Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]

Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth [Collector's Edition]

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Item Description

For more than a quarter of a century, Mad Stalker was one of the Mega Drive's great might-have-beens. Fill-In Cafe's mech brawler debuted on Japanese computers in 1994, a Mega Drive conversion was announced and previewed in Japanese magazines, and then it quietly vanished, reportedly because cartridge production costs were too high. It finally reached the Mega Drive in 2020 through Columbus Circle, and Strictly Limited Games brought it to Genesis players in the West soon after.

The setting is pure 90s anime. In the year 2142, a warship packed with mecha called SlaveGears is discovered after a war. Its onboard computer, Omega, awakens, jams Artemis City's networks and sends the rogue SlaveGear Rising Dog on a rampage. You pilot Hound Dog, the police mech sent to stop it, across six stages that each end with a boss.

What makes it stand out is how much fighting game is packed into its beat 'em up frame. Stages run on a single plane in the spirit of Kung-Fu Master and The Ninja Warriors, but Hound Dog has a double jump, two attack buttons that trade speed for power, grabs and throws, command-input special moves and a dash attack you can cancel into a guard. Take too many consecutive hits and you get dizzy, just as in a one-on-one fighter, and a Versus mode sets up one-on-one bouts against a friend or the computer. The original X68000 release earned strong reviews in its day and a Game of the Year nomination from Oh!X magazine.

There is a small piece of trivia baked into the title, too: the original release carried the subtitle Full Metal Forth, later corrected to Full Metal Force in subsequent versions, and this Genesis release keeps that quirky original name. It is a lost 16-bit game made real, the kind of release that sits proudly beside classic Genesis cartridges as proof that the library is still growing.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1994
Publisher
Family Soft
Developer
Fill-In Cafe
Players
Single player
About the game

Mad Stalker is Fill-In Cafe’s first attempt at a beat-em-up. Designed and programmed by Masatoshi Imaizumi and Masaki Ukyo, its systems are loosely similar to the Asuka 120% Burning Fest series, whose first entry was released later in 1994. There are three main versions: the X68000 and FM Towns games, developed by Fill-In Cafe themselves (the X68000 version has the subtitle Full Metal Forth, which was corrected to Full Metal Force in the FM Towns and later entries); the PC Engine CD port developed by Kogado; and the PlayStation version, again by Fill-In Cafe, which is more of a complete remake than a port. A conversion for the Mega Drive was in development and previewed, however it did not receive an official release to the public until Columbus Circle published it in September 2020.

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