Robocop VS Terminator is a action game based on the mini-series of comic book with the same name that was released for all the main consoles between 1993 and 1994. A version for the Nintendo 8-bit was developed by Interplay but later canceled, because the system was considered commercially dead and probably also [...]
Arcadia VI is an unfinished multi-cart that was intended to be released on the NES with 6 games. The only know proto, currently owned by BeaglePuss and MrMark0673, only has 4 games. Of the 4 games, only one game (Tennis) has been completed. The 4 games on the cart are:
Tennis
Xerxes
Ghurka
Twin Cam Turbo
The [...]
Kitty’s Catch is a cancelled NES game that was discovered and purchased by Matt (aka BeaglePuss) from a lot on the Digital Press forums. The game is a two player fishing game where both players play as cats: Pitter vs Patter. It seems that Kitty’s Catch was an independent project by a GameTek [...]
Power Punch II was an NES boxing game released in 1992. Originally conceived as a sequel to the 1987 NES game Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! (with the title “Mike Tyson’s Intergalactic Power Punch”), the game was developed by Beam Software under supervision from Nintendo.
However, while the game was in production Tyson was tried for the rape [...]
Mega Man 4 was released in December 1991 in Japan and in January 1992 in America. Some days ago, Protodude has found an old scan with Electronic Gaming Monthly’s coverage of CES 1991, in which we can see a beta version of Mega Man 4 with a removed Boss (Sphinx midboss?), some different details in [...]
In the beta version of Batman for the NES, there are a series of videos before the levels that are different from the ones in the final game. A collection of these videos can be found in the Youtube channel of BrYaN5555.
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Drac’s Night Out is a unreleased platform/puzzle game for the Nes. I don’t really understand why, but this game was selected as a form of advertising for the Reebok’s shoes Pump, which are used in the game by Dracula to run faster. And you really need it, because in order to suck the blood [...]
Faxanadu is a platform adventure game for the NES, that was developed and released in Japan by Hudson Soft in 1987. In 1989, Nintendo of America released the game as a first-party title in the US and in the European market in 1990. Faxanadu can be considered a side-story of Xanadu, which is the second [...]
Lost Levels has recently talked about an interesting discovery: a working proto of Happy Camper, an unreleased platform / action game that was in development by Color Dreams for the NES. It seems that the game was too hard to play.. and after some changes in the difficulty level options, it was already too late [...]
Some time ago, mrmark0673 from the Digital Press Forum, found a working prototype of Hoppin Mad, an unreleased NES game developed by Elite. It seems that the game is a remake of a game that was previusly released on old PCs (C64, Spectrum, Amstrad), but with different levels. Later an article about the game was [...]
Space ace was an arcade laser game released originally released in 1984. However,this nes version was going to be a platform in the same vein as the conversion of Dragon’s Lair released for the same 8-bit console.It is likely that the project was dropped because the nintendo entertainment system was at the end of his life. Space [...]
Cubivore10 has sent to us lots of informations and screens about Monster Party, an old game for the NES. In these beta screens we can see some unused sprites of a monkey, a key, 1-up, a race-car thing and a different version of one of the bosses. Some of the screens are a remake [...]
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The game was originally set to have batteries for save the game’s progress. This was probably changed because the beta game was just 1 MB rather than the final version’s 2 MB. The story originally had more orange characters, background and text, a yellow frame a light yellow “painting” and a red logo. Originally, [...]
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 [...]
The development and history of the Mii avatar was a long and arduous process, taking about 20 years to reach fruition. Famed video game developer Shigeru Miyamoto revealed information regarding such a process during his keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference in 2007. He stated that the current Mii design is based on traditional [...]
There were going to be two new enemies called Gold Cheep Cheep (a golden version of a Cheep-Cheep), and Green Parabeetles (green colored Parabeetles). The Gold Cheep Cheeps would come in groups and swim faster than regular Cheep-Cheeps and the Green Parabeetle is a green Parabeetle that flies faster than normal ones. The game coding [...]
As the inaugural game of The Legend of Zelda series, it was first released in Japan as a launch title for the Famicom’s Disk System peripheral, a year and five months before it was released in the United States. Because the Famicom Disk System was not released outside Japan, the game was published internationally on [...]
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This was to be a massive RPG which would encompass an impressive, Riven-esque five disks for the Famicom Disk System (a floppy drive add-on for the Japanese NES). By that point, though, the FDS was waning in popularity and Square lacked the resources to develop such an ambitious epic for a fading peripheral. The game [...]
Apparently what we know as Final Fantasy IV was originally going to be Final Fantasy V for the super famicon. the above picture is a mock up of what Final Fantasy IV for the nes would most likely have looked like in the beta stages had it gotten past the drawing board. So yes, there [...]
Il mitico arcade della Capcom, datato 1987, non ha mai avuto vita facile sulle console casalinghe: oltre alla terribile versione per Amiga, gli sviluppatori avevano deciso di convertire il possente Coin Op sul famoso NES. Naturalmente la versione per la console Nintendo, sarebbe stata sottoposta a diversi tagli per consentire il porting. Per qualche strano [...]
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Time Diver: Eon Man is a cancelled beat ‘em up developed by A.I for Taito for the NES. The game was finished, receiving a four-page strategy guide and review in issue 45 (February ‘93) of Nintendo Power. Despite this, the game eventually disappeared from the Pak Watch section and was silently canceled.
According to game designer [...]
Donkey Kong’s Fun With Music was a Sequel in a line of educational video game containing classic Nintendo Characters. These games intended to help kids while still being entertaining. This line of games included Donkey Kong Jr. Math, and Popeye no Eigo Asobi (A game Starring Popeye the sailor in which you learn about American [...]
Airball is a cancelled action game / puzzle that was in development by Novotrade and it would have been published by Tengen for the NES. As we can read at Lost Levels:
the game itself is a pseudo-3D isometric fetch-quest, along the lines of Knight Lore, Alien 8, Batman and the like (or, if [...]
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War on Wheels was a roller skating game by Jaleco. The game supported a two players mode, and like Road Rash is was possible to beat up your opponents. WoW was even reviewed by some magazines, but at the end it got canceled.
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Wild Boys is a canceled beat ‘em up from Bandai. In the game it was possible to choose between four different characters, like the first Ninja Turtles for the Nes.
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Xybots is an old third person shooter developed by Atari released for the arcades and many home computers in in the 80’s. A porting for the NES by Tengen was supposed to be released in 1990, but it was canceled even if the game was almost completed. The prototype was somehow leaked online and it [...]
Ace Harding: Lost in Las Vegas (also known as Déjà Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas) is a point-and-click adventure released for the Apple II, the Atari ST and other computers. A Nes port of the game was completed but never published.
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