Crack Down (Genesis)

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Description

At the beginning of the 21st century, a mad scientist by the name of Mr. K has created an army of artificial soldiers. He conquered the industrial city of Atlantis, and is now preparing to take over the world. The United Nations decided to retaliate by sending two of their top class Special Forces officers, Ben and Andy, infiltrate the city and destroy the enemy base using a newly developed time bomb--Sigma.

Crack Down is a time-limited action game. The two heroes, Ben and Andy, have to get through the levels as quickly as possible placing bombs on X marks scattered around the levels. Although the levels are heavily defended, the player has an array of weaponry including a cannon, machine gun, and superbombs.

The game may be played as either a one or two-player game.

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Alternate Titles

• "Crackdown" -- Copyright title
• "クラック ダウン" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Group

• Console Generation Exclusive: Sega Genesis

User Reviews

Set the bombs and get the hell out of there	Katakis | カタキス (42875)
Good fun but too short	BeaconBlue (17)

Critic Reviews

Mean Machines	Feb, 1991	84 out of 100	84
Raze	Aug, 1991	78 out of 100	78
Tilt	May, 1991	15 out of 20	75
Ação Games	Jun, 1991		75
Jeuxvideo.com	Jan 08, 2010	14 out of 20	70
Sega-16.com	Apr 17, 2008	7 out of 10	70
Power Play	Apr, 1991	65 out of 100	65
Sega Does	May 15, 2017	C+	58
Video Games	Mar, 1991	57 out of 100	57
SEGA-Mag (Objectif-SEGA)	Jun 30, 2008	4 out of 10	40

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Trivia

Amiga version

A mastering error on most copies of the Amiga version causes the final level to crash. A working version is preserved by the SPS project.

Copy protection

The manual had got words from the game ("Dockyard, Atari, Bio-bot", ...) printed on each of the four edges of each page. The copy protection scheme asked questions from these words.

Information also contributed by Martin Smith