Unreleased Megadrive game from Digital Illusions demoed

mic_ · Post by **mic_** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:03 pm

Youtube video

Some of you might've seen this already. It's a platform shooter that DI was developing for the Megadrive back in 1994, but never got released because the publisher cancelled it at the last minute. Which is a shame because the game looks really good, and the music is awesome.

The video is from a recent swedish old-school computer party where two of the founders of DI were showing off the game.

Edge-` · Post by **Edge-`** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:18 pm

Very cool stuff! Thanks for sharing, mic!

Chilly Willy · Post by **Chilly Willy** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:26 pm

Edge-` wrote:Very cool stuff! Thanks for sharing mic!

Mic is being shared? How is that even possible?

Or did you possibly mean, "Thanks for sharing, mic!"?

Oh, and the video is awesome, too.

Edge-` · Post by **Edge-`** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:30 pm

Chilly Willy wrote:
Mic is being shared? How is that even possible?

Or did you possibly mean, "Thanks for sharing, mic!"?

Yes, I did. Thanks for pointing that out. I need to try a bit hard to clean up my messy Internet grammar.

MottZilla · Post by **MottZilla** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:55 pm

Looks pretty cool and seems like a real shame they canceled it. Hopefully they'll manage to release it to the public domain somehow.

TmEE co.(TM) · Post by **TmEE co.(TM)** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 11:59 pm

This is so awesome

notaz · Post by **notaz** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:03 pm

MottZilla wrote:Looks pretty cool and seems like a real shame they canceled it. Hopefully they'll manage to release it to the public domain somehow.

Agreed.

It was said "13 games were canceled [by Psygnosis] in an afternoon meeting", I wonder what the other 12 were.

dtech · Post by **dtech** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:59 pm

Interesting game, quite qell programmed (it seems). If guys will release full rom bin into public domain, along with "the one remining bug to squish" - it would be definitely cool. But I don't think so. The desperation to squeeze down to the last penny out of every long ago abandoned project is highly likely to prevail.

A game itself seems to be a blend of of Contra HardCorps gameplay/shootingfx/explosions/bosses/continue_screen, Red Zone style music and fm instruments (actually sound even like the same tracker/tools have been used to compose with same instrument sets), and so much mentioned in comments - Mega Turrican

Anyways, would realy like to see (and hear) the full version rom of it running on kegafusion. Otherwise it could be just an another waporware.