Shooters That were promised but Never made it out!!!!!

[Thunder Force]

What ever happened to Technosoft? They were by far the number 1 shmup company of the 90's

As far as I know, they dissappeared some time around 2000, after making a bunch of RPG's. However, rumour has it that they are hireing new staff and are on their way back!

That sounds like a wishful joke not a rumor.

[K-J N.]

Some more unreleased portable shooters.

Gameboy Color

Uridium


Tyrian 2000 (more here)

Gameboy Advance
Tyrian 2000
Sanxion

[gigadrive32]

Curse for Genesis:
made by Micronet was meant to to be published by INTV Corporation



Curse was advertised in magazine ads and reviewed in EGM - but Curse never made it out in the U.S.





- It only came out for the Megadrive in Japan

[Kiken]

Viewpoint 64 (for Nintendo 64)

I remember seeing screenshots of this 3D update/pseudo sequel in DieHard Gamefan... then it suddenly disappeared.

[M0nk3y]

Interceptor
Star Seed
Protious Zone

All by Coconuts Japan for the Virtualboy.

Kiken - never knew about VP64. Found some screens though.







Me wants...

[Wanderer]

1944: The Loop Master - Dreamcast - Capcom

Was this based on rumor? If not, please provide details.

[K-J N.]

The Gameboy Color version of Section 7.

There is a cell phone version but pretty much all of Karma Studios anounced GBC games (except one) is gone from their site and I can't find any info on them apart from some old previews. Still have the pack of mp3 files from their GBC games that was available on their site.

[K-J N.]

Some Commodore 64 shooters that never made it:
Lethal Xcess
Armalyte 2
Darius +
Orcus
Return of the Lions
to mention just a coupple.

More at Games That Weren't C64 (great site).

[zinger]

What ever happened to Technosoft? They were by far the number 1 shmup company of the 90's

As far as I know, they dissappeared some time around 2000, after making a bunch of RPG's. However, rumour has it that they are hireing new staff and are on their way back!

That sounds like a wishful joke not a rumor.

May be. Impossible to ignore however, especially after all the talking here on shmups.com about it.

[Super Laydock]

I am sorry, but I just can't help bringing the game up again.

Native for the Atari Jaguar:







some small vids can be found here:

http://www.duranik.com/english/jaguar.html

[BrianC]

Some more unreleased portable shooters.

Gameboy Color

Uridium


Tyrian 2000 (more here)

Gameboy Advance
Tyrian 2000
Sanxion

There's actually a ROM available for the GBC and GBA versions of Tyrian 2000 available on the internet. Oddly enough, the GBC version is far superior to the GBA version. I'm not sure if these are public domain, though.

[ST Dragon]

Axelay 2

I believe it. any info on it that you remember?

I'll bet it was mentioned in magazines sometime during the mid to late 1990s...

Yep, it's true...

If you complete Axelay in hard mode, you'll get this:

"See you again at: Axelay 2"!?

It's a pity KONAMI Never made this!

I am sorry, but I just can't help bringing the game up again.

Native for the Atari Jaguar:







some small vids can be found here:

http://www.duranik.com/english/jaguar.html

I've never heard of this before!
It seems that it borows elements form other shooters like pulstar, blazing star, R-Type & Apidya.

That Praying Mantis Boss looks just like the one at the end of Medows Edge level in Apidya (AMIGA)

And that Boss thing with the spot light, I don't think there is anything similar in any other shooter.


Again, pity this was never released...
Was it a Euro developement team behind this one?


I remember reading an article in AMIGA Format Magazine back in 1993, that Team 17 were developing Project X-2 for the A1200, with enhanced 256 colour graphics n stuff, but it was released for the PSX in 1996 instead.


As for Thunder Force VI...

This is some nice concept art & modeling.



http://liberty-hp.ddo.jp/tf/thunderfutu ... _2004.html

[llabnip]

Though it was not "announced" Toaplan Shooting Battle - Vol 1 sort of implied there would be more. This is perhaps the worst omission in terms of shooter games that could have been... arcade perfect (within reason) ports of the entire Toaplan library. Sniff... sniff... no, it's okay, that's just dust causing my eyes to water...

[D]

Not promised, but more or less announced:

Dennin Aleste 2 - Mega CD - Compile
Thunder Force VI - Dreamcast? - Tecno Soft
Shienryu 2 - Dreamcast - Warashi

Shienryu 2, is this the the thingie in Shienryu Double?

[Kron]

Damu Deva - Arc system works (2002 possibly Naomi)

[Super Laydock]

Native for the Atari Jaguar: ...

Again, pity this was never released...
Was it a Euro developement team behind this one?

It was developped by a German team (Duranik).

Duranik is said to be working on a new shooter project, but this time for the Dreamcast (hence the DC with the fish on it in the top bar of his website).
Let's hope there'll be some info soon and that it'll see a release this time.

[ROBOTRON]

- wow.

Native looks friggin' sweet.

[jp]

Wasn't Native being ported to the DC at one point? But cancelled in lieu of a new game?

[ST Dragon]

Are they supposed to be porting Native to the DC, or is it a completly new game?

[Super Laydock]

Wasn't Native being ported to the DC at one point? But cancelled in lieu of a new game?

There werw indeed rumours of Duranik porting/finishing the game for the Dreamcast.
It became clear however that this was not the case.
Duranik is developping a DC shooter, but a totaly new one.

[M0nk3y]

Well if they can make a Jaguar game that looks that nice, I'd love to see what they can pull-off on the DC.

Shame that Native never made it out. The Jag community is still very big though, plenty of homebrew/canned games getting released. I'd get a Jag just to play Native and AvP. Surely it deserves a DC release? Can't let all that code and graphics go to waste.