Techno Cop
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| Techno Cop | |
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| Developer(s) | Tony Porter, Gary Priest, Jon Harrison, Kevin Bulmer, Benn Daglish |
| Publisher(s) | Gremlin Graphics |
| Platform(s) | ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis |
| Release date | 1988 |
| Genre(s) | Run and gun |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Media | Cassette, floppy disk, cartridge |
Techno Cop is the title of a video game released in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. It was subsequently ported to the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990. The game play combined pseudo-3d driving in the graphical style of Outrun with side scrolling action as you controlled a police officer driving to and then moved through various seedy locations in a one-man war against crime. The game was notable for being the first game on the Genesis to have a warning label due to the 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.
[edit] Storyline
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 a third party developer and was part of an attempt by Razorsoft to test what sort of content would Sega allow on a game made for one of its systems.
[edit] Violent Content
Techno Cop was allowed to have blood in it, provided that it had a parental advisory label on the game's box. The violent content was when a police officer shot a criminal, with the criminal being blown apart. However, when Razorsoft tried to translate Stormlord, another one of its computer games, they were required to replace partial female nudity with partial - if provocative - attire.
