Arcade Video game published 43 years ago:

Cliff Hanger (c) 1983 Stern Electronics.

You are Cliff and your girlfriend Clarissa has been taken away by the evil Count Draco and will be forced to marry him unless Cliff can save her.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: Zilog Z80 Sound Chips: Custom, Discrete circuitry

Players: 2 Buttons: 2

- TRIVIA -

Cliff Hanger was released in December 1983. This was Stern's first laser disk game.

Cliff Hanger uses animation from the Japanese manga series, Lupin III. Most of the animation came from 'Lupin III - Castle of Cagliostro' and a couple of scenes, including the helicopter chase and the hanging scene came from 'Lupin III - Mystery of Mamo'.

Even though Cliff Hanger is adapted from Lupin the 3rd, it does change the names of the main characters: Lupin is renamed Cliff. Daisuke Jigen is renamed Jeff. Goemon Ishikawa is simply renamed Samurai.

Chip Sbronga holds the official record for this game with 1,310,000 points on August 11, 2003.

- STAFF -

Designed & Programmed By: Paul M. Rubenstein, Bob Kowalski, Jon Michael Hogan, Edward J. March Jr.

Player layout in our catalog: 2P alt.

If you are exploring by feel rather than by title, jump from the tags above into the matching genre rooms, or return to the Arcade hall for the full wall.

Open Play on this page to start Cliff Hanger (set 1). Keyboard, USB/Bluetooth pads, and the on-screen touch gamepad all work inside the emulator bar. Save states and fullscreen live on that same bar so you can pause mid-session and resume later.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P alt.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Platform, Arcade.