Comix Zone ROM

Comix Zone is a 2002 beat ’em up game developed by Virtucraft and published by Sega for the Game Boy Advance and is a port of the 1995 Sega Genesis game of the same name. Set within the panels of a comic book, it follows the comic writer/artist Sketch Turner as he attempts to escape the pages of his own work. The game sees players traversing six levels, each with multiple branching pathways, where they must defeat enemies and solve puzzles in order to progress. Comix Zone is set in a comic book of the same name.

The comic centers around a post-apocalyptic Earth ravaged by alien invaders and each level is set in a different part of the world. The locations the player visits include a decimated New York City, the Himalayas and the atolls of Zealand. Humans still roam the Earth alongside aliens, whom they want to rid from the planet. Mutants, who despise both humans and aliens, wish to eradicate both species so that they can rule the planet undisputed. One night during a thunderstorm while working on Comix Zone, a panel of Sketch’s comic is hit by a lightning bolt, causing the book’s main villain, Mortus, to escape its pages.

Desiring a physical form in the real world, Mortus sends Sketch into the comic in the hopes of killing him and receiving a body in the process. Upon arriving in the comic Sketch is met by Alissa, who believes that Sketch is a chosen one who came to save her post-apocalyptic world. Sketch disputes this fact but goes along with it as he goes on Alissa’s mission and attempts to find a way out of his comic. After traveling the world for a while, Sketch and Alissa reach a weapons factory containing a nuclear weapon hidden on a derelict ship.

As Alissa attempts to defuse the weapon, Mortus comes back into the comic and throws her into a chamber that slowly fills with liquid. Sketch battles against Mortus and his minions and comes out triumphant. He then frees Alissa from her confines and escapes the comic with her just as the weapon self-detonates. Now in the real world, Alissa enlists in the army and is eventually promoted Chief of Security for the United States. Sketch’s comic becomes the best-selling comic book ever, selling out on the first day and making him a celebrity overnight.

Alissa moves in with Sketch and the two live happily together. Comix Zone is a beat ’em up game set in the pages of a comic book. There are six levels, or pages, in total and each one has multiple branching paths within them. In levels, Sketch Turner, the player character, must defeat enemies and solve puzzles in order to progress. Enemies can be defeated by simply punching or kicking, while jumping or not, or by tearing off a part of the page and throwing it back as a paper plane, which causes Sketch’s health to deplete and has the chance to hit him instead.

Sketch’s health is shown via a life bar, which depletes if he is hit by an enemy or hits/attacks an obstacle; when it depletes completely or Sketch falls down a pit the game ends. This can be counteracted however if Sketch completes two levels, which grants a continue, or he uses a healing item. Up to three items can be stored at a time and can be found by using Roadkill, a rat and himself an item, to peel back a part of the page. Items can either help defeat enemies and obstacles or heal Sketch’s life bar.