Unreleased & Unfinished Games Thread

[guest5175]

I have written a couple of articles about Midway's prototypes, I will have to share that here in a moment. In the meantime:

K.O. Drive (Prototype) by Sega Amusements - Amusement Expo 2013

Sega teased K.O. Drive for quite a while but they couldn't seem to decide what they wanted with it and it was quietly canned. It was a vehicular combat game, one version I played felt like a more serious kart racer, another had an interesting level-up element to it. But it wasn't perfect either way. This was developed by a Sega-owned Chinese studio under direction of Sega Amusements UK (which is in charge of a lot of the current developments taking place for their arcade stuff)

[guest5175]

Williams 1983 video game promo video

12 min in is the only known footage of Midway's Devastator by Steve Ritchie. This promo video shows a few other games that never made it into production, including Speed Ball.

I recently compiled info on Midway's arcade protos for these posts, there is a bit of info to be found here especially in part 2:

http://arcadeheroes.com/2013/05/27/midways-arcade-prototypes-of-the-past/

http://arcadeheroes.com/2013/08/19/midways-unreleased-arcade-prototypes-of-the-past-part-2/

[Minerals]

That K.O. Drive looked pretty good, not that dis-similar to Sonic All-Stars but with more of a Daytona theme.

[guest5175]

It was fun, it needed some work but as mentioned they kept showing different software for it and they couldn't decide on which version they wanted to do. No one seemed really excited about it but in part that's because the arcade industry has a lot of racers to choose from, sometimes too many.

[TrekMD]

A few interesting things posted.  That robot wrestling game is cool!  Too bad it didn't make it to release.

[guest5175]

Yeah I would love to get my hands on the prototype. Sadly it's probably collecting dust in a warehouse somewhere :/ It was a really fun game, simple but visceral, kind of like a pinball game.

Speaking of Namco, here is an unreleased sequel to Starblade that was shown about 13 years ago. The dome cabinet design was modified and used for the "Gundam pod" games famous to Japan and the pod design officially landed just a few weeks ago in the US and Europe with the release of Namco's new Mach Storm arcade game.

Starblade : Operation Blue Planet from NAMCO

UGSF ARCHIVE #001 STAR BLADE OPERATION BLUE PLANET

Also around the same time Namco and Nintendo was working on an arcade version of Starfox, which was canned after they apparently couldn't get the frame rate up to an acceptable level:

[TL]

[align=center:uqq99p58]A couple of the more obscure unreleased games for the Atari Lynx!

Marlboro Go! Atari Lynx

Atari Lynx Poker Prototype - Auto Hold Mode[/align:uqq99p58]

[TrekMD]

Marlboro Go! is one of the games that I have. 

[Greyfox]

Some amazing proto-type arcade games up there, thanks for sharing

[TL]

[align=center:1kenn2f0]Beanball Benny Sega Genesis Unrelease prototype[/align:1kenn2f0]

[zapiy]

That looks pretty decent..

[TrekMD]

That looks interesting and the characters are funny.

[TL]

[align=center:1li69lf2]dragon's lair - the adventure continues prototype for Mega Drive (demo mode)[/align:1li69lf2]

[Minerals]

Looks pretty similar to the SNES version

[zapiy]

[align=center:1l7jzgpp]A couple of the more obscure unreleased games for the Atari Lynx!

Marlboro Go! Atari Lynx

Atari Lynx Poker Prototype - Auto Hold Mode[/align:1l7jzgpp]

How can I get these? If at all possible?