Posted on October 31st, 2005 by Kenny Sutherland
After much research, work, and procrastination, another article is ready for consumption. This one is brought to you by yours truly, Kenny Sutherland. And it only took two years to get around to finishing it, too.
This month’s feature is another “lost” Squaresoft title. This is a game that sunk an entire console before it was even launched, bringing a video game empire back to Earth and ascending another in its place. Well, sort of. But not really. Read on, and learn the truth about this month’s feature Elusions: Final Fantasy 64.
Well, kind of 64, anyway.
Posted on August 11th, 2005 by Frank Cifaldi
Danny “Sardius” Cowan, a bigshot from Hardcore Gamer Magazine, took time out of his busy schedule of making appearances at Hollywood premieres and working out with his personal trainer to do a l’il writeup for us on yet another unreleased Jaleco game for the NES.
Bashi Bazook: Morphoid Master is an official English translation of a Japanese game called Bio Senshi Dan, originally published by Jaleco in 1987. It’s kind of like Metroid, except not really. And it was never released, which is why we’re talking about it. That’s kind of what we do.
Posted on December 31st, 2004 by Kenny Sutherland
After several months of virtual inactivity towards the outside world, there is a new article here at Lost Levels for your reading enjoyment. Jonathan Wirth, the man who has previously brought you the expose on Nintendo’s Earthbound, now presents you with a glimpse into the world of unrleased Jajamaru games.
Behold, and rejoice, for now you shall bask in the goodness of Jaleco’s unreleased Jajamaru role playing game. Read on and enjoy Spotlight: Taro’s Quest.. a little late for the gift-oriented holidays, but just in time to ring in the new year.
Posted on December 4th, 2004 by Frank Cifaldi
Omar Cornut of SMS Power! has uploaded a ROM dump for a rolling CES demo of Super Basketball, an unreleased game for the Sega Master System. Actually, he did this almost two months ago, but we’ve been out of the loop lately. The demo cycles between two static screens, with original music, and is not playable in any way.
Cornut was also the man responsible for bringing another unreleased Master System basketball game, Pat Riley Basketball, to the internet, so go check that out too while you’re there.
Posted on September 28th, 2004 by Kenny Sutherland
The staff here at Lost Levels isn’t as lazy as you might believe. Well, okay, so we really are that lazy, but that doesn’t mean that we haven’t been doing anything during the past few months.
In August, Frank Cifaldi showed us a different approach to unreleased video games with Spotlight: Secret Ties. Actually, I’m not sure exactly what the article is talking about, but it does find some redeeming qualities such as mentioning other unreleased video games, a reference to Duke Togo, and even a small amount of 8-bit cleavage. It’s fun for the whole family.
Also, Lost Levels is proud to bring you the following Feature: EarthBound Timeline, presented by yours truly. This timeline was written as a point of reference to help clarify some of the facts from the Spotlight: EarthBound article, so hopefully it will be of some help to us all. Two months later.
Posted on September 4th, 2004 by Kenny Sutherland Okay folks, this issue of Lost Levels Online magazine is still undergoing some finishing touches and will have to be pushed back just a little longer. But don’t blame us, blame the service.. I told them we needed those chili cheese fries.
In the meantime, we’ve set up some Forums for discussion of the articles appearing on this site and in the print magazine, “Lost Treasures” that you may have heard about or seen somewhere over the years, and gaming in general. We’ve even got a forum for off topic discussions such as Haiku Battle, cheese fries, and Super Chili Cheese Fry Haiku Battle, amongst other things.
The second issue of Lost Levels Online will be debuting shortly, so remember to check back here often.
Posted on August 19th, 2004 by Frank Cifaldi
Atari Historian and hero of the people Curt Vendel, curator of The Atari History Museum, arranged and presented the Atari 7800 20th Anniversary Reunion at Vintage Computer Festival 2.0 on July 16, 2004. Vendel, along with eleven or so original Atari 7800 developers, presented all sorts of crazy crap at the featured Atari Museum display. Among these items were original schematics, prototype hardware, and, yes, unreleased prototype software for the Atari 7800.
Knowing Vendel, ROM dumps are forthecoming. For now check out a mirrored screenshot of the Atari 7800 version of Lucasarts’ Rescue on Fractalus, along with the opening screens of both the Temperature and Light Modules from AtariLab (whatever those are) here. As always, we’ll keep you posted when news hits.