Unreleased Mega Drive games

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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. This list also omits games that did not make it past the concept phase, like Spinny and Spike.

Name	Involved Companies	Details	ROM Found and Released?
Aarnie the Aardvark	Codemasters	Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #20.	No
AD2001/Power Ball AD2001	HiCom	Info on this page is all that's known. Was almost completed according to former HiCom employee Jason Park.	No
Akira	THQ	Shown in Player One #44, Console Plus #44, and Console Plus #35. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Al Unser Jnr Racing	Software Toolworks	Featured at Summer CES 1994.	No
Aliens	Konami	Mentioned in Mean Machines #2.	No
"Amegedon" Project	Softmax	Info on this page is all that's known.	No
The Ancient Art of War in the Skies	MicroProse	Mentioned in Mean Machines Sega #10. Released on DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.	No
Andre Panza Kick Boxing	Electro Brain	Mentioned in GamePro #33; possibly became Best of the Best: Championship Karate	No
Aspect Warriors	Electronic Arts	This Unseen64 page shows magazine scans (TODO IDENTIFY WHICH MAGAZINE) which is all that's known about this game.	No
Beastball	Spectrum HoloByte	Released by MrMark0673	Yes
Battle Mission	Sega, Renovation	Cancelled for unknown reasons. This Unseen64 page has no text — only two magazine scans (TODO IDENTIFY WHICH MAGAZINE) — and that is all that's known about this game.	No
Battle Smash	Kaneko	Shown in Beep MD, along with ad.	No
B-Bomb	Sega	Shown in EGM #39. More information. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Beethoven's 2nd: The Quest for Pups	Designer Software, Hi Tech Expressions	Featured at Winder CES 1993. drx has a prototype but has yet to release it.	No
Benefactor	Digital Illusions	Amiga game that Psygnosis canned for the MD. To be released in December 1994 according to German SEGA Magazin 6/1994.	No
Bill's Tomato Game	Psygnosis	Cancelled for unknown reasons. A prototype cartridge was sold in 2009. Video of the game from the seller. The buyer later sold it (TODO preserve the auction page)	Yes
Blood Money	Psygnosis	Cancelled for unknown reasons. Matt Furniss, the game's composer, confirmed its existence on Sega-16.	No
Bobby's World	Riedel Software Productions, Hi Tech Entertainment	Info on this page is all that's known.	No
Bounty Hunter	Sega	Planned as a bundled release with the Activator as of GamePro #50 with a slated release date of December 1993.	No
Brett Hull 2	Accolade	Mentioned in German SEGA Magazin 6/94 and to be released just months after the first game. In the end the first game didn't even make it to Europe.	No
Casper (Mega Drive)	Riedel Software Productions, Hi Tech Expressions	Info on this page is all that's known.	No
Chessmaster 2100	Software Toolworks	Released for PC. Shown at Winter CES 1992.	No
City Heroes	Samsung	All that's known comes from 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.	No
Combat Aces	Baton Technologies?	Cancelled due to the lack of release of the Teleplay Modem. Programmed by Chuck Peavey.	Yes
Congo (Mega Drive)	Viacom	Cancelled for unknown reasons. Not sure if this is a prototype of an unreleased game or an unlicensed game. The SNES Congo appears to be an entirely different game, despite the SNES one being based on and the MD one appearing to be based on the film. Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #35.	Yes
Converse Hardcore Hoops/Converse City Ball Tour	Virgin	Announced in GamePro #72 and CD Consoles #8. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Cool Spot 3	Virgin	Probably only a working title but what ever happened to the success with Spot? Mentioned in German SEGA Magazin 6/97. To be released in April 1995.	No
Cybernauts: The Next Breed	Accolade	Advertised by Accolade in the packages for some of their later games... and a lot of other places too. 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. Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #20.	No
Dan Marino's Touch Down Football	Virgin Games	Mentioned in Mean Machines Sega #10. Probably the same game as below.	No
Dan Marino Power Play Football	Virgin, Park Place Productions	GDRI - what is their source?	No
Dando/Vasum	Treco	Advertised in magazines, but no actual info is known. (MAGAZINE SOURCE UNVERIFIED — TODO)	No
Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat	Tradewest	Cancelled for unknown reasons. DreamTR acquired a copy of the prototype and sent it to MrMark0673, who combined text on the prototype with art from the released NES version of the game to form a 50-copy reproduction run that ran in the summer of 2011. Whether or not a ROM dump from the original or pictures of the original will come has yet to be determined.	No
Devil Buster	SIMS	Shown in the April 1993 issue of Beep!. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Die Hard Trilogy	Fox Interactive	Mentioned in Mean Machines Sega #24.	No
Dinoblades (Dynablaze?)	Virgin. Tahoe Software Productions	GDRI - what is their source? Is this DynoBlaze below?	No
Dino Racers	Maximum Effect, Codemasters	Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #23. Started January 1994	No
DNAction: The New Breed	Accolade	Shown in Games World #1, Banzzai Magazine #21, GamePro #56, and Player One #4. Cancelled for unknown reasons. To be released in autumn 1994 according to German SEGA Magazin.	No
Doctor Who	Sega	Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #22. Apparently connected to the 1996 TV movie.	No
Dragon's Lair: The Adventure Continues	Eden, Elite Systems, Taito	Cancelled for unknown reasons. Dumped and released by MrMark0673 in mid-2011. They claim it's a 100% complete port of the SNES game but I'm not entirely sure...?	Yes
DynoBlaze	Bonsai, Virgin	A press release was released by Bonsai/Virgin, and is still available on Bonsai's website. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	Yes, but not actively circulated (and is a completely different build from the one used to take the existing screenshots and footage — in fact, it might not even be correct)
Earl Weaver Baseball	Electronic Arts	Summer CES 1991, Sega Visions	No
Elite	Hybrid Technology	Ian Bell, one of the developers of the original BBC Micro/Acorn Electron versions of Elite, released a tech demo ROM of this version of the game — but the link appears to have died. The link here, however, works. Nothing else is really known about this version; it's presumed to have not left the tech demo state. To be released in November 1994 according to German SEGA Magazin.	Yes
Environmental Detective	Magicom	Shown in some issue of Mean Machine (TODO FIND OUT WHICH). Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
EXP: The Excellent Potato	Open Production	Info on this page is all that's known. A DOS version was completed and released in Korea.	No
Explode Star	NCS	The Japanese release of Trampoline Terror!. Cancelled for unknown reasons. Promotional fliers were distributed before the game was cancelled. (FLIER DISTRIBUTION METHOD UNVERIFIED — TODO)	No
Feels	Sega	Cancelled for unknown reasons. Platform game from Sega to be released in autumn 1994 according to a list in German SEGA Magazin 6/94. Hard to say it changed name. This is probably the same Feel known to have evolved into Ristar.	No
Fireteam Rogue	Accolade	Advertised by Accolade in the packages for some of their later games... and a lot of other places too. 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. Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #20 and #21. To be released in late 1994.	No
Fun Car Rally	MagiCom	Prototype of Accolade's Combat Cars. BKK on Sega-16 reveals that MCOM in the game's ROM is likely to be MagiCom because they were developing Mega Drive games around the ROM's date, and one person who worked with them later founded Funcom, who held the rights to Combat Cars before Accolade. The title music appears to have been taken from The Beach Boys' Fun Fun Fun (or possibly Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode). The name entry music may be Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed by Matt Bianco. The reasons for the title and music changes are unknown.	Yes
Future Zone	Electro Brain	Featured at CES 1993 and GamePro #45.	No
Global Golf	Codemasters	Cancelled for unknown reasons. A Master System version was also in progress. Should have been almost complete because it was in a list in German SEGA Magazin 6/94 (June) and set to be released in July the same year. Belived to be "Ernie Els Golf" that only came to the Game Gear.	No
Goal!	Virgin	Cancelled for unknown reasons. Maybe when Psygnosis canned all Mega Drive games? Was it a port of the Dini & Dini/Virgin Amiga game Goal!, and did Virgin bring it over as Dino Dini's Soccer?	No
Guardian Angels Safety Patrol	Nuvision Entertainment	Summer CES 1991	No
Halloween Capsule	Softmax	Info on this page is all that's known. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Hanna Barbera's Turbo Toons	Empire Interactive	Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #22. Only released on SNES in Europe.	No
Hardcore	Digital Illusions, Psygnosis	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. Game also shown in German SEGA Magazin 8/1994.	No
The Head	Alexandria	GDRI (what is their source?)	No
Hellfire Run	Panoramic Software	GDRI - what is their source?	No
Heretic	Probe	Atod worked on a version for Mega Drive but Probe let them go on with the port of Hexen to Saturn instead.	No
Highway Encounter	Vortex	Mark Haigh-Hutchinson said to have developed Amiga, Atari ST, and Mega Drive versions in 1990, none of which were released. A prototype of the Atari ST version has been released	No
Hooves of Thunder	RazorSoft	Mentioned in Mean Machines Sega #10 and GamePro #33.	No
IF	HiCom	Info on this page is all that's known. A DOS version was also in development, but unreleased as well.	No
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures	Factor 5, US Gold	Reviewed in GamePro and German GAMERS. Conversion from the SNES game. Reportedly completed in EGM preview. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Impossible Mission 2025: The Special Edition	Microprose	Featured at Winter CES 1993. Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #17	No
Interplanetary Lizards of the Texas Plains	Tengen, Alexandria (GDRI - what is their source?)	Featured at Winter CES 1993. This Unseen64 page shows a magazine scan (TODO IDENTIFY THE MAGAZINE) which is all that's known about this game. Planned to be released in spring 1994 according to German SEGA Magazin 3/94.	No
The Itchy and Scratchy Game	Bits, Acclaim	Cancelled for unknown reasons. Said to be released in the summer of 1994 according to German SEGA Magazin 7/94.	Yes
It Came from the Desert	Cinemaware, Electronic Arts	Cinemaware released the prototype ROM. An interview with the lead programmer on the project reveals that the game was "99.99%" complete when cancelled and that it was cancelled because publisher Electronic Arts wanted to focus only on sports games from then on (that didn't happen).	Yes
Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road Baja 1000	Williams Entertainment	Announced at Summer CES 1994, mentioned in Mean Machines Sega #23. Sequel to Super Off Road, only released on SNES. 1994-11	No
Jesse 'The Body' Ventura Wrestling Superstars	DreamWorks	Summer CES 1991, GamePro #33	No
Jester	STI	A rather elusive game; very little is known about it (though SOA did advertise it). Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Jimmy Connors Tennis	Ubi Soft	Mentioned in GamePro #33	No
Joe Montana Football (Mediagenic)/Hyperball	Mediagenic	At least 30% complete when it suffered a combination of being locked in development hell and Mediagenic's financial troubles. Was to be developed entirely at Mediagenic. The Joe Montana Football that was released is based on an engine by Electronic Arts and Park Place Productions.
Journey to the Center of the Earth	Sony Imagesoft	Shown at CES 1993 and in GamePro #45.	No
Karate Blazers	Mc O'River	Arcade game. Shown at Winter CES 1992.	No
Kartoon Kombat	Technos, Elite	A damaged prototype ROM handed to MrMark0673 on a floppy disk from Elite is all that is known of this game. Cancelled for unknown reasons. (MAGAZINE SOURCE ON UNSEEN64 PAGE UNVERIFIED — TODO). Featured at Summer CES 1994.	No
Keeper of the Gates	Razorsoft	Supposedly a sequel to the MD version of Stormlord. Shown in EGM #40 and #41. Cancelled for unknown reasons. Released for home computers. Shown at Winter CES 1992.	No
Kung Fu: The Legends Continue	Sunsoft	Featured at Winter CES 1993	No
Land Buster	Seismic	Cancelled for unknown reasons. This Unseen64 page has no text — only two magazine scans (TODO IDENTIFY WHICH MAGAZINE) — and that is all that's known about this game.	No
Lennox Lewis Boxing	Acclaim, Park Place Productions	GDRI - what is their source?	No
Lil Divil/Litil Divil	Gremlin	Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #22. Planned for November 1994. Released on DOS, CD-i and Amiga CD32.	No
Lobo	Ocean	Reviewed in EGM and GamePro. Cancelled for unknown reasons. Found and dumped by SEGASaturno and released by drx.	Yes
The Lord of the Rings (EA)	EA	Shown at Winter CES 1992 and mentioned in early EA print advertisements. Planned release date for 1992.	No
Lothar Matthäus Super Soccer	Krisalis	The game is called "Manchester United Championship Soccer" in UK and "Lothar Matthäus Super Soccer" in Germany but was only released to the SNES. A Mega Drive version were planned for and shown in German SEGA Magazin 1/95.	No
Madness: House of Fun	Gremlin Graphics	Shown in Mean Machine #17 and Mega Force #17. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse	Capcom	Featured at Winter CES 1994. Originally released for SNES.	No
Magician's Castle	Psygnosis	Featured at Winter CES 1993	No
Mall Rats	Software Toolworks	Featured at Summer CES 1994.	No
Matrix	Accolade	Featured at Summer CES 1994.	No
Maverick: SFG	Sage's Creation	Featured at Winter CES 1992 and mentioned in GamePro #33.
Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City	EA	Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #25. Released on SNES.	No
Miina in Wonderland		[1]	no
Mission Impossible	Ocean	Developer unknown. Shown in Joypad #44, Top Consoles #4, and Console Plus #45. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Monster Hunter	??	This Menacer game was only known to be shown in EGM #51.	No
Moon Dancer	?	Cancelled for unknown reasons. This Unseen64 page has no text — only two magazine scans from EGM #10 — and that is all that's known about this game.	No
MTV Sports: Extreme	Viacom	Featured at Summer CES 1994.	No
Mr. Nutz 2	Neon, Ocean	Reviewed in several European magazines. The game is a conversion of Mr. Nutz: Hoppin' Mad for the Amiga and has been reported being completed by the main programmer, Peter Thierolf, who still keeps a fully finished game ROM but cannot release it due to copyright issues. Game screenshots running on Gens emulator were taken by him. Source code of the game was released and compiled in a full ROM.	Yes
M. Tuff	SCI	Said to be released to both MD & M-CD in January 1995 according to German SEGA Magazin 6/94. A SNES ROM exists at least.	No
Ninja Gaiden IV	Sega	Shown in Gamefan #1 and EGM #37 — which shows pictures from Level 2 of the Ninja Gaiden ROM above. Not sure if this is still the same as Ninja Gaiden above — needs investigation. Both the above ROM and this small preview come from 1992.	No
Nolan Ryan Express	Mentrix Software	1993-02	No
Operation Aliens	THQ	Mentioned in Mean Machines Sega #10. Possibly connected to the Operation Aliens animated TV pilot and toy line.	No
Pac-In-Time	???? (though Namco is involved)	Released on the SNES.	????
Payne Stewart Pro Golf
Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors	Absolute Entertainment	Featured at Summer CES 1994. The Mega CD version was cancelled too, but has since been unearthed. Mean Machines Sega Issue #23 says a Mega Drive version existed.	No
Pegasus Racer	Ringler Studios	GDRI - source	No
Pinky	Data Design Systems, Tengen	Advertised in magazines. Cancelled for unknown reasons (there are guesses as to what the reason is). (MAGAZINE SOURCE UNVERIFIED — TODO)	No
Pit Fighter II	Tengen	Shown in EGM #49. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Popeye the Sailor Man	Technos	Featured at Winter CES 1994, Shown in Console Mania #28, Game Fun #94, and Mean Machines Sega #17. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Putty Squad	System 3, Ocean	Reviewed in some European magazines. Coversion from the SNES game. Cancelled for unknown reasons. drx seems to have a working prototype of the game. Released by a Sega-16 user in October 2015	Yes
Railroad Tycoon	Microprose	Released for PC & home computers. Shown at Winter CES 1992.	No
Ratchet & Bolt	Sega	Shown in some French magazine Supersonic, July-August 1994 Moved to the 32X before cancelled.	No
ResQ	Tempest, Psygnosis	Featured at Winter CES 1993. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	Yes
Road Riot 4WD	Tengen	Shown in Joypad magazine #7, EGM #40, and EGM #41. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Road Runner	Alexandria	GDRI - what is their source?	No
Road to the Cup Hockey '94	Electro Brain, Park Place Productions	GDRI - source	No
Rocket Rescue	Hotshot	This Unseen64 page, has magazine scans ('TODO IDENTIFY WHICH MAGAZINE) which is all that's known about the game.	No
Savage Heroes	Electronic Arts	Cancelled because the project was too ambitious and the developer chosen (unknown) produced a prototype that did not impress EA managers.	No
Search for Ramses II	Tengen	Mentioned in Mean Machines Sega #10.	No
Shadow of Yserbius	AT&T	Featured at Summer CES 1994.	No
Skulljagger's Revenge	American Softworks	Featured at Summer CES 1994. Due early 1995.	No
Smaartvark/Dreyfuss Smaartvark	Codemasters	More info (might need confirmation) and magazine scan clipping (TODO IDENTIFY WHICH MAGAZINES) are at this Unseen64 page. Codemasters also advertised the game in the January 1994 EGM. Short article with screenshots in Mean Machines Sega #15. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	No
Snow White: Happily Ever After	ASC	Featured at Winter CES 1993 and Summer CES 1994.	No
Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill	Kaneko	May have originally been called Socks the Cat Rocks the House. Slated for a November 1993 release as of GamePro #50.	No
Solo Flight	Microprose	Released for home computers. Shown at Winter CES 1992.	No
Sonic-16	STI	The game was intended to tie into the Sonic the Hedgehog "SatAM" cartoon, but Sonic Team head Yuji Naka disapproved. See the linked article for more details.	No
Speed Racer	Accolade	Advertised in magazines and appears in GamePro #50. Cancelled for unknown reasons. Sometimes called "The Challenge of Racer X". First planned release March 1994 but got delayed and finally scrapped.	No
The Sporting News Virtual Soccer	Probe, Hudson Soft		No
Steven Seagal is the Final Option	TecMagik	Featured at Winter CES 1993	No
Stone Protectors	Kemco, Eurocom, VIC Tokai	Cancelled for unknown reasons. Found, dumped, and released by The NES Player.	Yes
Swamp Thing	Microsmiths, Nuvision	Cancelled when Nuvision went under. Found, dumped, and released by MrMark0673 of SegaAge.	Yes (but overdumped)
Tank Girl	Ocean	Mentioned in Mean Machines Sega #33.	No
Technocop: The Final Mission	Razor Soft	Planned sequel to Technocop show at Winter CES 1992.
Tenkuu Retsuden Musashi	Kaneko	Shown in Beep MD, along with ad. Port of arcade title "Kabuki-Z".	No
Theme Hospital	Bullfrog	Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #32.	No
Time Trax	Black Pearl Software, Malibu Interactive	Cancelled for unknown reasons. The music would have been composed by Tim Follin with a sound driver by Dean Belfield. Follin released a recording of the title screen theme on his website; it can now be found in the "Wine Cellar" section, however the link has died — someone else uploaded the song to YouTube. Dumped by assorted SegaAge members.	Yes
Troll Adventures	American Softworks	Announced at Summer CES 1994, mentioned in Mean Machines Sega #23. Probably the same as Super Troll Islands on SNES.	No
Ushra Monster Truck Wars	Acclaim Entertainment	Featured at Summer CES 1994.	No
Vampire Killer	Razor Soft	Shown at Winter CES 1992	No
Waterworld	Ocean	Previewed in Mean Machines Sega #34. Cancelled for unknown reasons.	Yes
Wheel of Fortune 2	Gametek	Mentioned for release in GamePro #54.	No
Whizz	Psygnosis, Titus Interactive	in Guardiana, some picture is available , it needs to be Upload	????
Wimbledon II	???? (Sega?)	Listed in Guardiana, even showing a box and one review. Who knows.	????
Wing Commander II	Electronic Arts	Featured at Winter CES 1994.	No
World Cup Soccer	Acclaim	Featured at CES 1993 and GamePro #45.	No
X-Women: The Sinister Virus	?? (presumably Clockwork Tortoise)	Another X-Men license. A promotional video of unknown origin and a clip from EGM #89 are all that are known about the game. It was supposedly developed by Clockwork Tortoise.	No
Zeewolf	Binary Asylum	Mentioned in Mean Machines Sega #31. Originally an Amiga game. Supposedly 90% complete.	No

Note: the Mega Drive Command & Conquer ROM, long believed to be an unreleased port, is actually an unfinished pirate.

"Concept and Design Only"

might as well

• Spinny & Spike (TODO find those references again

http://vgmdb.net/album/1818 someone (Ancient?) may have been working on a game called The Stickman is Back

http://turbo-boing.com/about Arena?

Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000 protos have SVP support strings

http://www.gamengai.com/cmnt_inf.php?id=1436&type=0

http://basiscape.com/arts_sakimoto.html quite a few here; possibly also other basiscape artists

of note: http://www.guardiana.net/MDG-Database/Mega%20Drive/Teki%20Paki/