Others, Philips CDI

Space Ranger [CDI – Unreleased]

monokoma
16-10-2008
2 Comments

Grazie a Federico abbiamo qualche notizia in più su questo gioco cancellato per CDI: Space Ranger doveva essere uno sparatutto a scorrimento orizzontale ambientato su vari pianeti, previsto in uscita per il 1995. Il progetto fu poi abbandonato perchè la Philips non voleva investire ulteriori fondi. Il gioco avrebbe richiesto opzionalmente la Cdi Digital Video Card. Una versione alpha è stata rilasciata un paio di anni fa, ma putroppo sembra che non sia stato sviluppato molto:  è presente un solo livello giocabile che non è possibile nemmeno concludere. Già dalla versione alpha si può comunque notare una grande cura nella grafica 2D, con diversi livelli di parallasse e sfondi in movimento. Ancora una volta un progetto interessante cancellato troppo presto.

Thanks a lot to Federico for the info and to Interactive Dreams for these images!

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Nintendo, Nintendo DS

Animal Crossing: Wild World [DS – Beta]

U64 Staff & Contributors
15-10-2008
No Comments

ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a lot for your help! :)

ITA: Questa pagina dell’archivio non ha ancora una descrizione. Se vuoi aggiungere delle informazioni riguardo le differenze della beta o la descrizione di un gioco cancellato, lasciaci un commento o mandaci una email! Inseriremo le tue informazioni nella pagina ed il tuo nome nella lista dei collaboratori. Grazie per il tuo aiuto! :)

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Unseen News

Shadow of the Colossus E3 beta?

monokoma
14-10-2008
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Zero7 is trying to find one of the 3 different demo-disks of Shadow Of The Colossus, that should have some levels from the E3 (2005?) beta where the secret garden was different. You can read the original topic in the U64 Forum in here.

The demos with SotC beta were:

– September 2005 issue of PSM
– October 2005 (#97) issue of Official US PlayStation Magazine
– The “Playstation 2 Holiday 2005 Demo Disc” that Sony sends out

Does someone know where to find one of these? Any ISO leaked?

On YouTube we can find a couple of videos that seems to show this beta-garden:

Even in this other video there should be some differences (can you find them?):

 

Others, PC / MAC

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II [PC – Beta]

monokoma
14-10-2008
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Our reader Drake Lake has made us notice that in the ATMachine website (a page that we have seen for the various beta Monkey Island / LucasArts adventures) there are even lots of informations about removed scenes and beta stuff from Jedi Knight, a first person shooter released in 1997 by LucasArts. In those screens we can see different cutscenes and different and removed weapons.  You can check the original page for more informations and images. It even seems that in the beta versione there were a ride-able enemy creature, ‘tusken’ raiders on a sort of hovering motorcycle vehicle, and a supposedly planned ‘racing’ level which took place after Kyle Katarn escaped his father’s home/sewer system, but they are not yet confirmed as removed content.

Thanks to Drake Lake for the link and props to ATMachine for his archive!

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32X / Mega CD, Sega

Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors [Sega CD – Cancelled]

U64 Staff & Contributors
13-10-2008
4 Comments

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Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors is an unreleased video game planned for release initially on the Sega CD in April 1995 and to be followed by PC, 3DO versions later that year. The game starred the comedy-magician duo Penn & Teller. The developer Absolute Entertainment went out of business before they could release the game, yet the game was featured and previewed in various gaming publications such as Electronic Gaming Monthly.