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Instruction booklet · October 1993

Cliffhanger

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

Standard side-scrolling fighter based off of the Stallone film of the same name. Sly must fight thugs and the elements as he tracks down suitcases of stolen cash dropped around the peaks of the Rockies. Combat follows the Final Fight standard, broken up by some mountain climbing and running (or 3-D snowboarding on the Sega CD) from avalanches.

Specifications

Released: October 1993
Developer: Malibu Interactive
Publisher: Sony Imagesoft
Players: 1
Genre: Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Rating: Pre-ESRB
Series: Cliffhanger
Themes: Action
View: Bird view / Isometric

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Players: 60/100 (8 ratings)

BE KIND, REWINDOctober 1993

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Vol. 3 · No. 111Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

The Omaha World-Pixel

Week of October 1, 1993

Oct. 3

A large-scale battle erupts between U.S. forces and local militia in Mogadishu, Somalia; eighteen Americans and over 1,000 Somalis are killed.

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