Tenchu: Stealth Assassins is a stealth game released for the original Playstation, in which the player takes the role of a ninja, progressing through 10 stages set in ancient Japan and accomplishing the tasks therein. [Infos from Wikipedia]
Thanks to Mozgus we are able to see an interesting video from an early prototype of the game, that was found in the Japan-exclusive disc Tenchu: Shinobi Hyakusen. In this old build, it seems that Tenchu was going to be more “futuristic” and the style of the game was very different from the one in the final version.
Thanks a lot to Mozgus for the contribution!
Video (beta / proto):
Video (final version):
U64 is an archive with articles, screens and videos for cancelled, beta & unseen videogames. Every change & cut creates a different gaming experience: we would like to save some documents about this evolution for curiosity, historic and artistic preservation.
5 Responses to Tenchu: Stealth Assassins [PSX - Beta]
Mozgus
January 16th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Haha, I was wondering if it was going to make it to the site.
monokoma
January 17th, 2009 at 3:05 am
sorry for the delay Mozgus, we have so many updates for U64 that most of them need to wait in queue before being published in the archive, as we try to have max 1 or 2 updates a day, or it would be too chaotic. This one was already “speeded up”, currently there are scheduled U64 updates till May ;) Thanks again for this video! It’s really an interesting piece of gaming-history :)
LastNinja2
September 27th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Both videos are down :(
monokoma
September 27th, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Argh! :( This weekend I’ll see if i have saved them in my personal backup and eventually re-upload them
monokoma
October 4th, 2011 at 6:21 pm
I have reuploaded the videos!