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Instruction booklet · November 1996

Sink or Swim

PuzzleESRB E

The story

S.S. Lucifer: Man Overboard! is a platform game released for the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Game Gear in 1994. Originally developed by Zeppelin Games for the Commodore Amiga, it was ported to Sega's consoles by Odysseus Software and published by Codemasters. Non-Sega versions of the game are called Sink or Swim, and the working title for the Sega versions was simply Man Overboard!.

Specifications

Released
November 1996
Developer
Zeppelin Games
Publisher
Titus Software
Genre
Puzzle
Rating
ESRB E

What the magazines said

No magazine scores on record yet.

BE KIND, REWINDNovember 1996
#1 songMacarena" (Bayside Boys Mix)Los del Río#1 albumRecovering the SatellitesCounting CrowsAdmit one · #1 movieRomeo + Juliet$11,133,231 weekend
Vol. 6 · No. 272Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢
The Omaha World-Pixel
Week of November 1, 1996
Nov. 5

U.S. presidential election, 1996: Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term. This election had the lowest voter turnout since 1924.

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