Woody Pop for the SEGA Master System. It was a Breakout clone and one of the "Coming Soon!" titles listed on those insert flyer posters that I wanted desperately when I was a kid, but it was never released. There was a Game Gear version though, years later...but that's not what I wanted.
Because somehow it hasn't been mentioned yet... Shenmue III.
Sadness for the Wii. It looked like a cool horror game In the style of Dragons Lair, but it was really difficult to tell what the game was about from the videos that were release. Unfortunately the developer tanked an the game went unfinished.
Golgo 13 for N64.
There was a small preview for it in Nintendo Power but was never released. There's gotta be a proto out there somewhere. Loved the NES games and it would be nice to play a new G13 action game instead of all these stupid 'graphic adventure' games that get released in Japan.
And I'd give anything to play the Twin Peaks game for NES. THQ (I think) was working on it but I don't know how far into production it got and have never seen any screens.
Legions of the Undead for the Atari Jaguar - a zombie-killin' first person RPG using the Alien vs. Predator engine? Sign me up!
T-Mek for the Jaguar. I'm tired of having only the 32X version to play, especially considering that device's flakiness along with that version's slowdown problems.
Dead Rush for the PS2/GC/Xbox/GBA. Activision killed this one off after putting out a good trailer that really got me interested. I love vehicular combat games, and this one is a car-based zombie killing game that looked seriously promising. But I guess Activision wasn't doing well financially, so they cancelled it stating that they couldn't see it selling as big as Halo, so why bother.
I've got loads more, I just can't think of them off the top of my head this morning.
Woody Pop had been released in Japan and supports the Japanese only paddle controllers.Originally Posted by Emperor Megas
Woody Pop for the SEGA Master System. It was a Breakout clone and one of the "Coming Soon!" titles listed on those insert flyer posters that I wanted desperately when I was a kid, but it was never released. There was a Game Gear version though, years later...but that's not what I wanted.
Paddle support, too? Pshhh, man...that's even worse.
I really wanted that game when I was a kid, so even tracking down the Japanese version would be a moral victory at this point.
The Magic of Scheherazade 2
Everything in the above post is opinion unless stated otherwise.
Sonic Xtreme
Air Nights
Streets of Rage IV (DC)
There was going to be a Lufia game for the Megadrive?!
I reject your reality and substitute it for one of my own!
Yep, ads were running in EGM back in '94. Still remember the ad clear as day. Plain black background ad with Lufia title in front center toward the top. Well, maybe not clear as day, heh, but yeah. Huh... I didn't know it never came out, though!
As for me, I would have liked to have seen a sequel to LTTP for SNES. Not sure one was ever planned (hence canceled or unreleased) but yeah. Imagine a 32-meg Zelda game in '95 with all the latest in SNES technology trimmings... good stuff!
The Twin Peaks game for NES , but to be honest I don't think they ever even started it .Would also like to see if the Friday the 13th game for the Sega CD got off the ground . The game that most likely was at least started that I would like to try would be the Snake Plissken/Escape from NY game .
Just a port of the original. But it was supposed to have a bunch of added features. They took out ads for it, with the original slated release (Nov. '94 or something) crossed off and the new delayed release written above it (May '95 or so), and proclaiming "It's worth the wait!"
I'd love to see Kaboom and River Raid for the Super Nintendo.
And I'd love to see Test Drive Rally for the Nintendo 64 from DICE (Who went on shortly after cancellation to start work on RalliSport Challenge for the Xbox and PC). Seemed to be shaping up nicely in screenshots and previews.
Warcraft Adventures.
A ROM has been released for it but I would have tracked down and purchased an official copy of Space Fantasy Zone had it been released.
Lemme think of some others....
Curse for the Genesis. I remember as a kid seeing the 2-page spread of the whole Genesis Does What Nintendon't and seeing the pic for Curse: Quest for the Solar Grail. I dunno why but I was sold on the subtitle alone. There was another game due by Sage's Creation that I can't remember the name to, either Blue's Odyssey or Star Odyssey.
I don't remember what year it was but I was at E3 in '97 and '98 and remember seeing a game for PS1 called Popcorn. I don't know if it got renamed or canceled, but it was a decent title from what I saw of it.
I really wish Mario Kart Arcade GP 1 and 2 got home releases. I would second the Capcom Fighting All-Stars. The game didn't look bad at all, not sure why it got canned. What they ought to do is make Ingrid a DLC for SSF IV.
I need to pick my brain some more and post again later. I KNOW there's more that I'm just not thinking of at the moment.
"Ai Oboete Imasu Ka?"
Goldeneye XBLA.
I believe that Curse was released in Japan. I was always interested in it since it was going to be put out by INTV, the owners of the post-crash Intellivision. But the company died off before they could bring it over.
I'll add a "vote" for Super Mario 64 2. If I recall there was a screenshot of a split-screen mode with Mario and Luigi. What a shame that never saw the light of day, or even something similar in the Galaxy games.
I would have also liked to see the GB Camera option released with Perfect Dark. Today that option is not that big of a deal, but back then I thought that was the coolest option ever. Then they cut it from the final version.
Could you mean this picture?
I've seen it before when SM64 2 was refereed too, but it's a fake. That level is in SM64. If there is a real pic, i'd LOVE to see it.
Yes, to this day do I wait for a game with the features they proposed.
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Yeah, I really wished that Space Fantasy Zone had been officially released as well. I have a burned copy, but I'm a huge fan of both Space Harrier and the FZ series and would have loved to own a retail copy.
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