New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

Radium [GBA – Cancelled]

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Gods [GBA – Cancelled]

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Gods was originally released some 11 years ago on numerous formats. Our lasting memory of it has little to do with the game itself, just that the main character walked in a very stompy manner. Originally developed by The Bitmap Brothers, handheld-loving Crawfish was coding the Game Boy Advance title. It featured all new levels, but the original levels were available upon completion of the game, however.

Gods for the GBA was around 60% completed, but after Crawfish wound up there was a possibility of the development going through, but with no publisher interest, and therefore no more funds, the game was abandoned. There were also discussions further down the track about a DS version of Gods, though this also failed to gain publisher backing.

Thanks to rodent for the contribution!

Thanks to Matt Gander from www.gamesasylum.com for the help!

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Kuru Kuru Kururin [GBA – Beta]

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A launch title for the GBA in Japan and Europe, Kuru Kuru Kururin went through a few cosmetic changes between its beta and final versions. The most obvious difference involves the life meter, which lost its sun-like appearance and was moved to the lower-left corner, with a vertical three-heart indicator and a picture of Kururin which reacted accordingly to the in-game action. Kururin himself lost his canary-like appearance in favour of his final blue-feathered, wide-beaked look. The time indicator moved to the upper-left and was given a black background, topped with the player’s record for the current stage.

One screenshot shows the Jungle-2 stage, but with a grassy mushroom background which doesn’t appear in the finished game. Another shows an Ocean stage with several differences from the final version: the treasure chest appears on the same background as an oyster and contains a peeping pair of eyes instead of treasure, and the playfield is transparent whereas all final-version stages have, at most, partially see-through playfields. The stage doesn’t appear to be from any of the final Ocean levels.

Thanks to pippitypop for the contribution!

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Command & Destroy [GBA – Cancelled]

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Pining for a Game Boy Advance version of Command and Conquer? There was an upcoming RTS game, cheekily titled Command and Destroy Advance, but it was cancelled. We say cheekily titled, as the game looked rather similar to Westwood’s classic Command and Conquer. Inspiration or plagarism? The game took place in 2018, in a scenario where Earth is stripped of all natural resources. You could have play as three different sides: Humans, Aliens or Worms (big worms, mind). There were 50 different units to build and control, and multiplayer skirmishes. Sadly, the developers never found a publisher..

It seems that this game was somehow released on the DS, but it appears that it wasn’t carried in stores and was only sold by mail order.

Thanks to Paul Masterson & Matt Gander for the contributions!

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Rick Dangerous Advance [GBA – Cancelled]

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Rick Dangerous advance was cancelled because Spoutnick Team received a mail announcing that the copyrights holders of “Rick Dangerous” doesn’t want to sell their license for “internal reasons”. So the team cannot legally continue to work on a game which is not their property and they decided to stop developing a non releasable project.

 

Source: www.spoutnick.free.fr/ST/viewnews.php3?id=10

 

[Thanks to lopyod for the contribute!]

 

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