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Unseen Interview: Mr. Mark & Hoppin Mad

monokoma
21-03-2009
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In May 2008, mrmark0673 found a working prototype of Hoppin Mad, an unreleased NES game developed by Elite. The game was previously unknown to the public and when it was found, the NES community was really happy to check all the infos and screens that were freely shared online by its new owner. We had a little interview with Mr. Mark, to talk about Hoppin Mad, the preservation of unseen games, the delicate relationship between collectors / developers / gaming community, the future release of the game and some of his personal tastes.

U64: Thanks for your time Mark! Would you like to introduce yourself to our readers? :)

Mark: Thanks for having me, it’s great to be able to share info with such a great group of people. My name is Mark and I’m 24 years old. I live with my twin brother just outside of Boston and I currently work as a 7th grade Science teacher.

U64: Can you tell us a little bit about the Hoppin Mad prototype and how you found it?

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GameCube, Microsoft, Nintendo, Playstation 2 (PS2), Sony, Xbox

Vexx (Clip & Mischief) [XBOX/PS2/GC – Concepts]

monokoma
20-03-2009
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Vexx is a game developed by Acclaim for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube and released in 2003.  Thanks to the Vexx Fan Club on Deviant Art we found some interesting infos and concept arts from it’s development : “Vexx wasn’t supposed to start like a single hero, it was supposed for the game to be a hero/sidekick thing, just like “Ratchet & Clank” or “Jak & Daxter”; their names were supposed to be “Clip & Mischief” then the previous idea was discarded and give space for the single hero idea, deducing that it was at that moment which appeared the idea of the hero with gloves, seeking for revenge. However, the main character had another name: “Jinx” or “Jinxed”.

Some unused / beta music from the game can be downloaded from here.

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[Update] More screens & videos in the archive

monokoma
20-03-2009
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In the last couple of months we have added some stuff in these Unseen Archives: 100 Bullets, Red Faction BEAST, Project Katana (Red Steel),  Bioshock, Skies of Arcadia, Orchid, The Unseen, Earthworm Jim [PSP], Starcraft Ghost,  Buggy Boogie [N64], Gran Thef Auto 4, Left 4 Dead, Vectorman [PS2], Final Fantasy 7, Resident Evil 1, Dirty Harry, Four Horsemen Of the Apocalypse, Infinity [GBC], Hellgate, Spore, Battletoads [GBA],  Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy 7 and we cant forget a new, useless Unseen Uncomic + a new Link (Debug Unused Wikia) in our unseen web list!

Playstation 2 (PS2), Sony

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2 [PS2 – Cancelled]

monokoma
18-03-2009
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Robert Seddon has made us to notice that recently ProgrammingAce from the Game Of The Art forum has shared an old design document for the cancelled sequel of Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, the action RPG that was developed and produced by Interplay in 2004. The original BoS was the fourth video game to be set in the Fallout universe and the first to be made for consoles (Xbox and PlayStation 2).

The development of Brotherhood of Steel 2, also know as “Vagrant Lands”, started before the release of the first game, but it was cancelled soon after because of the poor sales of BoS 1.

As ProgramminAce has wrote in his post: “It seems Interplay knew the first BoS game wasn’t very good. They were using it as a platform to pay for the development costs of the engine and to fund the second game. They went out of business before they were able to execute this plan.”

From what we can read on Fallout Wikia, “the plot incorporated some elements from Van Buren, the canceled Fallout 3 by Black Isle Studios (Caesar’s Legion, the Jackals, Nursery), as well as the mutated GECK from the canceled Fallout Tactics 2.”

Huge props to ProgrammingAce for sharing this important piece of unseen-gaming history!

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