New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

Irisu Syndrome [PC – Unused Stuff / Concept Art]

Irisu Syndrome is a freeware game developed by a small developer group in Japan, a English patch about 1 year later the game was released.
The game consists to match up blocks with the same color making chains. As long you progress, a better story you might obtain. The game is classified as Puzzle and Challenging. And to many people, is considered as creepy.

The game have been making since 2006 (shows a hidden configuration file):

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^Notice, buggy Japanese letters above
And many leftovers are present in the game, including, concept arts they used to make the game. Many of the game stories are based on the concept arts. There are 5 concept arts in total:


This seems to be a image previous than the first one. As it translated, it shows it’s not completed.

Edit: By the name of the file “irisukai_04.jpg”), it seems this file WOULD appear in the story mode (you can collect papers in metsu mode along you match good scores and chains). The other used files are “irisukai_01/02/03/05/06”. Read more

Zulu [PSX – Cancelled]

Zulu is a cancelled action game that was in development in 1997 by Studio E for the Playstation. There are basically no info about this project, apart from a single screenshot found in an old magazine and the trademark document for its name.

Studio E was working on different titles, but only VMX Racing was released. They also worked on Shadowhawk for the SNES and Pariah for the Playstation.

If you know someome that worked at Studio E in 1997 and could have some more info about Zulu, please let us know!

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Blues Brothers 2000 [N64 – Beta]

Blues Brothers 2000 was a platformer developed by Player 1 and released on November 17th 2000 for the Nintendo 64. Titus Interactive acquired the license to a Blues Brothers 2000 video game at around the time of the BB2K movie release. They began their search for a developer to take on the project and had an estimated release date Q2 1999. The game ended up suffering many delays being pushed back to December 1999 and then again to early 2000. These delays may have been due to the poor reception at the time of Carmageddon 64 and Superman. It was in August 2000 that Blues Brothers 2000 got a rental release at Blockbuster. Gamers had to wait till November 2000 before they could finally purchase Blues Brothers 2000 at a retail store.

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BloodBath [Cancelled – Xbox 360 / PS3]

Update: some years later, the game was released on Steam

BloodBath is an unreleased action game / brawler set in a post-apocalyptic future, that was in development by Freedom Factory Studios for Xbox Live Arcade (Xbox 360) and PSN (Playstation 3). Players would have been able to chose from differents characters and classes, with their own set of combos and special abilities, to fight in combat pits full of deathly traps and hazards all around the world. Single Player, Coop-Mode and Versus Multiplayer were all planned. BloodBath was pitched around to various publishers, but sadly they were not able to find one.

Only some screens from this lost game are archived below, to preserve its existence.

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Pariah [PSX – Cancelled]

Pariah is a cancelled action game that was in development in 1997 by Studio E for the original Playstation. There are not many info about Pariah, apart from a small image in an old magazine and a printed advert. Studio E was working on different titles, but only VMX Racing was released. They also worked on Shadowhawk for the SNES and Zulu for the Playstation.

If you know someone that worked on this game, please let us know!

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