Games That Could Have Been

Gamespot, to accompany a piece on the art of pitching a game has up a companion article on a few good pitches from talented developers that never quite made it into games. My favorite of the three, from Will Wright: "I've always been fascinated with airships, and I wanted to do a game about the Hindenburg. And it was originally conceived as a cross between Myst and a flight simulator, if you can imagine that. You basically wake up on the Hindenburg. You're all alone. It's flying toward Lakehurst, New Jersey. You can walk anywhere on the ship. You can turn lights on and off. You can steer. You can adjust the engines. But every time you come into Lakehurst, it blows up. And you have to figure out why, and it becomes like this weird mystery flight simulator thing. I'd still love to do that."

Comments

A blimp joke

[Altus]

Whats the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?

Ones a flaming Nazi gasbag and the other is a dirigible.

Re:Nnamtsreg

[Chibi Merrow]

but we shouldn't forget the apartment policy (of at least willingness) of censorship

Words have meaning. This was definitely a case of complete asshattery by a business, but it was not censorship.