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| − | Over the course of the [[Sega Mega Drive]]'s lifetime, a number of games went unreleased. [[Sega VR]] games are not listed here — see the main article for details.
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| − | | Cancelled near completion or late in development
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| − | | Cancelled during development
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| − | | Cancelled early in development — but known to be playable
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| − | | One particular version unreleased
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| − | |''[[AD2001]]''/''[[Power Ball AD2001]]''
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| − | |[[HiCom]]
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| − | |[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/specials/special-lost2.htm Info on this page is all that's known.]
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| − | |''[[Akira]]''
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| − | |[[THQ]]
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| − | |[http://www.unseen64.net/2010/03/24/akira-genesis-mega-cd-snes-unreleased/ Shown in Player One #44, Console Plus #44, and Console Plus #35.] Cancelled for unknown reasons.
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| − | |''[["Amegedon" Project]]''
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| − | |??
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| − | |[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/specials/special-lost2.htm Info on this page is all that's known.]
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| − | |''[[Bean Ball Benny]]''
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| − | |[[Nuvision]]
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| − | |Cancelled when Nuvision went under. Lost Levels is known to have put up a CES flier for the game, but hasn't properly labelled it as such (TODO).
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| − | |''[[Beyond Zero Tolerance]]''
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| − | |[[Technopop]]
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| − | |The sequel to ''[[Zero Tolerance]]''. Cancelled when Technopop closed down. The copyright holders eventually released a prototype ROM to the Internet.
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| − | |''[[City Heroes]]''
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| − | |[[Samsung]]
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| − | |All that's known comes from [http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/specials/special-lost.htm this Hardcore Gaming 101 article]: Developed by the ''[[Uzu Keobukseon]]'' team and intended for international release; it was cancelled because the then-new South Korean game censorship laws were so confusing that they got lost trying to censor the otherwise completed game.
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| − | |''[[Converse Hardcore Hoops]]''/''[[Converse City Ball Tour]]''
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| − | |[[Virgin]]
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| − | |[http://www.unseen64.net/2010/06/19/converse-hardcore-hoops-cancelled/ Announced in GamePro #72 and CD Consoles #8.] Cancelled for unknown reasons.
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| − | |''[[Cybernauts: The Next Breed]]''
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| − | |[[Accolade]]
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| − | |[http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?8986-Unreleased-Games-quot-Fireteam-Rogue-quot-and-quot-Cybernauts-quot Advertised by Accolade in the packages for some of their later games... and a lot of other places too.] [http://www.snescentral.com/article.php?id=0113 Cancelled along with ''Fireteam Rogue'' below because they were overmarketed to the point that there would be no realistic way to have the games completed the way they were advertised and still be fun — so new Accolade management dropped them.]
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| − | |''[[Dando]]''/''[[Vasum]]''
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| − | |[[Treco]]
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| − | |[http://homepage.mac.com/greggillis/images/19891990/dandoAd.jpg Advertised in magazines, but no actual info is known.] ('''MAGAZINE SOURCE UNVERIFIED — TODO''')
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| − | |''[[Devil Buster]]''
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| − | |[[SIMS]]
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| − | |[http://www.unseen64.net/2009/03/03/devil-buster-mdg-cancelled/ Shown in the April 1993 issue of Beep!.]] Cancelled for unknown reasons.
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| − | |''[[DNAction: The New Breed]]''
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| − | |[[Accolade]]
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| − | |[ Shown in Games World #1, Banzzai Magazine #21, GamePro #56, and Player One #4.] Cancelled for unknown reasons.
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| − | |''[[DynoBlaze]]''
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| − | |[[Bonsai]], [[Virgin]]
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| − | |[http://www.unseen64.net/2009/08/06/dyno-blaze-genesis-mega-drive-cancelled/ A press release was released by Virgin, and is now mirrored on unseen64.] Cancelled for unknown reasons.
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| − | |Yes, but not actively circulated (and is a completely different build from the one used to take the existing screenshots and footage)
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| − | |''[[Environmental Detective]]''
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| − | |[[Magicom]]
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| − | |[http://www.unseen64.net/2010/05/03/environmental-detective-snes-gen-md-cancelled/ Shown in some issue of Mean Machine ('''TODO FIND OUT WHICH''').] Cancelled for unknown reasons.
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| − | |''[[Explode Star]]''
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| − | |[[NCS]]
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| − | |The Japanese release of ''[[Trampoline Terror!]]''. Cancelled for unknown reasons. [http://retrogaming.blog128.fc2.com/blog-entry-11.html Promotional] [http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/secret/MD__1990Q4.html fliers] were distributed before the game was cancelled. ('''FLIER DISTRIBUTION METHOD UNVERIFIED — TODO''')
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| − | |''[[Fire & Ice]]''
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| − | |[[Graftgold]]
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| − | |Cancelled for unknown reasons.
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| − | |''[[Fireteam Rogue]]''
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| − | |[[Accolade]]
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| − | |[http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?8986-Unreleased-Games-quot-Fireteam-Rogue-quot-and-quot-Cybernauts-quot Advertised by Accolade in the packages for some of their later games... and a lot of other places too.] [http://www.snescentral.com/article.php?id=0113 Cancelled along with ''Cybernauts: The Next Breed'' above because they were overmarketed to the point that there would be no realistic way to have the games completed the way they were advertised and still be fun — so new Accolade management dropped them.]
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| − | |''[[Flash Point]]''
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| − | |[[Sega]]
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| − | |Cancelled for unknown reasons (presumably for the same reason ''[[Tetris]]'' was pulled from production after some copies had shipped).
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| − | |''[[Halloween Capsule]]''
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| − | |[[Softmax]]
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| − | |[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/specials/special-lost2.htm Info on this page is all that's known.] Cancelled for unknown reasons.
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| − | |''[[Hardcore]]''
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| − | |[[Digital Illusions]], [[Psygnosis]]
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| − | |[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD_oFVeYZYo&feature=player_embedded Digital Illusions, now called DICE, had nearly completed the game when publisher Psygnosis cancelled it (and according to this linked video, taking every other unfinished MD game with it — was ''ResQ'' below a victim?). According to this linked video, which is of the game being showed by DICE to a demoparty in 2010, DICE were in talks with Sony (who owns Psygnosis, who still today owns the game's distribution license) to try to get the game released somehow — these appear to have gone nowhere
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