Creative Cat Productions | X-Women was supposed to be released for the Sega Genesis at the end of 1996 @creativecatproductions | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Clockwork Tortoise, a company with only one game credit, was slated to release X-Women by the Christmas of 1996. It was an action game where you could play as the three main heroines from the X-Men: Jean Grey, Storm, and Rogue…..with a heavy emphasis on flying mechanics. The game was officially called X-Women the Sinister Virus and featured a story wherein the male X-Men are all incapacitated by some sort of malicious virus. But thankfully, women are unaffected and so the girls have to save the day!
The game was featured in video game magazines at the time, with a few marginal references here and there, but the big debut would be at E3 1996 where the game had a kiosk at the SEGA pavilion which showed off some gameplay footage…..which, in fact, looked very nice.
Sadly, 1996 was a bit late in the game, and attention was squarely on the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation at this point of time so coverage was never that copious. Further, Clockwork Tortoise went out of business during development after missing a number of deadlines…..SEGA quietly defunded the project and Clockwork Tortoise was no more.
No surviving proto-type of the game is known to exist, but it’s fun to think of what could have been.
This is an excerpt from our video: Rise of the X-Men. Check it out here on YouTube!
- CCP Management
Clockwork Tortoise, a company with only one game credit, was slated to release X-Women by the Christmas of 1996. It was an action game where you could play as the three main heroines from the X-Men: Jean Grey, Storm, and Rogue…..with a heavy emphasis on flying mechanics. The game was officially called X-Women the Sinister Virus and featured a story wherein the male X-Men are all incapacitated by some sort of malicious virus. But thankfully, women are unaffected and so the girls have to save the day!
The game was featured in video game magazines at the time, with a few marginal references here and there, but the big debut would be at E3 1996 where the game had a kiosk at the SEGA pavilion which showed off some gameplay footage…..which, in fact, looked very nice.
Sadly, 1996 was a bit late in the game, and attention was squarely on the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation at this point of time so coverage was never that copious. Further, Clockwork Tortoise went out of business during development after missing a number of deadlines…..SEGA quietly defunded the project and Clockwork Tortoise was no more.
No surviving proto-type of the game is known to exist, but it’s fun to think of what could have been.
This is an excerpt from our video: Rise of the X-Men. Check it out here on YouTube!
- CCP Management
