Nightmare Busters is a cancelled beat ‘em up / action game that was in development in 1994 by Arcade Zone (a french studio) for the Super Nintendo. After Sony decided to not publish Nightmare Busters SNES as the original Playstation arrived in Europe, Arcade Zone had to close down and cancel all their projects.
At 1UP Games we can read an interview with former Arcade Zone’s developers, in which they talk about the studio’s closure:
Carlo Perconti: What happened is that Sony broke off the Nintendo distribution in Europe, refusing to take the products. Without buyers and incapable of publishing them by ourselves, we had to close down Arcade Zone and interrupt undergoing developments, with profound regret. Other companies which already weighed in the balance survived and moved on to the Playstation. We were at the wrong time at the wrong transition, the one which saw Nintendo’s European market become Sony’s European market.
Nightmare Busters was eventually leaked online thanks to members of ASSEMbler games and you can find a ROM quite easily with Google. As wrote by Evan on SNES Central, this game was eventually released in 2004 for cell phones as Flynn’s Adventure.
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5 Responses to Nightmare Busters [SNES - Unreleased]
LastNinja2
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:26 pm
This game is a very recognizable clone of Capcom’s “Midnight Wanderers” (also known as “Roosters”), originally released as part of an arcade collection of three different games known as “Three Wonders” (“Wonder 3″ in Japan).
Nightmare Busters almost plays identical to Midnight Wanderers and the graphics style is very, very similar: the goblin enemies almost seem ripped off and some stages, like the forest one, are very close to the original.
BomKosh
December 15th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
http://www.snescentral.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=dkifm8mmid60of5avfgvpja6u1&topic=331.0
They’re announcing that this game is gonna be released.
BomKosh
December 15th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
^Officially, I mean.
Anonymous
May 7th, 2012 at 9:45 pm
The cartridge can be pre-ordered from Super Fighter Team (http://www.nightmarebusters.com/purchase.htm).
By the way, the Christophe Gayraud, the game designer, died the 8th april 2012 of an heart attack . Rest In Peace.
monokoma
May 13th, 2012 at 11:48 pm
That is a sad news :( Thanks for the update Anon!