Over 100 Unseen Video Game Prototypes Released For New Years

[Peter Paltridge]

God bless the work of Hidden Palace, the website that tracks down prototypes for both released and unreleased video games of the past. Who knows where they get it all, but Hidden Palace’s connections are deep enough that they’ve brought us in-progress versions of EVERY Genesis Sonic game, including the hog’s ’91 debut. The bundle they just dumped for New Years Day 2022 isn’t on THAT seismic level, but there are still a lot of rare finds here, some for games that no one knew existed before.

MER WARS: A Super NES game that makes heavy use of Mode 7 to create a pseudo-3D underwater battle zone. You play as some kind of stingray-shaped battle sub (or maybe an actual stingray) and you shoot at monsters while a creepy yet catchy atmospheric melody plays in the background...

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