“The Rebellion’s Over! Your Mission: Terminate the Rebels of Hollerith. Your Role: You are the latest in Cyborg Technology. You are… a Cyber Cop & The Rebels are Ready for You.”
That is the starting description of Cyber Cop, a rather obscure title from Pedersen Systems (who are funnily the company established by Roger Pedersen, who did other titles). We don’t know much about how the game was to play, but the advert continues to describe the game as follows:
- Fast Action Arcade Adventure
- Full Spectrum Colour Animation
- 3-D Spritable Characters
- Life-like Battle Environments
- Plays in 3 domains: Atmospheric, Geosphere and Aquatic
- Realistic Sound Effects
- Quick Manual Response
- Choice of Play Longevity VS Higher Point Scores
This is pretty much it… we have a scan for the advert, but nothing about the game itself really as of yet. We hope to find out more from Roger at some point in the future.
Thanks to LiqMatrix, we learn that the PC edition was saved – and on the MobyGames entry – it states that due to the PC version only selling 3000 copies, all other editions were never converted to other platforms. It isn’t clear if anything was ever actually started or not.
Do you know any more?
Contributions: Peter Weighill, LiqMatrix, retromags.com
This was found and cataloged at MobyGames: https://www.mobygames.com/game/221653/cyber-cop/
Also, PixelatedArcade left a review: https://www.pixelatedarcade.com/news/cyber-cop
Hopefully, one day, “Zombies, Undead Or Alive” can also be found.
Thanks LiqMatrix – although this entry in particular is for the Commodore 64 edition, the Mobygames entry seems to confirm it was cancelled after poor sales of the PC edition. Great to see it saved at least on the PC, and fingers crossed for Zombies, Undead or Alive!
Ah, yes, sorry about that. Considering the DOS version was impossible to find as well, it’s all good news I suppose. Yeah, I’ve only seen CGA screenshots of the game in advertisements. I’d be surprised if this game ever got started on any other platform.