Lethal Weapon (video game)
Side-scroller on most platforms; light-gun shooter in the arcade.
A Master System version was developed by Probe Software but never released to the public.[1] The unreleased Master System version was based on the film Lethal Weapon 3.[2][1] Only the music composed by Jeroen Tel for the Master System version has been preserved; no playable ROM or other evidence of the game is known to exist online.[1][2]
Quick Facts
- Developer
- Ocean Software; Eurocom (NES/Game Boy)
- Publisher
- Ocean Software; Nintendo (Arcade)
- Composer
- Neil Baldwin (NES)
- Jeroen Tel (SMS)
- Barry Leitch (Amiga)
- Released
- 1992, 1993 (NES/Game Boy)
- Genre
- Action
- Modes
- Single-player
- Platforms
- Arcade
- Amiga
- Atari ST
- Commodore 64
- MS-DOS
- Game Boy
- NES
- Super NES
Facts from the source article.
How it changed
The Master System version was planned to launch alongside other platform versions.[1] Probe Software handled development for that unreleased port.[1] The SNES version received a 68% review score from Super Gamer Magazine.[3] Super Gamer Magazine published that review in May 1994.[4]
The Master System version’s music was composed by Jeroen Tel.[2] That music data is 32KB in size according to the Smspower.org record.[2] The music includes ten tracks such as Title, Level 1, and Game Over.[2] The game is listed as an unreleased license based on the movie.[2]
What the maker and period sources say
The Smspower.org record lists the Master System version as an unreleased game based on the film.[2] It describes the control method as a standard Control Pad.[2] The music entry credits Jeroen Tel as the composer for the Master System/PSG sound.[2] The SNES version received a 68% review score in Super Gamer Magazine, which was published by Paragon Publishing in May 1994.[3][4]
References
- Wikipedia, "Lethal Weapon (video game)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Lethal Weapon 3", Smspower.org (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Lethal Weapon 3", Smspower.org. facts only, no text reused. smspower.org
- Wikipedia, "Lethal Weapon (video game)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Lethal Weapon Review", Super Gamer, May 1994, p. 123 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Lethal Weapon Review", Super Gamer, May 1994, p. 123. facts only, no text reused. archive.org
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Lethal Weapon (video game) (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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