If you look up rare European titles for the Mega CD, or at least European exclusives for the Mega CD, one company comes to mind in both: Domark. Or to be more accurate, D0MARK. This was for 3 reasons:

• Two of the games were planned for a US release but cancelled
• All four of their games were released between late 1994 and 1995
• They were all shovelware titles

Especially the last point, all of the games were ports of Amiga or Megadrive games with music and in some cases FMV cutscenes being the only improvement/addition.

So as you can tell, I have one of them. Continue reading to see what it is.




Yep, my first game is Battle Frenzy, the German Variant of Bloodshot. What's odd about this one is that the seller had relisted this one several times, lowering the price of this one down quite a bit. I first saw this auction start at 60, then it got relisted to 40, then Buy it now for 25. Then I finally got it at the last 1 1/2 at 20. This was despite having pictures showing everything, the person having a good feedback score, and another person selling the exact same game, exact same condition for 100! But ah well, it's now in my hands and it's quite fun to play for an FPS.

MEGA CD FACT: This game actually has an interesting release history. It was first released in 1994 on the Mega Drive as Battle Frenzy, then in the same year for the Mega drive, it was rereleased as Bloodshot. Then in Europe it was ported to the Mega CD as Bloodshot, but strict German anti-violence laws (the same ones that gave us Probotector instead of Contra) meant in had to be released as Battle Frenzy, despite choosing any other language in game and it would be called Bloodshot.

Amount paid:
Battle Frenzy 20

Total paid: 411.08

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