Beverly Hills Cop (1990) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Beverly Hills Cop

Beverly Hills Cop is a video game developed by Tynesoft and published in 1990. The story is loosely based on the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop. The player controls Axel Foley in four distinct sub-games: a…

31 December 1990

What Beverly Hills Cop is

Beverly Hills Cop is an arcade game developed by Tynesoft and released in 1990. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Eddie Murphy became a star in the police film Beverly Hills Cop, and it was this license that Tynesoft used to create a game featuring four distinct sub-games, each of which can be practiced from the main screen in some versions. First Axel Foley visits a warehouse to shoot out some bad guys in a Green Beret-influenced sequence. The second level (first on the C64 version) involves driving after 3 lorries full of weapons, and shooting them out one by one, Chase HQ-style. Avoid contact and stay on the road to complete this. Next you must cross the grounds of a mansion, shooting anyone who gets in your way. The final section is set within the mansion, and is first-person 3D, although with few…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Beverly Hills Cop series

Beverly Hills Cop is the first of 2 entries we hold in the Beverly Hills Cop series. The next entry was Beverly Hills Cop in 2006.

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What it launched against

Beverly Hills Cop launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound and Colorado.

Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound, Colorado.

Beverly Hills Cop — frequently asked questions

When did Beverly Hills Cop come out?

Beverly Hills Cop was released on 31 December 1990 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and ZX Spectrum.

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