We are happy to welcome Xavio to the Unseen 64 staff! As always there is not much to say in here, you will see what he’s capable to do in the next few days :) The staff is getting bigger everyday, should we stop to hire people? Not yet. There are too many unseen games out there, we need an army of beta geeks.
VB Mario Land is a cancelled game / prototype of the Mario Virtual Boy game that actually became Mario Clash. Nintendo was originally developing this as a full mario platform game, as show at E3 1995. The original project was cut and Mario Clash became just a remake of the classic Super Mario Bros, with featured small 3-d elements to show what the Virtual Boy was graphically capable of. For example, some parts exchanged the original idea of warp pipes with 3-d doorways that players enter by pressing up on the D-pad.
You can find more infos at Planet Virtual Boy
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Maybe you have already seen some of these, but Carnivol has a nice list of beta videos in his YouTube channel, like an old presentation for Mario RPG, an interview about Parasite Eve with some “work in progress” parts, a look at Chocobo De Battle in motion and an early footage of Chrono Trigger. Props to him!
On IGN we read that a PC version of Seaman was in development some years ago, but it looks like it was never released: “The PC version of the game was announced by Vivarium founder Yoot Saito today at a conference in Japan. It’s entitled Seaman for Windows Ver. 1.0 and will be available in the 1st quarter of 2001. Seaman on the PC will be completely different from his DC brethren. It’s not a game, says Mr. Saito — rather, it’s a communication tool and a pet for your desktop. As shown in the screen shots, which have been taken from Japan’s PC Watch website, the virtual fish exists on your desktop, rather than in an aquarium. Seaman is automatically launched when you turn on your computer, and resides in memory, running in the background, swimming around on screen… hopefully behind your application windows. Seaman is still drawn in 3D, but he’s kept tiny so as to not interfere with your other work.” Read more
This article is only in italian, sorry!
I ragazzi di www.gamescollection.it hanno organizzato l’evento 2008 per tutti i veri maniaci di videogames, con una fiera interamente dedicata alle collezioni di pezzi rari, retrogaming, riviste d’epoca e tornei con ricchi premi. La parte davvero interessante per noi beta geeks, sarà la possibilità di osservare dal vivo un’affascinante raccolta di materiale “unseen”, con kit di sviluppo originali e prototipi di videogiochi mai usciti.. un occasione per conoscere e parlare con i maggiori collezionisti italiani e magari scoprire che posseggono qualche beta del nostro gioco preferito! L’incontro è previsto nelle giornate di venerdi 23, sabato 24 e domenica 25 maggio, si svolgerà a Monza, in via Filippo Turati 8, presso l’Urban Center (Aperto tutti i giorni dalle 11 alle 20).
Per maggiori informazioni: www.gamescollection.it/events/show/4
Lo staff italiano di Unseen64 cercherà di essere presente all’evento, almeno in una delle giornate, per un po’ di sane pubbliche relazioni con i collezionisti, cercando qualche informazione esclusiva sui loro prototipi, foto e video ancora unseen! Se passate anche voi da quelle parti fateci sapere, potremmo anche svolgere un piccolo U64 meeting ;)
