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#REDIRECT [[List of unreleased Mega-CD games]]
 
 
{| class="prettytable sortable"
 
|-
 
!Name
 
!Involved Companies
 
!Details
 
!Dump Found and Released?
 
|-
 
|''[[The 4th Unit: Merry Go Round]]''
 
|[[Data West]]
 
|Japanese PC and FM Towns versions exist
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Akira]]''
 
|[[THQ]]
 
|Also planned for Mega Drive and Game Gear. Player One #44, Console Plus #44, Console Plus #35
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Annet Again]]''
 
|[[Wolf Team]], [[Renovation]]
 
|US release of ''[[Anetto Futatabi]]'', [http://i483.photobucket.com/albums/rr196/MathUser/1993%20Magazine%20Scans/Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_47_096.jpg shown in EGM #47]. Cancelled for unknown reasons.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Captain Commando]]''
 
|[[Capcom]]
 
|
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Battletech: Gray Death Legion]]''
 
|[[Absolute Entertainment]]
 
|To be released in 1995. Folded with the company along with Saturn port.
 
|Yes
 
|-
 
|''[[Bug Blasters: The Exterminators]]''
 
|[[Sony Imagesoft]], [[Stargate Entertainment]]
 
|Due out in 1995.
 
|Yes
 
|-
 
|''[[Burning Fists]]''
 
|[[Sega]]
 
|a.k.a. "Force Striker". Was to be released in 1994. Was "80% complete" before the axe, lacking a final boss and FMV problems. Also seen in EGM #49.
 
|Yes, early version
 
|-
 
|''[[Citizen X]]''
 
|[[Digital Pictures]]
 
|
 
|Yes
 
|-
 
|''[[Darkside]]''
 
|[[Rocket Science Games]]
 
|Aka "Dark Ride"
 
|3DO version previewed December 1994 in Games World: The Magazine. Mega CD and Saturn ports rumoured, all cancelled.
 
|-
 
|''[[Dark Seed]]''
 
|[[Cyberdreams]], [[Vic Tokai]]
 
|Saturn port exists.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Dyno Blaze]]''
 
|
 
|Also cancelled for the Mega Drive, though prototypes have been seen.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[European Racers]]''
 
|[[Revell CD]]
 
|[http://i.imgur.com/1AUBL.jpg Offered in a January 1994 EGM contest.] Cancelled for unknown reasons.
 
|No? TODO
 
|-
 
|''[[Flashback 2]]''
 
|[[Delphine Software]]
 
|[http://www.pixels-pirates.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=224:thierry-levastre&catid=9:les-acteurs-du-jv&Itemid=11 Morphed into a game called ''Fade to Black'' on other platforms]
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Grandia]]''
 
|[[Game Arts]]
 
|Work moved to Sega Saturn after Mega CD discontinuation.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]''
 
|
 
|PC port. Meant to arrive in early 1994.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Hammer vs. Evil D. in Soulfire]]''
 
|[[GTE Entertainment]]
 
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tvAIar6NB8&feature=player_embedded#at=224 video]
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]''
 
|
 
|
 
|Yes
 
|-
 
|''[[Hardcore]]''
 
|[[Digital Illusions]]
 
|Mega Drive version also exists. Planned for November 1994. Unlike the Mega Drive version which was "99%" completed, the Mega CD port didn't get very far.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Kamikaze Comics]]''
 
|[[Crystal Dynamics]]
 
|Due for release in 1994. Shares a very similar plot to [[Comix Zone]].
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Kung Fu: The Legend Continues]]''
 
|[[Sunsoft]], [[Park Place Productions]]
 
|[http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Park_Place_Productions GDRI - what is their source?]
 
|-
 
|''[[Last Action Hero]]''
 
|
 
|Released for other Sega systems, though this one included pre-rendered graphics so is probably a different game entirely.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Loadstar II: Showdown on Phobos]]''
 
|[[Rocket Science Games]]
 
|For 1995. Probably cancelled as RSG moved away from FMV games.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Marko's Magic Football]]''
 
|
 
|Mega CD port cancelled but still made its way to everything else.
 
|Yes
 
|-
 
|''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]''
 
|[[LucasArts]]
 
|
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Ookami Hei]]''
 
|[[SIMS]]
 
|2D action sidescroller compatible with six button controller. Shared an artist with ''[[Devil Buster]]''.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors]]''
 
|[[Absolute Entertainment]]
 
|Cancelled when Absolute died.
 
|Yes; dump format unknown (BIN/CUE? ISO?)
 
|-
 
|''[[Phantasy Star IV: The Return of Alis]]''
 
|[[Sega]]
 
|Both Mega CD and Mega Drive ports were once in development, only the latter survived.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Polygon Golf]]''
 
|[[Hertz]]
 
|Cancelled when the studio went under.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Pop N Land]]''
 
|[[Takeru]]/[[Sur de Wave]]?
 
|[http://www.unseen64.net/2011/09/12/popn-land-sega-mega-cd-cancelled/] Import mail-order store page in the first issue of EGM2 lists a Mega Drive release?
 
|-
 
|''[[Power Drift]]''
 
|[[Sega]]
 
|Eventually saw a home port on the Sega Saturn.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Shadow of Atlantis]]''
 
|
 
|Killed following Mega CD discontinuation (or 32X... I think it was meant to be a Mega CD 32X game). Sometimes known as "Nautilus". Some very fancy and expensive demo videos exist.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[The Strangers]]''
 
|[[Malibu Interactive]]
 
|EGM #59 shows a very, very early version, circa mid-1994. Likely cancelled due to Malibu Interactive closing in the same year.
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Time Cop]]''
 
|
 
|
 
|Yes
 
|-
 
|''[[World Rally]]''
 
|
 
|
 
|No
 
|-
 
|''[[Ys IV: Mask of the Sun]]''
 
|[[Sega Falcom]]
 
|
 
|No
 
|-
 
|}
 
Note: many un-released (and homebrew) US games ones have since been unofficially released by [http://www.gooddealgames.com/inventory/Sega%20CD.html Good Deal Games].
 
 
 
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