This footage, of the Genesis version of a game also destined for the SNES, Game Gear and Sega CD, was captured at the 1994 CES, and some of the problems - like an apparent freeze - can be explained by it being early code. Some of them.

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Remember, this is a licensed game that THQ cancelled.

Note however that while the Genesis/Mega Drive version was by all accounts trash, the SNES game was almost completely different (much like the Jurassic Park games), and sounded much more promising.

Cancelled Akira game [Unseen64]