Techno Cop is a 1988 action video game for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS ( the version we have here ) and ZX Spectrum. The gameplay combines pseudo-3D driving in the graphical style of Outrun with side-scrolling action as the player controls a police officer driving to and then moved through various seedy locations in a one-man war against crime. It was subsequently ported to the Sega Genesis in 1990 but the game was the first game on the Genesis to have a warning label due to its violent content.
In the single-player side-scrolling game the player is a cop in a seedy futuristic urban city. Armed with a pistol, the player has to kill various thugs, before the timer runs out. While the game has several levels, the background in the game does not change often.
The other half of the game is a driving sequence, similar to other computer games such as Roadblasters.
The other half of the game is a driving sequence, similar to other computer games such as Roadblasters.
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The Screenshots above are from the PC version of the game
The PC version of the game came on two floppy diskettes
Both Nintendo of America and Sega of America insisted upon previewing games made for their system, prior to release, to check for bugs and potentially controversial or offensive content. Sega allowed Techno Cop to be released without requiring Razor Soft to remove or tone down the game's violent content. Along with the blood, when the playable character shot at another character, they would be blown apart, not unsimilar to Death Wish 3 on C64.
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