If you hunt around, you can find information about cancelled or vaporware games for just about every console that’s ever been sold…and even some consoles that never made it. Far less frequently does one of these lost games actually show up. Viewpoint 2064 for the Nintendo 64 was one of those games…until today.
Viewpoint 2064, in development by Sammy, was to be a fast-paced autoscrolling shmup shooter. Its only public exhibition was at Space World, a Japanese video game press event, in 1999. That was all anybody heard of it until, without warning, a prototype for Viewpoint 2064 appeared on eBay in the middle of last month.
The opening bid price was $2,999 — a hefty sum for all except one. The auction was won with one bid, and its new owner has now created a YouTube video of Viewpoint 2064. This is the first time anyone outside of a Japanese trade show has seen this game. The graphics are incredibly dated, as is usually the case for games from this era, but it looks like a lot of fun.
As for the owner’s future plans, no one knows yet if a ROM dump of this abandonware title is going to happen. Maybe if everyone asks real nice, he’ll share.
[Source: RetroCollect]
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