Posted on December 30th, 2003 by Frank Cifaldi 
A reader by the name of Rob Budrick has beaten all of you lazy sods for our coveted Most Awesome Reader Award by mailing me a CD-R containing scans he made of an original Square Soft sales pamphlet for the NES version of Final Fantasy II: Dark Shadow Over Palakia, which you may recognize as the game written about in the article to your immediate right.
The CD-R also contains, among other things, some Frank Zappa MP3s. Which is never a bad thing.
Check out the scans here, here, and here.
Posted on December 10th, 2003 by Kenny Sutherland 
Have you ever wondered why certain games from Japan aren’t translated and brought to the rest of the world for sale? Or how only some parts of popular game series are translated while the rest of the series remains a mystery to the general gaming public?
More specifically, have you ever wondered why Squaresoft didn’t bring more games from the Final Fantasy series to the rest of the world? Read on, and find the answer to your questions in this month’s Spotlight feature: Final Fantasy II for the NES.
Oh, and Happy Holidays from the Lost Levels crew.
Posted on December 9th, 2003 by Kenny Sutherland 
The Staff page is now available for your viewing pleasure. Get to know the people who are involved in bringing this site and the articles contained here to you, the reader.
This page would also work better if the rest of the staff would give me their information, but you can’t always get what you want. In the meantime, take a look and get familiar.. we’re going to be bringing more stuff your way really soon.
Posted on December 1st, 2003 by Ian Adams 
In other exciting news about unreleased games (though this one is actually unreleased), the Castlevania Dungeon has posted a copy of the intro movie for the long canned Dreamcast Castlevania Resurrection.
The specific file can be found here, but the whole site is worth checking out.
Also, please be aware that Castlevania Resurrection has no connection to former Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford’s album Resurrection.
Posted on December 1st, 2003 by Frank Cifaldi 
OlderGames, in conjunction with Good Deal Games, have just released two “amazing new games for the Sega CD!”
First up is Battle Frenzy, a first-person 3D shooter designed by Warrior Kings and Microdot programmer Jim Blackler. This game was previously released by Domark in several parts of Europe, as well as in cartridge format for the Mega Drive.
The second “new game” is Marko, aka Marko’s Magic Football. This game was also previously published by Domark for the Mega CD in Europe, as well as in cartridge format for both the Sega Genesis and Game Gear.
Information is vague on both of the co-publishers’ sites, but we’re assuming by “new” they mean that these are previously-unreleased NTSC versions of the formerly PAL-exclusive games.
Posted on November 21st, 2003 by Frank Cifaldi 
Digital Press is holding a private auction for Power Grabber, a one-of-a-kind prototype of an unreleased game for the ColecoVision.
Power Grabber was developed by Sydney Development, a long-defunct development house perhaps best known for developing BC’s Quest for Tires for Sierra. The game was made in response to the Canadian Atomic Energy Commission’s need to entertain the kiddies while the adults were given tours of their facilities.
It was long-rumored that Power Grabber was distributed to the facilities, but this prototype board is the only copy of the game known to have turned up thus far.
The game consists of two EPROMs on a bare circuit board. The starting bid is $940, a sum I’d be hypocritical to challenge, and is being auctioned privately on this thread of the Digital Press Forums.
Posted on November 15th, 2003 by Kenny Sutherland 
So, how would you enjoy a nice piece on something Squaresoft? Perhaps you’d like some information on a game that was never released anywhere in the world? Better yet, how about two unreleased titles?
Mr. Chris Collette has got you covered, bringing you this feature on two “lost” Squaresoft games. And in case you’re confused, this Final Fantasy IV wasn’t for the Super Famicom, and this Seiken Densetsu wasn’t for the Game Boy.