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I'm not talking games that were started or even finished and just released like Dreamcast Propellor Arena or Atari 5200 Tempest... I'm talking no-brainer games that were never started or possibly never even contemplated.
SUB-ROC is a good example. It began life in 1982 as a fairly popular arcade game (the first 3-D game?) and had a substandard port for the Colecovison released. Sega released the Master System and it's awesome 3-D glasses a few years later, but the closest they got to Sub-Roc for the SMS was the shitty Poseiden Wars. I know that Sub-Roc was a bit old at this point, but lots of old games got released for the NES. This game was a NATURAL for the 3-D glasses and had name recognition! How about a Super Sub-Roc or Sub-Roc 2?
WARHAWK 2. Where was the sequel for the original Playstation? The first game game was a big seller (and maybe even a system-seller) when it first came out. What happened? Two Twisted Metal games and a clone using the same engine got you tired?I hear there's a sequel in the works... 11 years too late!
DAYTONA USA 2 or even SCUD RACER? Seriously... the Dreamcast got loads of racers (including a few that no one had ever heard of) as well as an enhanced version of the original Daytona, but no Daytona 2? That might have moved a few more systems.
THE LOST WORLD. I'm talking about the gun shooter, not the fairly smelly side-scroller for the Saturn and PSX. I saw the arcade game in quite a few movie theatres, but not on the Dreamcast. Were licensing fees so high that they couldn't get it out the door to augment House of the Dead 2? Crappy Sega... didn't even release a Sega-branded gun for the DC in the States! LA MACHINE GUNS would have been another good one. Maybe they just didn't want to mess with Model 3 conversions?
SUPER ZAXXON should have been a natural for the SMS. Seriously. I know it came out for the Commodore 64, but where was the Master System port? The 32x got a (shitty) Zaxxon game (Motherbase 2000) but not the Master System? Was Zaxxon 3-D enough? Only 47 people bought that game anyway. It played nothing like the original to boot.
Super Zaxxon Arcade
Super Zaxxon C-64 version
Zaxxon 3-D for SMS
WING WAR didn't make much of a splash in arcades, but Sega ported all the other Model 1 arcade games to the 32x (Star Wars Arcade, Virtua Racer, and Virtua Fighter... Tecwar was just a demo), so why not this one? At least it had better name recognition than Shadow Squadron/Stellar Assault (fantastic game, BTW.)
WAVE RUNNER. Ok, ok, this used a special controller... a moving seat shaped like a waverunner! But the Saturn sure could have used some ammunition against the Nintendo 64 in 1996, especially when Wave Race 64 came out and knocked everyone's socks off. The Saturn could do a respectable Model 2 conversion, after all... VF2 and Sega Rally proved that. How about TOP SKATER too? OK... that controller was extra-special.
GUNBLADE NY was a no-brainer for the Saturn. I mean, there were enough Stunner Guns out there with the decent sales of Virtua Cop 1 and 2, so why not this cool gun game?
JAMBO! SAFARI would have been great on the Dreamcast, and it was a regular Naomi game so a conversion would have been easy. I know the controller is again pretty special, but the DC pad could have done it. Maybe the DC was just too dead. Looks a lot like Crazy Taxi to me...
SUPER MARIO 64 Part 2 is possibly the biggest offender on this list. I mean, the original game was a LAUNCH TITLE, the BEST-SELLING game EVER of the N64, and one of the top-20 best-selling games OF ALL TIME? Maybe even top 10? Yet Nintendo never did a sequel. Almost 5 years, no damn sequel. I mean, there were cetianly enough 3-D platformers on the N64 plus Nintendo had Rare in their pocket back then, but certainly they could have delayed that shit Yoshi's Story game and the mediocre Kirby's Crystal Shards and worked on a proper sequel for their system seller? Nintendo gave us Pokemon out the ass three Mario Parties, but not this one? Lame I say. No N64 Metroid was lame, too. I won't even go into Earthbound. STUPID!!!
Anyone else have any no-brainers?