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Cyber Police ESWAT

🏢 Sega R&D1 📅 01 Jan 1989 🎮 ESWAT
Sega's gritty cyberpunk action arcade classic, released in 1989, guiding police officer **Duke Oda** from rookie patrolman to mechanized exosuit **ICE Combat Armor** operative, wielding plasma cannons and rocket jetpacks to take down the crime syndicate E.Y.E. in Liberty City.

🎬 Deep Vision & Technical Analysis

🌆 Atmosphere & Visual Direction

Dystopian cyberpunk city of Liberty with neon skyscrapers, industrial factories, armored hover-tanks, and the mechanized ICE armor exosuit.

⚡ Action Pacing & Physics Engine

Side-scrolling pistol combat, police promotion ranking, ICE exosuit jetpack flying, and heavy plasma cannon blast clearing.

🎯 Performance & Launch Trajectory

Sega's stylish cyberpunk action arcade classic that combined Robocop-style mechanized police armor with explosive side-scrolling combat.

Cyber Police ESWAT (サイバーポリス イースワット) is a 1989 run and gun video game developed and published by Sega for arcades. The player controls Duke Oda, a member of the Liberty City Cyber Police Force tasked with finding and arresting the city’s most wanted criminals, and eventually dismantling a terrorist organization planning world domination. In 1990, Sega released a separate version for the Sega Genesis and Master System, known in North America as ESWAT: City Under Siege.

Gameplay

The gameplay is similar to Sega’s own Shinobi (1987), as the player has the ability to jump up and down between planes where possible. The goal of each of the game’s 15 stages is to find and arrest a specific wanted criminal, who is usually fought at the end of the stage as a boss. Duke is initially armed with only a single-shot pistol, but upon arresting the first three criminals and being promoted to ESWAT, Duke is equipped with a Power Suit with a mounted machine gun for the rest of the game. The suit also has access to limited-use special weapons which can be found within stages. However, both of Duke’s standard weapons require ammunition, without which the player can only attack with a kick. Additional ammunition can be found in boxes throughout each stage.

Hardware/conversion

The game was issued on Sega’s System 16-B which is built around the M68000 and uses a Z80 and a YM2151 for amplified mono sound generation. The System 16 pinout is not JAMMA compatible but JAMMA adaptors are available and fairly common. The game was released in a dedicated two player cabinet and also as a kit that contained the System 16 to JAMMA adaptor. Each player requires one start button, one joystick, and three action buttons (shoot, jump, special weapons). This game utilizes a standard resolution arcade monitor.

Reception

Computer and Video Games called the game a cross between NARC and RoboCop, but wrote that it “doesn’t quite have the flair of either”. Rating the game at 76% overall, they recommended only playing Cyber Police if they were bored with the two other games.

References

External links

  • Cyber Police ESWAT at the Killer List of Videogames
  • E-SWAT: Cyber Police at MobyGames