Lost Levels Takes On Hard Driving, More!
Co-worker Frank, who is doing a sterling job arranging our upcoming Gamasutra coverage of next week's GDC, has also been posting some new stories of unreleased games over at his v.fun site, Lost Levels.
The front page itself explains: "While browsing through the Mean Machines Archive today, I stumbled on something pretty unexpected: the first screenshots I’ve ever seen of Hard Drivin’ for the NES, Tengen’s unreleased port of Atari’s driving simulator-turned-arcade racing game!"
In addition, the forums have an overview of a guest review of Time Diver: Eon Man, which reveals: "Time Diver was an action platformer for the NES, scheduled to be released by Taito in February of 1993. I'm not saying the game is bad, mind you; just generic. It could easily be a dozen other games, and at least seven of those would be Ninja Gaiden. It's a simple five level sprint through every cliche of the NES era, and I can only assume that this sameness made Taito question the title's sales potential." Well-researched and wacky.
Comments
Ah, another amazing Lost Levels update. Thanks for the tip!
Posted by: gnome | March 4, 2007 7:08 AM
Hard Drivin' for the NES! What a wild concept.
I can actually think of a way it could be made to work, although it would make the graphics terribly blocky. Yet still, the idea that it could be possible at all is amazing. Somehow, however, I get the feeling that it never saw the light of day because it really couldn't have worked, not the way people would expect it to.
Posted by: John H. | March 4, 2007 11:56 AM