Techno Cop is a video game released in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, MS-DOS and Atari ST. It was subsequently ported to the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990. The gameplay combines pseudo-3d driving in the graphical style of Outrun with side-scrolling action as the player controls a police officer driving to and then moved through various seedy locations in a one-man war against crime. The game was the first game ...
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Techno Cop is a video game released in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, MS-DOS and Atari ST. It was subsequently ported to the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990. The gameplay combines pseudo-3d driving in the graphical style of Outrun with side-scrolling action as the player controls a police officer driving to and then moved through various seedy locations in a one-man war against crime. The game was the first game on the Genesis to have a warning label due to its violent content.
The game was largely panned by video game critics for its simplistic graphics, sound, and the fact that many of the levels looked too similar.
In the single-player side-scrolling game you play a cop in a seedy futuristic urban city. Armed with a pistol you have to kill various thugs, before the timer runs out. While the game has several levels, the background in the game does not change that often.
Techno Cop was one of the first games made for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis from...
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