New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

Nintendo, SNES + Super Famicom

Kunio-kun Kart [SNES – Cancelled / Concept]

Celine
05-08-2012
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Kunio-kun is a famous series developed by Technos Japan and it was their mascot in Japan. Despite the first game was a beat’em up, soon Technos used the characters for games in other kind of genres, even puzzle games. The most well known Kunio-kun spin off were those concerning sport games ( dodge ball, beach volley, football, basket, hockey, baseball ), always presented through Kunio-kun crazy and not-so-serious atmosphere the series is known for.

Yoshihisa Kishimoto, one of the main men behind Kunio-kun, revealed on his site how a go-kart racing game starring Kunio for Super famicom was in a preliminary phase in early ’90. The idea probably sprung after witnessing Super Mario Kart huge success on the platform. Unfortunately it seems the game never went into production and soon after ( 1996 to be exact ) the japanese developer declared bankruptcy.

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Microsoft, Others, PC / MAC, Xbox

The Bloody Magic [XBOX – Cancelled]

monokoma
01-08-2012
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The Bloody Magic is an RPG that was in development by Sky Fallen Entertainment in 2003, for the original XBOX. In the game we would have been able to play as a magician, with more than 12 different specialized fields of magic, to fight the bad guy or to join him to destroy the world. Multiplayer was planned too, with coop and versus.  The game was later released as “Dawn of Magic” on PC, but the XBOX version was cancelled.

Thanks to Markgreyam for the contribution!

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Featured, Microsoft, Xbox

Time Crisis Adventure [Xbox – Cancelled]

U64 Staff & Contributors
28-07-2012
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Time Crisis Adventure is a cancelled Xbox game pitch that started at Darkworks in 2003 after Capcom abandoned their other project, Lost Mantis. Time Crisis Adventure was a collaborative work with Namco US. In 2004, for unknown reasons, Namco dropped the title. However, Darkworks found a new publisher (Ubisoft) and it seems that they changed the game to release it as Cold Fear on both PS2 and Xbox in 2005 – with no references to the Time Crisis franchise.

Thanks to Warkdo for the contribution!

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Saturn, Sega

Loose [Saturn – Cancelled]

monokoma
24-07-2012
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Loose is a cancelled RPG / roguelike that was in development by Easy Computer System for the Sega Saturn. The game would have been published by Sierra Pioneer, but something went wrong and the project was canned before being finished. There are not more info on Loose, but Yakumo was able to find some screenshot in an old japanese magazine and shared them in the Assembler Forum. From the look of the screens, the gameplay could have been similar to the Fushigi no Dungeon / Mystery Dungeon series.

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Others, PC / MAC

Irisu Syndrome [PC – Unused Stuff / Concept Art]

U64 Staff & Contributors
23-07-2012
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Irisu Syndrome is a freeware game developed by a small developer group in Japan, a English patch about 1 year later the game was released.
The game consists to match up blocks with the same color making chains. As long you progress, a better story you might obtain. The game is classified as Puzzle and Challenging. And to many people, is considered as creepy.

The game have been making since 2006 (shows a hidden configuration file):

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^Notice, buggy Japanese letters above
And many leftovers are present in the game, including, concept arts they used to make the game. Many of the game stories are based on the concept arts. There are 5 concept arts in total:


This seems to be a image previous than the first one. As it translated, it shows it’s not completed.

Edit: By the name of the file “irisukai_04.jpg”), it seems this file WOULD appear in the story mode (you can collect papers in metsu mode along you match good scores and chains). The other used files are “irisukai_01/02/03/05/06”. Read more