River Raid [SNES - Cancelled]

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31 Mar 2010

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River Raid: The Mission of No Return (aka River Raid 3) is a cancelled shoot ‘em up for the Super Nintendo, based on the original River Raid released in 1982 by Activision for the Atari 2600. The game was going to be published by Activision but it was later cancelled and only few screens remain preserved in the gallery below. Celine was able to find some of these images in Banzzai magazine #14 and Super Power #13.

The source code of River Raid SNES was found in 2001 by an user of the Atari Age forum:

I can tell you, that what I have of River Raid SNES, is mainly a source code dump from August of ’93. You’d have to recompile it in order to view it. I had one of my programmers do so just we could figure out what exactly we have on the floppy.

Some other info were found by Zwackery from the Atari Age Forum, in VideoGames magazine (vol. V, no. 11, Nov 1993). As we can read from the VGM article, “River Raid: The Mission of No Return”  was shown at the summer CES  1991 in Chicago, along with the cancelled Kaboom:  The Mad Bomber Returns.

It seems that “both got killed because the developers couldn’t push the SNES boundaires with either one” as noted by Klove in the Atari Age Forum.

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3 Responses to River Raid [SNES - Cancelled]

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Celine

April 1st, 2010 at 11:09 am

You missed the box-art in Game Power 20.

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Ash

April 3rd, 2010 at 11:13 am

Snap, I loved the original. I didn’t know they were planing a 3rd game….Thanks for the info :D

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Elian

May 18th, 2011 at 2:59 am

I have found it for download:

http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/200108/zip00000.zip

I don’t know if it is from the same game

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