Firefly is a cancelled game that was in development by Pioneer LDC for the Playstation. There are not many info about this project, but a short article published in an old GameFan magazine (4 – 2) in which we can read that Firefly was going to be a mix between a platform, a shoot ’em up and a puzzle game. The description sounds interesting, but sadly Pioneer never released a anything like this on any console.
Thanks to Celine for the contribution!
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Before the Playstation was released, Sony’s Epic team (Epic Sony Record?) created a tech demo with F-1 cars racing in a city street, to show some of the graphic power of their new 32 Bit console. Today this graphic could look silly, but for it’s time it was really nice. In the end, Epic never developed any real game for the Playstation. Celine was able to find a screenshot of this tech demo in Edge issue 5.
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Jet Moto (aka Jet Rider in Europe) is a futuristic racing game developed by SingleTrac and published in 1996 by Sony for the PlayStation and PC. As we can read on Wikipedia, the developers chose to create jet motos instead of wheeled motorcycles due to concerns over polygon limitations.
Developers originally intended for players to be permanently out of a race when falling far off a track, however they came to realize that it was not fun for players “to be forced to go slow or suffer an instant defeat. Also, a set of courses set in a stadium were dropped as SingleTrac felt it did not fit the theme of the game.
In the gallery below you can see a series of screenshots from a Jet Moto beta, about 40% complete, with different models and backgrounds. Check the video from the final version for a comparison!
Thanks to Pcloadletter for the scan!
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Death Race is a cancelled 3D racing game developed by Ocean Software for Playstation and Saturn, scheduled for the end of ’96 but that doesn’t seem to ever been released. The game was set in a distant future where the most popular show is Death Race. The game was a mix between the racing part (10 courses were available to challenge violent opposition) and exploration on foot in a 3D environment.
Scan from Console Plus issue 45.
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Covert W.A.R.S. seems to be a 3D action game with a strong multiplayer component, that was planned for PC and Playstation. Very little is known about it outside of a video shown around E3 ’97 so we can speculate that the project was later cancelled, but let us know if you have any additional information!
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In EGM special issue “Guide to E3 ’97” it was mentioned Playmates as publisher. From an old news on Gamespot ( ex-Videogames.com ) we can learn that the title was in development by Black Ops and production was halted in early ’98.
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