Neverland Saga was a Card Battle game set in the Spectral Force world, that was in development in 2001 by Idea Factory and XPEC Entertainment for the original XBOX. The game was never finished, even if a Neverland Saga Zero was later released for the PS2, but it’s a completely different game (an hack ‘n slash) from this one.
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Back to Sparta is a 2-months prototype for an hack & slash that was developed by Virtuos Games for the Playstation 2. It was created to evaluate their GameBryo 3D Engine and to have something to show to publishers to pitch for full projects. Probably this was never meant to became a full game but just an internal demo.
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CCTV is a cancelled adventure game that was in development at Nikitova Games, designed by Jon Hare, former member of Sensible Software. The concept of the game is that players work as a security operator in charge of using cameras to find criminals and resolve various problems. While you look at different camera feeds, you can see different action going and when you notice that something strange it’s happening, you can stop / rewinds the video to find more clues. As we can read in the official description of the project:
In this game you play the role of a security guard using CCTV and cop cars to catch petty criminals and most wanted criminals alike as you travel the world finding suspects and nailing them in this fast paced game of observation, identification & interrogation. Starting as a lowly shopping mall guard, the player can rise to International head of security […]
The game has been designed specifically for the Nintendo Wii & DS to play as either a single player, as two players co-operatively or as 2 players competitively against each other.
As Jon told in his Cubed3 interview, the game is currently suspended and it’s unknown if it will ever be resurrected. Sadly they did not find any publisher interested in the project:
CCTV’s a good example of how it’s very hard to sell an original game. We did show CCTV to a lot of companies, and some companies expressed interest, but there overall response was ‘that’s interesting, I like the idea of that, but…it’s too original
Thanks to Celine for the contribution!
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As some of you probably known already, those lovely gamers at Sega Saturno were able to preserve and release various cancelled titles for the Sega consoles (X-Men 32X, Virtual Hamster, Lobo…) in the last few months. Almost two months after their last release, SEGASaturno in cooperation with Hidden Palace, are back again presenting a prototype of an unreleased Saturn game, ready to be released as soon as the required public donations are met.
The title of the soon-to-be-leaked game is currently unknown, but we’ll learn more about it when they will be able to reach the target amount of 550$. They have already opened a topic on the Hidden Palace Forum with some more info on this new proto-fundraising:
-Well, which company is this coming from? Any tip about it?
-It’s from a famous company. In fact, it’s one of the best and most well known videogame companies.-Is this already available in some other console or system?
-It’s a totally unreleased game, not available in any other platform. Therefore, it’s a never-seen-before game.-Why donating for a game I don’t know which one it is until the required quantity is met?
-Because you already know it is an unreleased game for the Sega Saturn, something that is not easy to obtain. I bet there’s an interest in making something like this available to everyone.-Is the game complete?
-No, it’s an early prototype. This is not in its final development stages for sure.
If you want to help to preserve this unseen game, donations have to be sent to [email protected], stating SATURN in the description so they can know for sure the funds are oriented to this release. You can also donate through the PayPal addressed field in the Hidden Palace Contribute section: www.hidden-palace.org/?contribute
Times of Trouble is an action adventure that was in development by 4x Studio in 2002, for the original XBOX and Playstation 2. They probably never found a publisher interested in the project, so it was later cancelled along with other 4X games.
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