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Tongueman · Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 631 Location: Japan

This one looked like it could have been really cool (if a bit blocky). Hell, it would have satisfied our cravings for a portable Zelda, at any rate.

Much larger pictures here: http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/secret/GB__1990Q3.html#keith

TheRedEye · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:53 pm Post subject:

Wow! That looks fun, but then again I think I like Zelda clones more than Zelda...

Carnivol · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject:

Woah. That's quite the Zelda clone. Looks an awful lot like zelda (down to where I'd say not just general design being lifted right out of Zelda 1, but the bottle in the shop image even looks creepishly close to the Zelda 1 bottles... Of course, you can only draw a simple bottle in so many ways.)

Guess EPIC/SONY(?) were playing some good ol' Let's Play Money Making Game until someone on Nintendo's side just went "Eh-hmm!!"

(Also, hey, RAF WORLD pictures! And, heh, helmet-less design... Another SunSoft oddity. So production order was probably US -> JP/EU. Thus the US version might not have been "cutified" or "simplified", and the JP/EU ones are more like updated versions... interesting. Iirc, the helicopter shoots bullets while on ground level in both PAL and JP releases too, while in the US one it does not. I actually kinda thought everything was the other way around; with the helmet-less design being an afterthought, and the other design was a "Terminator"-era design that was changed + helicopter boss being "simplified"... Guess not.)

Kid Fenris · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 301

What else did Epic develop? Were they a subsidiary of Sony? Or is that "Epic" as in Epic Records?

Tongueman · Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 631 Location: Japan

Epic and Sony are the same company/label. They're probably primarily a publisher of games, rather than developer.

They've published plenty of games, including Soltice & its sequel Equinox, Jerry Boy, etc. The above were developed by Software Creations and System Sacom, respectively.

GDRI · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 352

Tongueman · Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 631 Location: Japan

You mean, 漂流少年キース?

Edit: Heh, check out this page: http://tamahobby.com/gameboy/gameboydefunctindex.html

And "Death Ball" too!
http://tamahobby.com/gameboy/gbdefunctdeathball.htm
I have the Famitsu issue mentioned on this page, so I'll check it again.

And it seems like this guy ( http://fami.tamahobby.com/ ) has the same idea as I did: look through lots of old Famicom mags and scan unreleased/proto/interesting/weird things. Obviously he has much more free time on his hands than I do...

GDRI · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 352

ArnoldRimmer83 · Staff Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 540

I didn't know Mr Chin wasn't released in Japan. Actually I see at least 3 games there that ended up released in America. That, Skate or Die Bad n Rad, and Balloon Kid. Kind of weird Konami thought of bringing that out since they didn't release their port of Skate or Die over to Japan.

TheRedEye · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:

shuji · Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 3 Location: tokyo

Hey thanks for finding my website!
You can find some other unreleased games by searching the word 発売中止 in my blog.

Tongueman · Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 631 Location: Japan

Welcome, Shuji. Unreleased games is what this site is all about!

ArnoldRimmer83 · Staff Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 540

The screenshot is blurry, but that Kabuto game looks like it might be the same as Shogun Maeda. Does that preview mention Vic Tokai?

shuji · Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 3 Location: tokyo

Yes, the credits say (c) vic tokai (c) sho kosugi corporation. I didn't know Shogun Maeda though but it might be the same game with a different title.

TheRedEye · Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject:

Yeah, that's the same game. It was announced in the U.S. as Shogun Maeda at the same time as Sugar Thief.

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