New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

Dreamcast, Nintendo, Nintendo 64 & 64DD, Playstation, Sega, Sony

Rayman 2: The Great Escape [Beta]

U64 Staff & Contributors
13-09-2008
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The_IT_08 has wrote a topic in our forum with some beta-screens and a video from Rayman 2 that shows a series of differences. As he says: “Alright in the first picture  there is a level called The Minhir Hills, it is a beta version of it, and this takes place in the second section of this level I think (because the walking shell’s starting point which is now the doghouse is close to the thorn pit). The differences are that there wasn’t a giant orange mushroom in there and the place where the walking shell comes from was not a doghouse. And there was a purple Read more

Others, PC / MAC, Playstation, Saturn, Sega, Sony

Darknet [Saturn, Playstation, PC – Cancelled]

U64 Staff & Contributors
12-09-2008
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Darknet (sometimes written Dark Net) was given a tiny preview in the August 1995 issue of Sega Power, in “Video Games The Ultimate Gaming Magazine” (Issue 90 July 1996) and in EGM 83, and aside from a small screenshot and some concept art, very little is said about the game. From the lone screenshot, it seems to be an isometric adventure game, similar to Diablo, but with a fairly unique plot, with four students being sucked into the internet itself and fighting against the titular Darknet. The game was developed by American Softworks for PC, Playstation and Saturn, scheduled for ‘some yet-to-be-decided date’ and never released.

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Unseen News

[Unseen Hardware] the Phantom Console

U64 Staff & Contributors
12-09-2008
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The Phantom console was a game system developed by Infinium labs in 2002 but it was canceled for financial problems. This console was able to run games without using cartidges, DVDs or CDs: instead, the games would have been downloaded from internet by a pay-per-play service. The phantom console was designed to be very easy to set up and all the accessories were wireless, so you did not had to worry about any cables. The console did have an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ CPU, an internal 40 GB Hard drive, 256 MB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra video card and Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio sound card. About the kernel, the Phantom had a modified Read more

Nes / Famicom, Nintendo

Space Ace [NES – Unreleased]

yota
11-09-2008
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Space ace was an arcade laser game released originally in 1984.  However,this Nes version was going to be a platform in the same vein as the conversion of Dragon’s Lair  produced for the same 8-bit console. It is likely that the project was dropped because the Nintendo Entertainment System was at the end of its life. Space Ace was later ported to the Snes, but it was a completely different game.

Thanks to ArnoldRimmer83 for the pics!

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