Time Trax
A side-scrolling action game based on the TV show of the same name. The player, as future cop Darien Lambert, must capture criminals that have escaped to 1993. A Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version was made…
Time Trax is a platform developed by Malibu Interactive, released 31 December 1994 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Time Trax is
Time Trax is a platform game developed by Malibu Interactive and released in 1994. It was published by Black Pearl Software. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A side-scrolling action game based on the TV show of the same name. The player, as future cop Darien Lambert, must capture criminals that have escaped to 1993. A Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version was made, completed, reviewed and set to be published by Black Perl Software but was canceled for unknown reasons by the publisher. Malibu would be sold to GameTek in the coming months which may explain its disappearance. A different Time Trax was released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and MSX in 1986. Notably this version was composed by Tim Follin.
How it plays
Its themes are action and science fiction.
What it launched against
Time Trax launched on 31 December 1994, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Mario Andretti Racing.
Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Mario Andretti Racing.
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