- The Sega (Mega) CD version of the game was a port of the PC Engine version, but was made specifically for the western market with localized text and dialogue. As a result, a few additions and changes were made to the game to make it more marketable. -The date of the Catastrophe was moved five years ahead of the original Japanese version from 1991 to 1996 to make the storyline up to date for western audiences unfamiliar with the original version at the time. As a result, all the other dates mentioned in the game were moved five years ahead as well to keep them consistent. -A new scene is added to the opening intro where Gillian reveals to Jaime that he had become a Junker. The scene was taken from the prologue manga (comic book) that was included in the game's manual, but the Sega CD version is the only version where the scene is rendered in-game with full voice acting. -Many keywords and names were changed. Joy Division (the black market store) became Plato's Cavern. Alphaville (Neo Kobe's computer network) became Alpha-One, the Tricycle (the flying vehicle) became a Turbocycle and so on. -Several graphics and scenes were redrawn or changed. The outfit Katherine (Katrina) wears when Gillian first meet her is different, Jean-Jack's torso is facing front when his headless body is shown, Elijah Madnar's potrait in the church was changed to look more like Tomiharu Kinoshita's artwork of the character (as a result, all of his flashback scenes in the game were redrawn to feature him with long hair). The naked snatchers's eyes were changed from red to green (to avoid copyright infringement with the Terminator films) and light brown highlights were added to their bodies, giving then a more detailed appearance.
- Many of Gillian's lewd sexual comments and actions (including a scene with a porno tape) were edited out from the Sega CD version. Moreover, Katherine's age was changed from 14 to 18 due to the fact she had a nude shower scene in the game (in the very same scene, Gillian's head obscure the player's view of Katherine's behind and her breast were redrawn to give them a more mature appearance).
- The exposed breast of the Lisa Nielsen snatcher is covered-up in the Sega CD version and Alice (the dog) no longer twitches during her death. -A puzzle which requires the player to input Katherine's measurements was changed to simply pinpointing the shape and location of Katherine's birthmark. -A few new angles were added to certain scenes. This include a close-up of Gillian's apartment and new shots during the scene with Elijah Madnar. -The Sega CD version is the only version of the game that was compatible with a light gun. It supports the Justifier light gun which came with the Lethal Enforcer game. -The clientele at Outer Heaven were changed from parodies of popular sci-fi characters like Cornelius, Guyver and C3PO in the previous version to Konami characters like Simon Belmont (from Castlevania) and Goemon from the Mystical Ninja series. -More puzzles were added to Act 3 and a few new shooting scenes were included prior to meeting with Jaime. As a result, you can actually shoot Jaime when you reach her and get a Game Over. -And finally, a new scene featuring Mika and Katherine meeting Gillian and Jaime was added to the ending, filling a few of the plot holes left in the Japanese version.
- In 1996, to capitalize on the release of Policenauts, Konami reissued Snatcher for the PlayStation and Saturn. The 32-bit versions were a bit more faithful to the original PC Engine, but also included elements from the Sega CD among other changes. -Some of the scenes are now rendered in CG, including the meeting with Gillian and Jaime in the game's opening (but there are no dialogue in that scene). -Mika and Katherine are added to the game's ending like in the Sega CD version, but they have no lines (since they couldn't bring back the original Japanese voice actors to do the new scenes).
- The clientele in Outer Heaven also consist of Konami characters, but most of the characters had been replaced. -The more violent scenes in the game were toned down. The scene with Gibson's decapitated head now scrolls up to obscure the player's view of the head and the rotting skull in the morgue is now covered with mosaic. Alice the dog no longer has her organs exposed when she dies. Lisa Nielsen's breast is covered up as well. The two shooting sequences in Act 3 from the Sega CD were placed you reach the room with the finished snatcher (not after like in the Sega CD version).
- The PC Engine version, originally released in 1992, was the first version of the game on a home console after the original computer versions in 1988. The main differences between them and the PC Engine, besides the improved audio and visuals, were the addition of voiceovers to the cut-scenes and a new third act not in the original versions. The orignal PC versions concluded the game at Act 2, giving the game a much darker ending than the developers originally intented. Act 3 was always meant to be included in the original versions, but was left out due to time constraint (a prototype version of Act 3 was included in SD Snatcher, an RPG spinoff of the original Snatcher). The PC Engine version has the full title of "Snatcher CD-ROMantic" due to the fact that it was the first version to utilize the CD-ROM storage media (prior versions of the game were made in floppy disk format). Prior to the release of the full PC Engine version, a demo of the game was released known as the "Pilot Disk". The Pilot Disk includes a playable demo of the first few scenes (with a few differences from the retail version).
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