| No Escape | |
|---|---|
 SNES box art | |
| Developer(s) | Bits Corporation |
| Publisher(s) | Psygnosis (Genesis) Sony Imagesoft (SNES) |
| Platform(s) | Genesis, Super NES |
| Release | Genesis
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| Genre(s) | Action, platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
No Escape is a video game developed by Bits Studios and published by Psygnosis for the Sega Genesis and by Sony Imagesoft for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, based on the film of the same name.
No Escape is a game in which the player is the inmate Robbins trying to escape the Absolom penal colony island. [1]
No Escape was developed by the British Bits Studios. Versions were made for the SNES and Sega Genesis. The game was programmed by Steve Howard, who also worked for the company on its SNES film tie-in games Terminator 2 and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . The three games share Howard's source code. [2] Frankenstein and the SNES edition of No Escape, which were produced simultaneously, were released by Sony Imagesoft. [3] [4] No Escape for the Genesis was published by Psygnosis. [5]
A Sega CD port was announced and advertised for release by Sony Imagesoft [6] [7] [8] but was cancelled. [9] Former producer Mike Arkin stated that it did not ship due to the Sony's realization the console was a failure. He claimed to have been gifted quite possibly the only physical copy of the Sega CD version of the game, but that he had misplaced it. [10]
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| AllGame |    (SNES/GEN) [11] [12] |
| GamePro | (GEN) [13] |
| Next Generation | (GEN) [1] |
| Electronic Games | C (GEN) [5] |
| VideoGames | 5/10 (GEN) [14] |
Next Generation reviewed the Genesis version of the game, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "the only way to escape the annoying gameplay, repetitive soundtrack, and frustrating control is to not get caught buying this game!" [1]
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