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Hoppin Mad [NES – Unreleased]

Some time ago, mrmark0673 from the Digital Press Forum, found a working prototype of Hoppin Mad, an unreleased NES game developed by Elite. It seems that the game is a remake of a game that was previusly released on old PCs (C64, Spectrum, Amstrad), but with different levels. Later an article about the game was published on Nintendo Age with some better screens from the 3 playable levels.

If you would like to play the gam, you can download Hoppin Mad from here! Thanks a lot to Mr Mark for the contribution!

For more info: Unseen Interviews: Mr. Mark & Hoppin Mad

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Bomberman Hero (Ultra Genjin) [N64 – Test Map]

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In the Youtube Channel of runehero124 there’s a video from a nice Bomberman Hero test-map. From the description we read that: “This code was originally discovered by Icy Guy from the RareWitchProject forums. So give him full credit. I rediscovered it a couple years later, but noticed that it had been found before.”

From an interview at GDRI we found out the design of Bomberman Hero is an adaption of the concepts for the cancelled Ultra Genjin:

GDRI: What happened with Ultra Genjin [N64]?

Ultra Genjin was being planned during the game industry’s transition from 2D to 3D games. I studied the practical aspects of this quite a bit, but I think that nobody really knew what should be done with games at the time. As a result of trial and error, we were able to adapt the design for Ultra Genjin to Bomberman Hero.

A little more information about Ultra PC Genjin directly from Shouichi Yoshikawa site:

ULTRA PRIMITIVE MAN (UNFINISHED)
PLATFORM N64/ 32M ROM (HUDSON/ Project stop )
MY TERM JUNE 1995. to DEC. 1995.
MY CHARGE Planning & 3D Graphic tool mastering
CONTENT After the project stop, this planning was transfered to “BOMBERMAN HERO”

Thanks to Celine for the contribution!

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Moonlight Fables [DS – Cancelled]

Moonlight Fables is a cancelled side-scrolling action-adventure game, exclusively for the DS, that was slated for release in 2005 by Majesco. Designed by Cyber Philharmonic Video Game Design, the game was going to feature touch-screen input, use of the DS’s two screens and “multiplayer network play” (according to official publicity). Whether this refers to online play, or simply close-range wireless play, is not specified. While an action-adventure, the game would also have tasked the player with different puzzles to solve.

The game was gothic-fantasy-themed, and featured 19-year-old werewolf and Officer School For International Strike Forces graduate Trista Silver. Interestingly, the game was planned to have all of its levels merged into one giant area, allowing seamless movement between sections. It was going to include a range of weapons to master, including the mystical Moon Sword, various types of blaster and the player’s own werewolf teeth and claws. Quite an impressive visual arsenal was in the works, which boasted such features as a blend of 2D and 3D art styles, and a dynamic camera that zoomed in and panned around to highlight specific events.

Although Moonlight Fables was one of the first titles announced for the DS by a western publisher, it went through a major developmental overhaul mid-production. After these major changes, Majesco re-evaluated the game, and took it off their release list. It has since been officially cancelled.

The original website for the game can still be accessed via the Internet Archive.

Article by Franklint

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Jungle Bots [N64 – Cancelled]

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A cancelled FPS game for the Nintendo 64, with animal-robots. Jungle Bots was meant to be published by  Titus  and developed by Conceptual Realities / Navigator Entertainment. It seems that the game was never completed and was canceled in mid-development by Titus. The development was pretty tricky, the polygon and texture budgets were extremely limited due to the cartridge format and the target ROM size was only 32 MB.  The company that was working on the game had never made a game before and previously they had  only designed and built theme park attractions. The staff wasn’t really prepared for the game making process and some wrong decisions by management ultimately caused the company to have to shut down and the entire staff was laid off.

Thanks a lot to gilgamesh for these screens and informations and to Vaettur for the logo!

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Dirt Racer / Dune Buggies [SNES – Beta/Tech Demo]

ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a lot for your help! :)

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Thanks to MathUser for the scans!

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