The Lost Nintendo Games: FF VII, MGS & More

Atlantis. The Holy Grail. That episode of Star Trek where Captain Picard dresses in drag and does the macarena. They are things lost forever to the cruel winds of time, and yet they continue to capture the imaginations of successive generations. Gaming has its own graveyard of historical curios: half-born ideas and ill-fated projects that fell to the red pen of a corporate accountant. They’re called vaporware, and it looks like the Wii is on the cusp of its first two vaporware titles: the elusive Project H.A.M.M.E.R. and the mysterious Sadness.

But as GamesRadar patiently wait to hear the final fate of those two titles, they decided to cast a tearful eye over past Nintendo games that were coldly struck down before they ever had the chance to fill a gamer’s day with sunshine, to place a smile on the face of a child. These, friends, are the games that never were.