New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

What happened to Inspector Gadget for the NES?

Hudson revealed at the Winter CES in 1992 that they had bought the license to develop an Inspector Gadget game for the Nintendo. There was no work in progress to be seen at the show, and the game never made it into production. There was firstly a rumour of legal issues about the license to ‘inspector gadget’ but it would appear it was simply because Hudson thought it would be a waste of time and money to make the game, since the e SNES was soon to be available worldwide.

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Sim City [NES – Unreleased]

Around September/October 1990, Nintendo Power magazine announced that they would bring the highly acclaimed Maxis game SimCity to the Nintendo consoles on the market at the time, both the SNES and the NES. The magazine listed a release date of this for simultaneous release for Spring of 1991. In the November/December 1990 issue two screenshots from the game were published and those two screenshots were for a very long time the only proof that a NES version of the game actually existed. Read more