View Full Version : 32X - Virtual Hamster
garyfoo182
05-17-2005, 05:39 PM
http://www.q-design.com/examples/Games/Hamster.html
Check out what could have been.
rbudrick
05-17-2005, 06:30 PM
Damn thing coulda saved the 32X, I say.
Someone's really gotta do a hamster game...there's so many possibilities. Houdini acts from cages could be entire levels, then hamster ball levels, those little plastic tube cages could rock too, the list goes on.
We NEED a Hamster game.
-Rob
tholly
05-17-2005, 06:34 PM
wow...that 32x game looked pretty interesting....too bad the 32x died so quickly
Wavelflack
05-17-2005, 06:39 PM
Maybe they could tie it in to the Cho aniki universe..
"This isn't Virtual Hamster?! This is just a tunnel from Quake! Look at how brown everything is!
Oh wait.."
Lemmy Kilmister
05-17-2005, 06:42 PM
We NEED a Hamster game.
-Rob
Well there's plenty of Hamtaro games for the GBA.
I've actually emailed Mr. Quakenbush for an interview, to talk about Virtua Hamster, but haven't heard from him. Maybe I should bait him with some hamster treats or something. :P
MegaDrive20XX
05-17-2005, 08:39 PM
I've actually emailed Mr. Quakenbush for an interview, to talk about Virtua Hamster, but haven't heard from him. Maybe I should bait him with some hamster treats or something. :P
Or a maze of pipes with a bottle of water at the end?
This looks like a really awesome project that could have helped.
Look how popular Hamtaro is these days!
segarocks30
05-17-2005, 08:40 PM
That is the weirdest game and concept ive ever seen
Vroomfunkel
05-17-2005, 08:43 PM
IIRC, fishsandwich has a copy of this game in his collection, along with the unreleased X-Men 32X game. Either that, or they were just boxes in the pic and he is just taunting us all ...
Vroomfunkel
Slate
05-17-2005, 09:39 PM
That game could have saved the 32X. It looks very creative.
Doonzmore
05-17-2005, 10:12 PM
IIRC, fishsandwich has a copy of this game in his collection, along with the unreleased X-Men 32X game. Either that, or they were just boxes in the pic and he is just taunting us all ...
Vroomfunkel
Wow id sure love to see love to see pictures of these boxes. Why won't companies like Goat Store and GoodDealGames pick up the rights to this game?
I recall reading an article about this game in GamePro's Vapor Trail section years ago.
NeoZeedeater
05-17-2005, 11:57 PM
Well there's plenty of Hamtaro games for the GBA.
And this oldie too -
http://www.c64gg.com/Images/N/Ninja_Hamster_intro.gif
;)
rbudrick
05-18-2005, 09:35 AM
Why won't companies like Goat Store and GoodDealGames pick up the rights to this game?
The game was never actually finished. It was relatively early in its development, iirc. I forgot about Hamtaro. How are those games? Are they what a hamster game should be? LOL
Ninja Hamster...WTF? What was that for? Its not in the list...What's that game like?
-Rob
We NEED a Hamster game.
http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/images/packshots/hamsterball.jpg
Like this one? (http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/games/hamsterball.html)
hydr0x
05-18-2005, 10:07 AM
oh yeah, forgot about the Phoenix Games Monkey Ball clone LOL
doubledownon11
05-18-2005, 10:08 AM
I would have bought that game in a second had it been released.
sharp
05-18-2005, 10:30 AM
Why won't companies like Goat Store and GoodDealGames pick up the rights to this game?
The game was never actually finished. It was relatively early in its development, iirc. I forgot about Hamtaro. How are those games? Are they what a hamster game should be? LOL
Ninja Hamster...WTF? What was that for? Its not in the list...What's that game like?
-Rob
I think it also would be impossible to get the rights from Sega. I don't Sega will ever sell the rights of some of their completed, but not released games. I think also a lo of people would love to see an official release for games like Atlantis (32X CD), US-version of Darxide, Propeller Arena (DC). But we will never get them, as Sega will never let someone buy the rights for these games.
Ok If you are willing to pay a price for the games, which you can never get back from sales you maybe be able to get the rights, but noone is going to invest in releasing a game when they know they will never see their investment back.
rbudrick
05-18-2005, 11:20 AM
That Habitrail game looks just about what I was thinking. I wish they went with the 32x vibe of it looking like a real hamster rather than a mascot though. That thing doesn't even look like a hamster.
-Rob
NeoZeedeater
05-18-2005, 01:52 PM
Ninja Hamster...WTF? What was that for? Its not in the list...What's that game like?
It's for 8-bit computers(Spectrum, CPC, Commodore 64). Here's a review - http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/ninjahamster.htm
anagrama
05-18-2005, 02:41 PM
Has anyone played the ROM much? What exactly is playable?
segagamer4life
05-18-2005, 02:43 PM
Maybe they could tie it in to the Cho aniki universe..
"This isn't Virtual Hamster?! This is just a tunnel from Quake! Look at how brown everything is!
Oh wait.."
LOL.. man the CHO ANIKI series is sick, I still rememeber the first time I saw it on the saturn, thinking WTF?!?!!?!??!!? lol...
Vroomfunkel
05-18-2005, 08:01 PM
I think it also would be impossible to get the rights from Sega. I don't Sega will ever sell the rights of some of their completed, but not released games. I think also a lo of people would love to see an official release for games like Atlantis (32X CD), US-version of Darxide, Propeller Arena (DC). But we will never get them, as Sega will never let someone buy the rights for these games.
Ok If you are willing to pay a price for the games, which you can never get back from sales you maybe be able to get the rights, but noone is going to invest in releasing a game when they know they will never see their investment back.
Well, the rights to Darxide are not owned by Sega - they are owned by Frontier, the company that David Braben (of Elite fame) set up. But they won't release the rights either ... for the same reason that every game company won't. Handhelds.
THey have all seen the rights to early Atari games shoot up as all the games can get churned out again for mobile phones. With the current gen handhelds, and the next gen of phones coming up they are all slavering at the prospect of milking all their franchises again to basically get money for old rope.
And, in fact, Darxide has already seen one re-release. Darxide EMP was released for Palm computers several years ago.
Vroomfunkel