Ports and Related Releases
The game was ported to the Game Boy Advance only in Europe on 11 September 2002, which was developed by Virtucraft and published by Sega. Although this version's music was also composed by Howard Drossin, fans criticised this port because of its music being very different from the Mega Drive's version. Also, while having a significantly smaller screen size that allowed much less on-screen, this was said to lessen the effect of seeing into the other frames around the player, making it more like a traditional platform game.
The game is also featured hidden within the Japanese version of Sonic Mega Collection and is an unlockable game in all versions of Sonic Mega Collection Plus, which is unlockable with having a Sonic Heroes game save, or is unlocked after starting all other Mega Drive games at least 50 times. The game is also part of the Sega Mega Drive Collection for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable.
On 29 January 2007, Comix Zone was released for the Wii's Virtual Console, and Xbox Live Arcade on 10 June 2009.
The game recently appeared in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection (for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) and on 06/03/2010 it was made available through Steam. It is also included in the Sega Mega Drive pack.
In August 2011 the game was made available for download on PlayStation Network as part of the SEGA Vintage Collection.
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