[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'246421\' date=\'Aug 26 2010, 11:50 AM\'][quote name=\'nate80s\' post=\'246415\' date=\'Aug 26 2010, 12:37 AM\']As many of you know, there were quite a few planned, unreleased game show games for the NES. If you still play your NES, you may know that games are still being made via reproduction. It would be really nice if these guys could make those prototypes a reality. Question is... out of all of those games, which one(s) would you have liked to see released in the NES "afterlife?"
I would have to say Super Password. Here's a couple screenshots and box art of the proposed game:
Screenshot #1Screenshot #2Box artPlus learn about a "Talking" version here[/quote]
Do you know if there's a ROM available?
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There is a cartridge around, and at one time IIRC, it was on ebay, but it was some time back. There are no ROM's of it out there, I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money on, as there's only been one cartridge that has been seen semi-publically, and it seems like nobody knows who the real owner of that cartridge is anymore.
My story around SP involves me, as a little kid, seeing it advertised in all the instruction booklets with all the other NES GS games at the time, and how I kept searching like a mad man for it and putting it on my XMAS and birthday lists if my parents would happen to find it (up until about 2000, my gifts would always include some set of retro VG's). Of course, we didn't find it, and only through some deep digging did I realize it was never released but a cartridge exists of it somewhere.
FTR, Pyamid was considered for a game but because GameTek considered Password and Pyramid so similar in their makeup, they decided to do only one (an argument of one game taking an audience away from the other was possibly their justification *groan*), and it was SP they "ultimately decided on." When I say Password, too, I do also believe that was because they were thinking of making an original Password game, not an SP or P+, but I can't say that with total certainty. All this was circa 1986, but come circa late 87/88, when they ended up moving forward and going with SP, originally, it wasn't supposed to talk (like some of the previews advertised it would later). However, in late 88/89, that was one of the "upgrades" they made to the game late in its development life, and then, the show was cancelled, which I ultimately think was its nail in the coffin for getting released.
TPIR was considered, but was said to be too complicated to respectfully emulate on the NES (which I'd agree with, the PC and C64 version back then... left a lot to be desired), and Card Sharks was also considered for an NES game. My synapses are also telling me SoTC, High Rollers, and (of all things), Blockbusters were being considered at a point, but I might be confusing that with something else.
I personally would've loved to see a "Scrabble" game, but with 4 Wheel's released on the NES, it's no surprise to me one was never done. MG 90 would've been fun too I believe, but the transition from NES to SNES, at that time, probably stymied that one. I can think of multiple reasons TJW and TTD were never heard about being considered, but I think they would've been great additions also...
