This particular emulator was a piece of hardware that plugged into the back of a 64.
IIRC the 11th Hour (sequel to The Seventh Guest) was released, but years late (nowhere near DNF timeframe though)
Daikatana was also eventually released way late.
Brian
I have a book that had info on Ocarina of time; “It’s definitely going to be a 64DD title” :dubious: :rolleyes:
Madden NFL '96 on the PlayStation. Every platform, including a couple of graphing calculators and a garage door opener had a port of it, but the PS version never made it out the door. Blame is usually placed on developer Visual Concepts (who would go on to kick EA’s ass with NFL 2K5.)
Sticking with the PSX, the “system upgrade module” that was supposedly going to be necessary for Tekken 3 and Gran Turismo 2. Never happened, Tekken 3 ran just fine on the PSX.
Speaking of the PSX, although that was a sort of unofficial nickname for the original PlayStation, Sony also released a new device called the PSX in Japan. It was supposed to reach other markets but it never did. In any case it was a poor choice of name.
Superhero games could be a classification of vaporware alone. For more than ten years announcing that you were making a superhero game that was anything other than a by-the-numbers action game meant that the company would be out of business in two years. Champions, Agents of Justice, and The Indestructables are the biggest three announced, followed eagerly, and then killed the software division of Hero Games, Microprose, and Bullfrog respectively.
Didn’t Mask of Majora require a special addon that increased the RAM or something? I second the Phantom game console for nomination. Although, since they finally did kill it, I’m not sure if it still counts as vaporware anymore.
The expansion pak for the N64? That was real, I got one free with Donkey Kong. It was necessary for some games like Donkey Kong and Mask of Majora IIRC and helped others like Perfect Dark (which ran in a cut down mode without it)
I recall there being a game called Bishop Six in which the main character was supposed to be a British SAS officer, which involved some sort of aliens-are-among-us conspiracy and seemed quite promising. No idea what happened to it, though…
Fallout 3 which has already been mentioned, is another notable one.
There were rumours of a sequel to Colonisation, which never eventuated either, IIRC…
Huh? I worked at 3DO for 8 years and this doesn’t ring even a faint bell.
Of course, there’s the M2…
Was the M2 the PC emulator for the 3DO console?
No, that was the 3DO Blaster. (Assuming you’re talking about a card you stick into a PC to let it run 3DO games).
M2 was 3DO’s next generation system, which was sold to Matsushita for 100 million dollars, and then never really released. I worked on a nearly-completed M2 game for quite a while.
Say, Max, a buddy of mine claimed to have worked for 3DO composing music for their games, I’m thinking that he’s probably full of it. If I ran his name past you, is there any chance you might recognize it?