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Sega VR footage [CES 1993]

U64 Staff & Contributors
14-04-2008
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Il Sega VR fu un progetto per la realtà virtuale casalinga annunciato da Sega nel 1991. Si trattava praticamente di una specie di maschera con integrati uno schrmo LCD e altoparlanti. Era dotata di un sensore in grado di percepire i movimenti della testa del giocatore e reagire di conseguenza. Purtroppo (o per fortuna a seconda dei punti di vista) il Sega VR prevedibilmente ebbe problemi nello sviluppo, anche legati ad eventuali effetti collaterali (come ad esempio mal di testa e fastidio agli occhi). L’add-on venne così abbandonato, cercando di sfruttare il concept della VR per gli arcade o per il Sega SAturn eventualmente. Fino ad oggi solo alcuni mock-up e articoli di riviste ci erano pervenuti a proposito di questo sfortunato progetto ma è stato pubblicato su YouTube un video che ci mostra lo stand Sega al CES 1993 con un video promozionale ed un test!

Aspettatevi presto un articolo completo sul Sega VR (non una traduzione da Wikipedia) nella futura sezione Console del sito! 

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Syvalion SNES: Unreleased in USA

monokoma
14-04-2008
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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! :)

Thanks to SNES Central for these images!

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Leaked, Nintendo, SNES + Super Famicom

Universal Soldier [SNES – Unreleased]

U64 Staff & Contributors
14-04-2008
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Turrican was released in 1989 for the Commodore 64 and 1990 for the Amiga and Atari ST. It was Programmed by Rainbow Arts and Factor 5. Then Accolade made a port to the Sega Genesis, GameBoy, and Turbo Graphix 16. The Accolade Ports were a huge disaster. However, Accolade wanted to do the same thing with Turrican 2, which is known to be the best Turrican game and in general one of the best games ever made. They screwed up a classic and they wanted to screw up another.

However, the members of Accolade wanted to make their new port into a game based off of Universal Soldier to make more money. Universal Soldier was released for the Sega Genesis and Game Boy and was given horrible reviews. It’s a shame they took such a great game and turned it into a mess. There was going to be a Super Nintendo version but Nintendo didn’t license it despite the message on the title screen.

The Super Nintendo version was even worse than all of Accolade’s previous ports! The controls are messed up, the music sounds good at first but it becomes a mess. For example, one of the best songs in Turrican 2 is “The Wall” but in the SNES Universal Soldier version you can’t even hear the song because the beat is too loud. The Sound effects are annoying, the graphics are obviously ripped from Turrican, and the collision detection is beyond terrible.

If it was released, it would probably be called one of the worst games ever made. If you want to try this disaster a ROM of it was leaked on the internet.

Thanks a lot to Edward Morley for the description / info and to SNES Central for these images!

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New Phantasy Star (V?) Genesis: unreleased? No, it was Sorcerer’s Kingdom]

U64 Staff & Contributors
14-04-2008
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The scan that you can see in the gallery below is from on an old gaming magazine, in which it was assumed that the screenshot published in the page was from a new game in the Phantasy Star series of RPG. This “New Phantasy Star” for the Genesis / Mega Drive was never released.. because it was never a Phantasy Star game to begin with. Thanks to Oath we found out that this image is probably from another Genesis RPG, called “Sorcerer’s Kingdom”, developed by Treco Corporation and released in 1992. If you compare the original scan with the other 2 Sorcerer’s Kingdom screens, you can notice that the main character sprite is almost the same and the trees are identical.

Thanks to Oath and Klinger Bea Arthur for the contribution!

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