Iron Hammer

Iron Hammer is a Sega Mega Drive tank combat game developed by Novalogic. Originally developed for use with the Sega VR headset as one of the system's four launch titles, health concerns over exposing children to virtual reality resulted in all four games being shelved. However, Novalogic later stripped the game of its Sega VR features (namely its head-tracking capabilities) and eventually saw Iron Hammer broadcast by Sega of America over the Sega Channel in July 1996. The game features high-speed tank combat gameplay along a flat plane, similar to helicopter games like AH-3 Thunderstrike, or the developer’s later Sega Saturn title Black Fire. Piloting an attack aircraft through thirty levels of alien combat over terrains of water, ice, grass, and rock, players are assisted by the digitized speech of their co-pilot as they traverse a variety of battlefields. The original version of Iron Hammer would have featured the ability to play with or without Sega VR hardware.