''Beverly Hills Cop'' is a video game developed by Tynesoft and published in 1990. The story is loosely based on the 1984 film ''

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''. The player controls

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in four distinct sub-games: a side-scrolling action game, a driving game, an overhead view shooter, and a first person shooter. The game was released on

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. The BBC version only contains the driving game.

Reception

The reviewers of ''

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'' thought the Commodore 64 version was not particularly well executed with "passable" graphics and sound, but provided "a lot of variety" making it "quite good value for money". The overall rating given was 68%. The game was also reviewed in the magazine ''The Games Machine''. They commented that the game's plot "bears absolutely no relation to the film storyline", the Commodore 64 version was graphically and sonically weak, and the Amiga and Atari ST releases were also poor, with an Axel Foley character that looked more like Daley Thompson. In 2006,

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''s Sebatianos reviewed ''Beverly Hills Cop'' with "All in all the game is OK, but the animation is far from smooth. You'll have problems reading the text, because it will shake too much and the animation (especially on level one) is very choppy."

References

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