Not one, but two unannounced NES games recently hit eBay. His one in particular should be of great interest to Nintendo Power Glove fans. country of donkey kong Developer Rare.
find and share By Frank Cifaldi of the Video Game History Foundation, the first game was Battlefield of Napoleonand, incredibly, come in the form of the game’s prototype cartridge, along with the original packaging design that would have been sent to Nintendo to print on the game box.
Look at it! There is no such thing as Photoshop. You have to go back to the days when you cut off a piece of paper and glued it to another piece of paper.
No specific version of this game (localized in English and published by Broberbund) has been released, but initially in Japan Napoleon Senkia very ambitious real-time strategy game for the NES that was as frustrating as it was actually playing, but also had some amazing static visuals (which you can see in this video Rnd Stranger):
The second game is where the real mystery lies. Marked “CES SAMPLE” (before E3 started, the Consumer Electronics Show was also a big annual event for gaming), this unassuming cartridge comes from Rare and was developed specifically for Nintendo Power. It’s for game demo. glove.
There aren’t many of them, only two games have been released with specific Power Glove support (one of which is super grab ball, also developed by Rare). This would have been a third. No one in the general public has ever seen or played this game, and no physical or digital dump has ever gone wild.
However, there are some hints as to what it was. Rare’s James Thomas called earlier today for information on the demo. Said Former programmer Paul Byford said, “It was a puzzle game where the cursor was a disembodied hand and you made various gestures to complete a task: punch a rock, turn a key, etc.”
That’s why saving games is so important. So the Video Game History Foundation is trying to secure the necessary funds to get hold of the cartridge. But as Cifaldi said on his Twitter earlier today, this is exactly the kind of thing organizations typically buy, but at the moment “our resources are scarce and we can’t get help. increase”.
If you would like to help, You can DM Cifaldi on Twitter, “If you’re in the US, we can discuss your tax exemption options.” He says he already has around $4,000 in pledges from people, but given the rarity of both games and the market craziness for this sort of thing in these broken times, I don’t think that’s more than enough. There is no guarantee that there will be.
