Unreleased Mega Drive games
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Over the course of the Sega Mega Drive's lifetime, a number of games went unreleased:
Name | Involved Companies | Details | ROM Found and Released? |
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AD2001/Power Ball AD2001 | HiCom | Info on this page is all that's known. | No |
Akira | THQ | Shown in Player One #44, Console Plus #44, and Console Plus #35. Cancelled for unknown reasons. | No |
"Amegedon" Project | ?? | Info on this page is all that's known. | No |
Bean Ball Benny | Nuvision | 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). | No |
Beyond Zero Tolerance | Technopop | The sequel to Zero Tolerance. Cancelled when Technopop closed down. The copyright holders eventually released a prototype ROM to the Internet. | Yes |
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 |
Converse Hardcore Hoops/Converse City Ball Tour | Virgin | Announced in GamePro #72 and CD Consoles #8. Cancelled for unknown reasons. | No |
Dando | Treco | Advertised in magazines, but no actual info is known. (MAGAZINE SOURCE UNVERIFIED — TODO) | No |
DNAction: The New Breed | Accolade | [ Shown in Games World #1, Banzzai Magazine #21, GamePro #56, and Player One #4.] Cancelled for unknown reasons. | No |
Environmental Detective | Magicom | Shown in some issue of Mean Machine (TODO FIND OUT WHICH). Cancelled for unknown reasons. | 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 |
Fire & Ice | Graftgold | Cancelled for unknown reasons. | No |
Flash Point | Sega | Cancelled for unknown reasons (presumably for the same reason Tetris was pulled from production after some copies had shipped). | Yes |
Halloween Capsule | Softmax | Info on this page is all that's known. Cancelled for unknown reasons. | No |
Jester | STI | A rather elusive game; very little is known about it (though SOA did advertise it). Cancelled for unknown reasons. | No |
Jim Power: The Arcade Game | Loriciel | Cancelled due to "financial troubles." | Yes (but is marked as a bad dump for unknown reasons) |
Lobo | Ocean | Cancelled for unknown reasons. Found and dumped by SEGASaturno and released by drx. | Yes |
Madness: House of Fun | Gremlin Graphics | Shown in Mean Machine #17 and Mega Force #17. Cancelled for unknown reasons. | No |
Monster Hunter | ?? | This Menacer game was only known to be shown in EGM #51. | No |
Ninja Gaiden | Tecmo, Sega | Cancelled for unknown reasons. | Yes (but with hacked headers) |
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 |
Popeye | Technos | Shown in Console Mania #28, Game Fun #94, and Mean Machine #17. Cancelled for unknown reasons. | No |
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame | Broderbund | Cancelled for unknown reasons. Found by DreamTR, dumped by jurai, and released by drx. | Yes |
ResQ | Tempest, Psygnosis | Cancelled for unknown reasons. | Yes |
Slam: Shaq vs. the Legends | Tiburon | Released by drx. | Yes |
Socks the Cat | Kaneko | Advertised in magazines. Cancelled for unknown reasons. (MAGAZINE SOURCE UNVERIFIED — TODO) | No |
Speed Racer | Accolade | Advertised in magazines. Cancelled for unknown reasons. (MAGAZINE SOURCE UNVERIFIED — TODO) | No |
Speedway Pro Challenge | Renovation Products | The planned American localization of Human's 1991 Mega Drive game Fastest 1. Cancelled for unknown reasons. Box scans exist. | 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) |
Zombie High | Electronic Arts | Cancelled for unknown reasons. | Yes |
Note: the Mega Drive Command & Conquer ROM, long believed to be an unreleased port, is actually an unfinished pirate.