Ep - 104 The Canceled Game Conundrum! (Part 1)
On this weeks episode of RetroLogic Sam and John are joined by none other than the Two Dollar Hero himself to talk about what could have been! Canceled games (Part1) The RetroLogic crew goes through history pulling out all the canceled games they wish would have went gold! Introduction Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Sam Wagers here with , John Cummins and returning guest Seth of the All N Podast! How are you? But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast. It’s a community of retro gamers! - We’ve got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, Filmlogic, streaming and movie film podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games Housekeeping Sam: Now Streaming Battle Network 3 Blue! MMBN3 Quest for 100% completion - the end?, blog - Games from across the multiverse: Goemon Boiling over! John: On Topic Retro; Zelda 2 FilmLogic: Summies Awards 2023 RetroGroove: On break for summer, catch up on Season 2! The Price Is Retro If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess Sam’s list John’s list Seth’s List Trivia Card Show Topics Canceled Games we wish we could play (or at least see finished) Mario Motors 3ds Yutaka “Yoot” Saito (Odama, Seaman, SimTower, Aeroporter) revealed its canceled development at 2018’s Reboot Develop conference. Based on Yoot’s latest hobby of sculpting chunks of metal and him chatting about it with Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata Saito could not give a reason why the game was canceled. -Game was based around the concept of building engines by shaving and sculpting chunks of metal. -at one point intended to blow into DS microphone (because YS loves microphones) -Unclear if you would actually ever race using these engines -only two characters confirmed in concept art, Mario (duh) and an elderly scientist (no, not E. Gadd) Super Mario Spikers Wii -volleyball-wrestling hybrid sport game to be developed by Next Level games team responsible for Mario Strikers games -carried over experience from the also canceled WWE Titans: parts unknown (the same team worked on it and really didn’t want these ideas to go to waste -WWE parts unknwn itself is super interesting: crazy stylized take on pro wrestling, featuring fantastic environments and the ability to wrestle bears, crocodiles, sorcerers, etc. - Nintendo felt the violence in the game was too realistic for something featuring mario’s characters Other Picks: Mega Man Universe Mega Man ZX3/ZXC Scalebound Prey 2 Phantom Dust Reboot Jade Empire 2 NES Aliens (based on the film,Famicom disk system, Square developed, run n’ gun action platformer Sunman (Sunsoft attempted rebrand of Superman game, plays like their batman games, mostly complete) Gamecube: Casualties of Microsoft’s Acquisition of Rare DK64 sequel on gamecube Banjo 3 on gamecube (kinda retooled to nuts & bolts eventually) Diddy Kong Pilot (was eventually released as banjo pilot) Diddy Kong Racing Adventure (oddly enough started at another studio before moving to rare and then getting axed) Perfect dark zero Rare was also working with microsoft on a monster hunter-like game at some point. Concept art: Kirby Tilt n’ tumble 2 Untitled earthbound game (developed by Baten Kaitos team of Monolith Soft) possibly a remake? Raven Blade (RPG by Retro canceled so they could make Metroid Prime) Thunder Rally (another retro project, car combat game intended to compete with Twisted Metal) The Wii Vitality Sensor Project H.A.M.M.E.R : beat ‘em up set in future USA, as a robot with a giant hammer, used motion controls. Intended to integrate wii motionplus at some point. Troubled development ended with a team with low morale making accusations against the management Turrican 3D Starcraft Ghost Varuna’s Forces: (developed by accent media, published by atari), planned for Jaguar CD, 3DO, dreamcast, Saturn, PC) hybrid Third person shooter/strategy game with on-rail shooter segments. (couldn’t get a break on those platforms folding. Community Couch Presto Why is Walmart the worst store? What's the best store? Submit YOUR canceled games for Part 2! Tell us about All N, KNW, carpool! Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games
