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Vapor Trails - On Famously Unreleased Videogames
Thanks to GamePro for its article discussing formerly in-development videogames which never actually got released. Some of the more unconventional include Data East's Tattoo Assassins ("2D video-captured fighters, whose tattoos come to life and whack on other players. Characters included a Nancy Kerrigan clone and a giant running hot dog"), Sega's Virtua Hamster ("...[involving] polygonal rodents with rocket packs and skateboards swooshing through a huge hamster habitrail, collecting popcorn kernels to spit at enemies"), and Runandgun!'s partially resurrected Duelin' Firemen! ("...[an FMV] game about singing, dancing firemen [starring Rudy Ray Moore].")
I think anything 3D Realms announces doesn't come out. Duke is an obvious choice but let's not forget Prey either...
But once it comes out, rest assured I will be playing it on my Glaze3D chip. Maybe they'll even port it to the Phantom!
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
...is actually available as a MAME ROM now.
I would love to know what they were smoking when they thought of that!
:"uugh I dunno dude" :"Hamsters man, just think about it dude.." :"crazeeee man"
Stoned Developer 1 : "uugh dude, (takes a deep puff..) do you know what there isn't enough of in games to day?"
Stoned Developer 2
Stoned Developer 1
Stoned Developer 2
It's hard enough to remember my opinions, never mind the reasons for them..
That's such a funny idea. I would have loved to see that.
Reminds me of "Battle Hamster" http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3403
go for the eyes boo, GO FOR THE EYES!
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
What sick twisted mind came up with this?
Just watch the video...
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Why not list Half-Life for Dreamcast or Macintosh? What about Thrill Kill for PS1?
(Okay, Thrill Kill made it out in various forms - I still have my copy - but it wasn't ever "officially" released.)
Malice was one of the titles used to show of the power of the XBox before it was released . If you paid attention to the XBox hype, chances are you saw some Malic screenshots.
It was widely expected to be a release title in fact. But here 3+ years latter, no release date ia availibe, the Official webpage no longer exists, and we've heard nothing from Argonaut Games in the last year or so.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned WarCraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. It was to be Blizzard's first adventure game, but was cancelled as a nearly complete game. Oh well, at least the story is now available as a novel. And it is part of WarCraft official cannon, as it plays into the setup of WarCraft III.
Intelligent responses welcome, flames will be met with marshmallows.
Don't forget about the ill-fated Fallout 3...t ml 6 20.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/fallout3/petition.h
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/fallout3/news_6085
and XCom, I don't know how many times this project has been canned and then resurected again 2 years later...
http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~xcom/x6x1.shtml
http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~xcom/x8x1.shtml
These are the two biggies for me...
Check out . They are doing something similar to this and finding the people who worked on some of these abandoned projects and finding out what happened from the inside.
If I had to pick one piece of vaporware I'd want to be able to play, this would be it. It was a bunch of screwed-up mini-games, including this one where you have to drive from somewhere to Las Vegas in a tour bus. I remember reading a preview for it in Video Games (aka the best gaming mag ever); a couple of the staff members actually took turns playing the tour bus game for like eight hours before they accidentally wrecked and ruined all their "progress."
Rob
The ROMs are out there, it's just a matter of getting them leaked.
Don't you mean a matter of getting them dumped?
I recall a few years back (before CPS2 encryption was cracked) someone started posting to some Mame dev boards saying that he owned a MarbleMan cabinet. Once someone asked him how much he would want for such a thing, he quoted some absurd figure.
That didn't discourage the Mame fans, though. They started a collection to reach the mark (I think it was $10,000), and were making serious progress before he decided he wouldn't sell.
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Polybius is one game that I've always wanted to see surface some day... any game that was written by the military/CIA/(insert conspiracy theory here) and can give people amnesia and horrible nightmares has got to be one hell of a game!!
Sadly, I think it's actually been proven to be a hoax.
-"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -EH
I seem to remember reading about this great game for the NES called Doki Doki Panic... Man I wonder whatever happend to that game?
Too bad the world will never see Full Throttle 2. Lucasarts axed it because it did not meet their high quality standards. Also, the actor who voiced the protagonist Ben passed away a year or two ago. Shame. The original was a cool, cool game.