vbt
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Christmas is not there yet, but SMS Power already has an unusual gift for you all!
Not everyday we stumble on a genuine unreleased game prototype (remember Dinobasher, Pat Riley Basketball, Yogi-Bear, or the excellent Pac-In-Time, etc.), so we are always pleased to be able to uncover another one and release it to the community. Games are meant to be played, so wherever they are, developments teams who put hard work into something may be glad that their game finally got somewhere into the hands of gamers.
Spirou for the Game Gear, developped in 1996 as a late title for the system, was pretty much complete and never made it to the market. In the very same vein as Tintin au Tibet, developed by Bit Managers, published by Infogrames, and probably sharing the same game engine, Spirou is a platformer game based on a popular Belgian comic serie. The exact state of this prototype is unknown, but it is very playable and seems pretty much complete (confirmation, someone to play the game to finish?) and we don't know for what reason its commercial release was cancelled. The game is a pretty straight forward 2D platformer, feature decent, not stunning graphics & animation, and interesting music. Gameplay wise, it has this unfortunate taste of late european plateformers with average enemy patterns and level design. It has the merit of running very smoothly which is not the case of all western games of this era. Go play!
Source : http://smspower.org/#news
Not everyday we stumble on a genuine unreleased game prototype (remember Dinobasher, Pat Riley Basketball, Yogi-Bear, or the excellent Pac-In-Time, etc.), so we are always pleased to be able to uncover another one and release it to the community. Games are meant to be played, so wherever they are, developments teams who put hard work into something may be glad that their game finally got somewhere into the hands of gamers.
Spirou for the Game Gear, developped in 1996 as a late title for the system, was pretty much complete and never made it to the market. In the very same vein as Tintin au Tibet, developed by Bit Managers, published by Infogrames, and probably sharing the same game engine, Spirou is a platformer game based on a popular Belgian comic serie. The exact state of this prototype is unknown, but it is very playable and seems pretty much complete (confirmation, someone to play the game to finish?) and we don't know for what reason its commercial release was cancelled. The game is a pretty straight forward 2D platformer, feature decent, not stunning graphics & animation, and interesting music. Gameplay wise, it has this unfortunate taste of late european plateformers with average enemy patterns and level design. It has the merit of running very smoothly which is not the case of all western games of this era. Go play!
Source : http://smspower.org/#news
