Red Zone is a video game developed by Zyrinx

Zyrinx

Zyrinx was a video game developer founded in 1992 in Copenhagen, Denmark.The first game developed by Zyrinx was Subterrania for the Sega Mega Drive. During the development the team relocated to Boston. Later, the team developed the games Red Zone and Scorcher. Zyrinx's 3D rendering technology was...

 and published by Time Warner Interactive in 1994 for the Sega Genesis console.

A pre-release version of this game - Hardwired - has been deemed by the (now defunct) developer as publicly distributable.

Plot

Madman Ivan Retovitz rips off an arsenal of Soviet nuclear weapons and threatens to transform the world into a radioactive desert. As the leader of three covert commandos, you must pilot the AH-64B Apache fighter chopper and traverse the underground bunkers to destroy this nuclear madman.

Software attributes

The game, although obscure, is notable for using a number of technologies that were not normally prevalent at the time on a console such as the Megadrive/Genesis.