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I wanted this game sooooo bad.

[TheRedEye]

I used to watch DANDO Y DANDO on Telemundo.

Actually I just watched it once.

[Smeg]

Treco made Atomic Robo Kid. I liked Atomic Robo Kid. It's not good, but I liked it.

[ICEknight]

[Kid Fenris]

So was this ever slated to come out in Japan? I can't find any record of Treco developing their own games aside from some ports, so I assume Dando/Vasum came from another company, like Sammy (which founded Treco as a Genesis label) or NCS (which released the Japanese version of Treco's Sorcerer's Kingdom).

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[moondancin']

Looks pretty awesome. I like how they have an overhead world map with side-view towns and dungeons.

[parallaxscroll]

I forgot to add this one, from a later EGM, when the game was then known as Vasum.

[GDRI]

El bumpo...

I was doing a search and come upon composer Katsuhiro Hayashi's profile. Among the games he worked on was a Mega Drive game for "Nihon/Nippon Aicom" called "ダムド." I think "ダムド" (damudo) is "Dando."

It all makes sense. Dando looks similar to Astyanax and Legendary Axe. Aicom did Astyanax (AC) and appears to have been involved with Legendary Axe. And Treco and Aicom were both owned by Sammy.

[Dais]

Come to think of it, has there ever been a group effort (that someone here is aware of) to comb composer profiles for unreleased games? They somehow seem more likely to have lists of things they've worked on (or have a webpage period) than artists, programmers, designers, etcetra.

I should take a second look at Barry Leitch's site. He wrote (and confirmed in an email quite some time ago) that he wrote the score for an unreleased Megadrive version of Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire - a rather interesting concept in several ways, since:

1. the SNES version of Savage Empire was made by a Western team but only released in Japan (it's basically a reskinning of the Ultima 7 SNES port, with mostly the same staff....come to think, I beat the game and I don't remember any Japanese/translation credits whatsoever)

2. the only other Ultima game released for a Sega system was Ultima IV for SMS five years earlier

3. Pony Canyon/FCI, the main Japanese distributor of Ultima products until EA took over, only published one game on a Sega system (Eye of the Beholder on SCD.....although there was some Saturn snowboarding game, but that's like a double dose of don't care)

I suppose I should see if Leitch has any other info on canceled games. Although I think I'm still afraid he'll somehow pressure me into admitting I'm not particularly fond of the work of his I heard.

[GDRI]