It was released on the PlayStation in 1997 in Japan and in 1998 in North America. It is the first game in the Mega Man Legends sub-series of Mega Man games from Capcom, and the first major 3D polygonal Mega Man title released in the franchise. If all these ever made it to the console, its fate could have been very different.Mega Man Legends, known in Japan as Rockman DASH Hagane no Bōkenshin, is an action-adventure game released by Capcom. In memory of what could have been, we have assembled this list of what we feel are the 25 most hyped N64 games to ever be canceled. While some of them ended up seeing the light of day in other circumstances, many were simply scrapped, which is a real heartbreaker when you’ve been excitedly reading about them for years. Not every game featured in the section was released, but the screenshots and scarce descriptions were enough to send fans in a frenzy.īecause of all of these factors, we know a lot about projected Nintendo 64 games that ended up being canceled. My favorite section was Pak Watch, which is where the writers would drum up excitement for the upcoming projects by Nintendo and the other companies which developed for their consoles. I started reading it before I could even understand English. It led to the cancellation of many games at different levels of completion, some of which had already been announced with great fanfare in gaming magazines.įor most of the magazine’s lifespan, I was a subscriber of Nintendo Power. However, as years passed, many third-party developers deserted the N64 and Nintendo had to work overtime to create new games and keep their console alive. The console basically wrote the book on 3D platformers and had games which are still to this day considered some of the best of all time. The Nintendo 64 era was a short one, and it saw the end of Nintendo’s dominance in the video games industry for a while, but it was glorious.

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