Posts Tagged ‘Beat ‘em up

Conan is a cancelled beat ‘em up similar to Golden Axe that was in development by Arcade Zone for the Atari Jaguar. The french studio was closed down after Sony decided to not publish their latest Super Nintendo game, as the original Playstation arrived in Europe. Without another publisher they had to give up on [...]

2 Finger Heroes is a canceled beat ‘em up  made by Arkedo studios  that was supposed to be played with the Natal, the Xbox 360 “play without a joypad” add-on.  From the concept arts, we can see that the characters were controlled using the fingers o with some basic gestures, like folding your arms.

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Denjin Makai is a series of beat ‘em up developed by Banpresto and released for the Arcade from 1993 to 1995.  A Super Famicom / Super Nintendo version was planned too, but it seems that it was never released. It’s currently unknown if the SNES Denjin Makai was going to be a new game or [...]

Toxic Crusaders is an animated series based on the Toxic Avenger films. It features Toxie, the lead character of the films leading a trio of misfit superheroes who combat pollution. Video games based on Toxic Crusaders were also produced by Bandai and Sega, which were released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, and Sega [...]

Dyno Blaze is a cancelled beat ‘em up that was in development by Bonsai Entertainment for the Genesis / Mega Drive, Mega CD and 3DO in 1994 and it would have been published by Virgin. A playable prototype of the game was somehow leaked online in 2008, in which you can try a series of [...]

Elf Saga was a side scroller action game that was in development at Kaiko for the original Playstation. It seems that the project started as an Amiga title, but it was later ported to the PSX. Elf Saga was cancelled by its publisher (Software 2000) after almost 2 years of work.
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Jet Li: Rise to Honor is a beat ‘em up released in 2004 for the PlayStation 2. The game features the likeness, voice acting and motion capture work of martial arts actor Jet Li, and features martial arts choreography by Corey Yuen.  [Info from Wikipedia] In 2005 SCEA were working on a sequel, but the [...]

The Retriever (also know as Jet Li’s The Retriever) was a third person action game / beat ‘em up that was in development in 2005 at SCEA, for Playstation 2 and PSP. As with Rise To Honor, the protagonist of this game would have been Jet Li, in one of his usual adventures to save [...]

It seems that this project, a beat ‘em up by Jailed Games, was going to be released on the PS2 and PSP, but it was later post-poned, development started again on the Xbox 360, and finally it was cancelled in 2006.
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Wario World was first shown at E3 2002 as a technical demo. At the next E3 in 2003, it was shown with new levels of gameplay polish and tweaking, which the previous E3 demo was lacking.[Infos from Wikipedia] In these screens from the early version of the game, the HUD is different from the final [...]


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