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Prospero
Prospero (TBA)
subdirectory_arrow_right Valve (Company)
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Attachment According to The Valve Employee Handbook, during Half-Life's development in 1996, there was another game being developed called Prospero. In 1997 the game was permanently cancelled.
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Cancelled Release, Development
person PoisonTardis calendar_month June 19, 2014
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Go! Go! Cosmo Cops!
Go! Go! Cosmo Cops! (2009)
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Attachment A Japanese version of the game was planned, but was later cancelled. Despite this, the Japanese script from the cancelled release exists in the European version. It's inaccessible without a ROM patch, as it's not triggered by the DS firmware.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Regional Difference, Unused Content, Unused Text, Version Difference
person DeerBoarDude calendar_month June 12, 2014
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Platform: Dreamcast
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A Dreamcast light gun was never released in the USA until Mad Catz developed the Dream Blaster, which was reminiscent of the type 2 phaser found in Star trek. Sega did produce their own official light gun, but it wasn't sold in the United States, possibly because Sega didn't want its name on a gun in light of recent school shootings (the Columbine High School massacre).
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Cancelled Release, Development, General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person Dr. Dream354 calendar_month May 29, 2014
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RTX Red Rock
RTX Red Rock (2003)
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RTX Red Rock was originally also developed for the GameCube, but development on that version fell behind the Playstation 2 version, and neither one was going to be ready for the release date. The decision was made to shift development resources to the PS2 version so that at least one version would release on time, rather than delay both.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month May 25, 2014
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Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (2005)
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A sequel was once in the works for the game, though very few screenshots and only one gameplay video were ever released. These materials revealed new playable characters such as The Hulk and The Juggernaut. However, due to poor game sales and the eventual closing of EA and Marvel's partnership in 2008, the game was eventually cancelled.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person SOGESNAKE calendar_month May 21, 2014
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Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock
Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock (2012)
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Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock was originally intended to be part of a trilogy, however the sequels were later canceled. It's speculated that they were shelved due to the bugs present in the game at launch, and it receiving average review scores. The BBC has said that a sequel could still be made in the future, but did not have anything planned at the time.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, General, Glitch, Real Life, Rumor, Theory
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month May 18, 2014
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Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (1995)
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Donkey Kong Country 2 was originally planned for the Virtual Boy, but scrapped after only 3 weeks of development due to the commercial failure of the console. Some work had been done on the title screen, and it's unknown if any of the design work was later used for the SNES version.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person KidDivinegon calendar_month April 3, 2014
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Rayman
Rayman (1995)
subdirectory_arrow_right Rayman (Game), Rayman (Game)
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Attachment The game was originally planned for release on the Super Nintendo, and featured a 2 player co-op mode and different graphics. Although it was nearly complete, Ubisoft decided to move the project to CD-ROM based consoles, and hired cartoon animators to improve the game's graphics.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea
person CuriousUserX90 calendar_month March 26, 2014
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Grabbed by the Ghoulies
Grabbed by the Ghoulies (2003)
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Grabbed by the Ghoulies was initially being developed for the GameCube. However, Rare was bought by Microsoft partway through development, and the game was quickly re-worked for the Xbox.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea
person KidDivinegon calendar_month March 26, 2014
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (2014)
subdirectory_arrow_right Castlevania: Resurrection (Game)
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The character Victor Belmont was originally planned to appear in the cancelled Dreamcast game "Castlevania: Resurrection". Lords of Shadow 2 is the first Castlevania game to be released that Victor appears in.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, General
person pAroxizm calendar_month March 26, 2014
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Voyeur II
Voyeur II (1996)
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Attachment Voyeur II was originally intended for release on the Philips CD-i, like the previous game in the series, and that version was even completed. The port was never released, though test and prototype versions of it have since been found.
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Cancelled Release, Development
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month March 17, 2014
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Metropolis Street Racer
Metropolis Street Racer (2000)
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Metropolis Street Racer had an extremely rocky development cycle. Multiple delays of the game pushed its European release date from late 1999 to late 2000, and the Japanese release was cancelled entirely.

After its release in Europe, various bugs in the game resulted in a recall, with Sega issuing replacement discs. The re-issued European version became the US release.
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Cancelled Release, Development, General, Glitch, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person KidDivinegon calendar_month March 7, 2014
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The Warriors
The Warriors (2005)
subdirectory_arrow_right We Are The Mods (Game)
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Attachment A spiritual successor to the game was in development which internally went under the title We Are The Mods. The game was set during the mods and rockers brawls of the 1960s in England. It was originally intended to be on the PlayStation 2 but development was later switched over to the Xbox 360. Work began on the game in 2006 by Rockstar Toronto but it was later canceled with some environment and weapon models still existing for it.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month February 23, 2014
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Superman: The New Superman Adventures
Superman: The New Superman Adventures (1999)
subdirectory_arrow_right Superman: Battle for Metropolis (Game), Superman (Game)
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Attachment PlayStation and Game Boy counterparts of the game were planned but later canceled. The PlayStation version was being developed by BlueSky Software and featured completely different gameplay, without the rings and more akin to Tomb Raider. It was canceled possibly due to Titus' license expiring (though another trailer suggests it was to be published by Interplay).

In 2020, a prototype build of the game dated at June 22, 2000 was uploaded to the Internet Archive.
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Cancelled Release, Development, General, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month February 13, 2014
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Knuckles' Chaotix
Knuckles' Chaotix (1995)
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Attachment Mighty the Armadillo's sprite sheet is nearly identical to Sonic's sprite sheet from Sonic Crackers, a Genesis prototype game from which Knuckles Chaotix drew its elastic ring mechanic.

This has led fans to speculate that Sonic was originally intended to be in the game instead of Mighty, but was changed late in development. This, as well as the theory that Tails was also meant to be included, is backed up by other assets in the game, including Amy Rose being hidden in a sound test and Sonic and Tails appearing in the ending screen when the game is completed with all 7 Chaos Rings.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, Rumor, Similarities, Theory, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person MidwayCJ calendar_month February 12, 2014
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Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame (1993)
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At the end of the game Spoiler:is an old witch looking into a crystal ball, watching the prince and princess. According to Jordan Mechner, this cliffhanger was meant to set up for an unreleased Prince of Persia 3 that he was planning, where it was to be revealed that this old witch was the main antagonist of the series who gave Jaffar his powers, and was the one behind the slaughter of the prince's parents and sacking of his home city.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, General
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month January 17, 2014
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Crash Landed
Crash Landed (TBA)
subdirectory_arrow_right Crash Bandicoot (Franchise)
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Attachment A cancelled game, called "Crash Landed", was in development by Radical Entertainment. It appears it would have been a reboot of the series. The plot was based around Crash trying to save primitive bandicoots (or 'bandicutes' as they were called in the concept art) from Neo Cortex. Dingodile would have served as a secondary antagonist.

The game was cancelled in 2010 after two years of development. After Activision acquired the rights to publish the franchise, they decided to lay off the entire Radical Entertainment studio behind Crash Landed. Activision's decision to not pass the project to a different studio suddenly halted its progress forever.

The name Crash Landed would later be given to the name of a level in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time a decade later, of which according to Toys for Bob's Felix Artifex was intentionally named after the cancelled game.
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Cancelled Release, Development
person SpaceChimp calendar_month January 17, 2014
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Information about cancelled game:
http://www.crashmania.net/crash-landed/

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Level:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs48dong34w

Tweet by Felix Artifex from Toys for Bob: https://twitter.com/synchra/status/1316302399758200832
Gunvalkyrie
Gunvalkyrie (2002)
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The game was originally designed for the Sega Dreamcast. Beta footage still exists showing some gameplay and several bosses from this period of development.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea
person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month January 3, 2014
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We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
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Whilst in the United States the game featured characters from the film We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, it featured 3 different IPs in other regions. In Sweden, the game featured the cartoon character Bamse instead. In Australia, the game featured the puppet Agro and was titled "Agro Saur". In Europe, the game featured an original character called "Baby T-Rex".

A fifth version featuring the BBC puppet Edd the Duck was to be released in the United Kingdom, but was cancelled.
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Cancelled Release, Development, General, Regional Difference, Release Difference, Version Difference
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month December 17, 2013
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Resident Evil Survivor
Resident Evil Survivor (2000)
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There was a little known port of the game created with a new engine and mouse aiming support for PC. The port was only released in China and most likely due to this version being riddled with bugs and glitches all plans to release it elsewhere were cancelled.
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Cancelled Release, Console Difference, Development, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person Mass Distraction calendar_month December 11, 2013
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