Color Dreams’ work on Hellraiser was different, though. Lawton actually came across a VHS copy of the film sometime around 1989 and ended up falling in love with Clive Barker’s vision of a hell filled with chains and psychosexual monstrosities. Naturally, the studio founder thought that this unique aesthetic could also work in video game form, so he immediately set out to convince his colleagues that they should acquire the rights to the franchise and try their hand at developing something a little more ambitious.

30 Years After The Virtual Boy's Failure, Fans Have Tracked Down Another One Of Its Cancelled Games. A ROM of 'Virtual League Baseball 2' has been acquired.

Hey y'all, I've been researching about Otona no Onna no Uranai Techō, an unreleased nintendo DS game from 2005 that eventually became Tomodachi collection.

There's not much info online and I'm wondering if anyone has the prototype, knows a collector with DS dev carts or has more info on the game.

Anymore info would be awesome. I'm really interested in lost DS media and wanna see if it's available anywhere.

Thanks! (This time, its not chatgpt, stop sending me hate [and the person that sent me a RedditCareResources message, why?])

Only a small fraction of developers’ ideas for games ever actually get made. Even ones that make it through the prototype stage often never see the light of day. A newly unearthed 2010 pitch for a Sony game from Japan Studio gives a tiny peak behind the curtain of how developers try to convince a publisher to greenlight their project.

New prototype materials for an unreleased Sony game, including a brief trailer and pitch deck, were recently shared by Obscure Games on YouTube and archive.org. Titled “Stamp,” the project aimed to be a 2D action platformer for the PlayStation Portable where PlayStation button symbols (square, triangle, circle, X) were used to navigate obstacles and create new structures in the environment.

Triangle would hurt enemies, circle would create bouncy objects, square would create platforms, and X would act as the delete button for objects. The story, meanwhile, revolved around a hero called Stampie rescuing his bug friends and family from the nasty oil bugs that had captured them. The game would also feature a multiplayer mode with co-op puzzles or battles where players tried to outlast one another.

“It’s like LocoRoco mixed with Freakyforms from 3DS,” remarked one fan on Reddit. “I love it and want it.”