SANiK on the X-Cult forum has wrote an interesting post about the early screenshots of Coded Arms for the PSP. The game is a first-person shooter that was developed and published by Konami in 2005: it takes place inside a virtual reality military training simulator, which has been abandoned. However, the program Read more
Battletoads is a video game by Rare Ltd. created to rival the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. The first game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991 and was followed up with sequels released over the ensuing years for GameBoy, SNES, Megadrive / Genesis and Arcade. [Info from Wikipedia] A proto for a cancelled GBA version of Battletoads was discovered in the collection of cancelled RARE games that transparentjinjo has uploaded on his Youtube Channel.
The game was in development only for a few weeks, and everything from character animations and enemy AI to sound effects is a placeholder.
The character design was the result of merging the sometimes conflicting ideas of the original Battletoads artists, who were now in director or lead positions on other teams.
Even the main game design was not fixed at that point. Team instructions ranged from “make a shiny clone of the NES version” to “do whatever you think is best” to “everything cool will have to wait for an Xbox version”.
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In this old trailer of the Tekken 5 we can see less-detailed characters, enviroments and animations than the one in the final version. Even the hole in the wall behind Kazuya is missing from this trailer.
Thanks to Marco for the contribution!
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Over at GameSniped, Castlevania4ever is selling his massive collection of prototype and unreleased games! If you are interested in buying any one of them, just send him an offer through a PM on the GameSniped Forums.
His collection spans over several different systems, including Gameboy, NES, SNES, N64, PS2, Genesis, and more! It’s really a huge list, so go check it out! There are some very rare items on the list, like the NTSC NES version of Earthbound, or the unreleased N64 game Toon Panic. I tried to buy Toon Panic, but someone had already offered over 1000 USD, which is way out of my price range. So if you have some money to spare and you buy one of his games, you can help build Unseen 64’s archive by providing us with pictures and video of your purchase!
The U64 family is still growing somehow and more beta-lovers want to help our little archive of games that we’ll never be able to play. Today we are happy to welcome a new young staffer, that will try to give us an hand to finish all those missing descriptions for the unseen games: say hi to Max/GamerX428!