Which announced but unreleased Turbo game are you most disappointed about?

[DragonmasterDan]

I wouldn't necessarily give up 100% on CF3, Victor never has confirmed nor denied how much work was done on the game.  I've never been able to get a straight answer out of him.  Unfortunately, it's a Telenet product, so it might fall under Sunsoft, which, at first was looking like it was going to be doing wonderful things with it's properties.....but they seemed to have disapeared, & I have no idea what Victor is up to lately, other then some PS1 rereleases on PSN. 

I recall Vic answering this question on the old Working Designs message board way back when. I think a first draft of a script was done, but never added to the actual game.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Bummer, I hope more was done, just because that would rock so much if we eventually got a completed version of that game!

[offsidewing]

Doesn't really count, but:   Mortal Kombat.

Ditto

[spenoza]

Does anyone know if Mortal Kombat was just offered up in a preliminary fashion, or was any of the coding actually complete?

[Black Tiger]

Does anyone know if Mortal Kombat was just offered up in a preliminary fashion, or was any of the coding actually complete?

Only the license was offered as an exclusive. Midway didn't handle any of the console ports. Even if Nec/TTi had gone for the deal, they probably would've had the team behind Talespin or something do the port and it would have done more damage than good.

[Arkhan]

You can't really make Mortal Kombat any shittier , to be honest.

[ProfessorProfessorson]

You can't really make Mortal Kombat any shittier , to be honest.

Mortal Kombat was fine for its time, and yeah, it was made shity, via Gameboy and Gamegear. Most all of the Mk ports suffer from some issue or another other then the Dos Cd release from the MK1/MK2 Collection for Dos. That one is about the only near perfect port from that time period of the game. Link to video of it:

[Arkhan]

I was never into the herky jerky quality of it, or the way the moves were done.  I did really like Raiden, and only use him ever.

I blame the janky motion capture stuff.  It just looks funny.  I much preferred Street Fighter 2 and the games that play like it. 

and, I hate that Street Fighter: The Movie fighting game.  It's like Mortal Kombat for me.

I remember renting MK2 when I was younger and got a kick out of it for maybe 30 minutes, and then went "meh" and played Battletoads!

[offsidewing]

Interesting tid bit, as I package off stuff I'm selling, I flipped through the pages of Turbo Force Vol 1 Issue 4 and noticed there is a screen shot of Dangerous Journeys in the 'Coming Attractions' section for the Winter CES 1993.

[machomadness]

Playing the CD-R of the Fantasy Star Soldier prototype, it's so addicting and fun, it's a damn shame it was never released....

[nat]

How does it differ from Star Parodia? I was under the impression they were identical except for the title screen.

[roflmao]

How does it differ from Star Parodia? I was under the impression they were identical except for the title screen.

That what I thought as well.  Star Parodier is an excellent game, and can be found relatively cheap on ebay (at least it could be when I picked it up a handful of months ago).

[henrycsc]

I just got the 1993 Club Duo Volume 1 catalog from Offsidewing - thanks man!

It has quite a few unreleased titles in it (as vestcoast mentioned).  The catalog was bold enough to actually list part numbers and dates for these games, and several have screen shots.

Here is a complete list of unreleased US titles

Battle Load Runner Hu TGX020094 October
Macross 2036 SLG  SCD TGXCD1049 August
Wizardry 1 & 2 SCD TGXCD1050 September
Macross 2036 SCD (No part number here) July
King of Monsters 2 SCD WTG990502 September  (Screenshot shows King of the Monsters 2)
World Heroes SCD WTG990503  October

I have scanned the catalog and sent copies to Esteban so he can post good quality scans on the Turbo Play Magazine Archives.

I know he's working on a bunch of stuff right now, but hopefully you'll see the update soon.
http://archives.tg-16.com/index.htm

Here's King of Monsters 2
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9161/kingofthemonsters2.jpg

[nat]

It says those KoM 2 shots were taken from the arcade, makes me skeptical about how far along the Duo version actually was. It probably never really even got off the ground.

[henrycsc]

It does say that for "the above photos" but not for the title screen.  It would be cool if it was close.