20 Cancelled Game Boy Games

Hello all! The latest episode in my cancelled games series is here, and this time we're taking a look at twenty unreleased Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. Let me know what you think of them!
You can see the other episodes in the series here:
• 15 Cancelled Sega Drea...
Video sources:
Aeon-Metal Fighters - micdune
/ @micdune
Banjo Kazooie - RarewareArchives
/ @rarewarearchives
Titus Jr. - Mike Mika
/ @micaheljmika
Global Kumite - IGN
Trail Blazers - Japanese Game Exchange
• TrailBlazers aka Death...
HyouryuuShounen Keith TheRagnarokSeeker
/ @theragnarokseeker
Elite - Dosunceste
/ @dosunceste
Green Beret - magic388
/ @magic388
Resident Evil - Pikasprey Blue
/ @pikaspreyblue
Katakis 3D - Steven Seventyeight
/ @stevenseventyeight3287
Infinity - Jeffrey Pfau
/ @_endrift
Stip - neopokekun
/ @neopokekun
Wicked Surfing - Ludophiles
/ @ludophiles
Diablo - Retro_Forward
/ @retroforwardca
The Mask - Unseen64
Tyrian 2000 - aconnor96
/ aconnor96
Tyrannosaurus Tex - IGN
Roadsters 98 - Habib Jackson
/ @habibjackson
Carmageddon TDR 2000 - StalwartUK
/ @stalwartuk
Gekido - Stranno
/ 9esferas1
Download the Infinity ROM at Affinix's website:
affinix.com/downloads.html
Buy Tyrannosaurus Tex at Piko Interactive:
www.pikointeractive.com/store...
Research from:
Unseen64
Wikipedia
Assemblergames
IGN
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[@Asobitech]

Awesome stuff, as an ex GameBoy Color coder, it was great to see the many games that didn't make it to release. I myself worked on the GameBoy Color ports of Revolt and Equestriad 2001 which both got cancelled. Interestingly our port of Revolt, got reskinned, completed and released by Rocket Games / Datel as ATV Racing, an unlicensed cart.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Quang! Ooh, wasn't aware of a GBC port of Revolt. Interesting.

[@Asobitech]

I'm sure I found the design documents for it a while back, I should have scanned them in.

[@Bond007er]

Asobi tech I have the n64 game its a shame to hear a port was canned

[@Tko101488]

I grew up in the GBC age (born 92, so I was ~6 when I and everyone got a GBC, for reference) and have been enamored with the tech and era since. I always wanted to know how it worked, and how to make my own games, and fortunately I did become a programmer around 2004 and eventually get my wish. I do wish there were more places to read on the dev experiences from this era, its always great to stumble upon someone from this time on youtube

[@Larry]

Loved this "unreleased" series you do dude, absolutely fascinating!!!

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Larry! Glad you find them interesting.

[@theangryaustralian7624]

Larry! ur my favourite gaming personality...sorry retrotip it's Larry....La-rry!

[@Gamerdevils]

I actually own an unreleased cartridge of the Resident Evil gameboy game. Plays on the gameboy too.

[@onaretrotip]

Nice! Any good?

[@--Animal--]

Great video man, it's so nice to see something on youtube thats new and not snowballed from youtuber to youtuber, keep up the great work.

[@onaretrotip]

Ah, thank you so much. I really appreciate that.

[@ShadowJinjoYu]

Titus you know the same people that made super man 64

[@WilliamStoneContentZone]

depressed Snowman and blues Bros 2000

[@onaretrotip]

Hahahaha, that's hilarious that there's a ROM that's more complete than the released version. SHocking that Superman 64 got released when so many good-looking titles didn't.

[@Bizarrix]

At least they made one decent game,Prehistorik Man...

[@pferreira1983]

@@Bizarrix They made more than one good game. They made a fair few including Titus the Fox!

[@Gojiro7]

3:57 hey check it out, the Infragable Krunk made it into a video game XD

[@onaretrotip]

😂

[@custardo]

Clearly publishers weren't interested in paying for advanced or unique games for Game Boy. Unlike for other systems, where quite a number of games were kept from release for good reasons, here is a selection I would have loved to see. Stip in particular looks amazing for a GBC title.

[@onaretrotip]

Agree, Erwin. Publishers were sadly (most of the time) not willing to take risks. There are definitely some potentially great games here!

[@evanb4466]

Hard to think how many cancelled games there are that we will never know about

[@onaretrotip]

I know, right. There must be countless games out there that we'll never hear about.

[@onaretrotip]

@Savage Gaming Yeah, Global Kumite looks gorgeous. What a shame. Ah, thanks. Really appreciate it.

[@pferreira1983]

Never knew they had a Titus the Fox spin-off planned. That would have been interesting.

[@onaretrotip]

Indeed!

[@pirataga]

Great video as always, I found your videos a week ago and I've watched lots of them already!

[@onaretrotip]

Ah, that's awesome, thank you so much. Welcome!

[@TravestyJunction]

Once again, great video. Love hearin' about these type of games in video form instead of havin' to search for them myself.

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you! That's what I figured; people can find all this info online themselves, but far easier to watch a twenty minute video than to spend ten hours trawling the internet.

[@shaunvhsopenings8291]

If I had my own game publisher company I would release hatakis 3d

[@onaretrotip]

It would be awesome to be in that position and choose which unreleased games you wanted to publish.

[@larkprof]

Good vid! I remember seeing Tyrannosaurus Tex when I was a kid; back in an old EMG mag that was pimping the dreamcast at the time. I had forgotten about it until now.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks! Ah, I never saw it back in the day. First-person shooters on handhelds just aren't my cup of tea.

[@nerdoutwordout6294]

I had that Donkey Kong game n watch! Memories. Another great vid. The intro bit sums up exactly how it was.

[@onaretrotip]

I loved that Game & Watch. I did re-buy it a few years back, but wish I'd kept my original. No idea what happened to it. Glad you think I summed it up well; it really was such a big deal to have interchangeable carts.

[@caprilaser3]

Great vid Pete! Always interesting to hear of games that we never saw back in the day. Resi on GameBoy Colour would have been something I would have been interested in had it been released at the time. Nice one 👍🏼

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Dave! Yeah, Resi looks pretty impressive for the hardware. Love the Game Boy!

[@SECONDQUEST]

Pretty great video, I'm excited to check out the rest of your channel.

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you very much! I hope you like it.

[@EhrisaiaOShannon]

I think I find myself looking forward to your stuff more than anyone else's. Love it. 💜

[@onaretrotip]

That's such a nice compliment, thank you so much. It means a lot!

[@EhrisaiaOShannon]

onaretrotip Of course, Retro. I love your stuff. you work very hard, you deserve praise. 💜

[@oddpodshow]

Awesome, crazy I missed this one, love the Gameboy. Great vid :)

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Dan!

[@HyperTriggerEx]

Elite on a GB cart, how amazing would that have been. A another great video Pete, thanks for sharing with us all :)

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, such a shame that so many console ports of Elite were scrapped. Thanks a lot, Dylan!

[@RetroGamePlayers]

Wow Gekido and Carmageddon both look like my type of game! It bums me out to see these games aren't released

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, it can be very depressing seeing all these cancelled games. Gekido looks brilliant. Thanks, Marcus!

[@GRUSSNewton]

I was a big fan of the color and preordered it from special reserve, some really good games on it! Great video Pete :-)

[@onaretrotip]

Ah, loved Special Reserve. Thanks, Russ!

[@Colonel-Llama]

Infinity is the sequel to a game called "Joltima". Joltima was developped by the founder of Affinix and was originally released in 1998 for the TI-83. Inifinty was called "Joltima 2" early in developpement.

[@onaretrotip]

Oh nice, thanks for the info!

[@Colonel-Llama]

onaretrotip You're welcome! I enjoyed Joltima a lot while in math class. I happened to own a TI-83+ calculator.

[@samuelvictor9958]

Great video as always :) Is the Stip footage actual GBC footage? Very impressive graphics if so! Elite on the DMG would have been an amazing achievment, the 3D demo shown here looks cool!

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Samuel! I believe it was footage for a trailer, so I'm not sure what they were running it on. Agree though, the graphics look amazing!

[@WilliamStoneContentZone]

always great to have a new video from you

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you very much, William! Much appreciated.

[@NIGH11]

Greetings from Trinidad...again! Great video as always man!

[@onaretrotip]

Hey, Kevin! Thanks mate.

[@shane1489]

That Resident Evil game looks amazing on such a primitive device!

[@onaretrotip]

Doesn't it! Very impressive.

[@ButtonBashers]

The resident evil game looked awesome!!! Great video again mate!

[@onaretrotip]

Agree. It looks pretty impressive for a GBC game. Thank you!

[@HappyFrogGamesLLC]

Small correction I'd like to note on Tyrian 2000: The GBC version wasn't leaked, World Tree Games, a.k.a. the developers of the game, actually released it for free themselves from my understanding. Same dealio with the GBA version too.

[@onaretrotip]

Ah, thanks for the info! I was not aware of that.

[@quinncollects6764]

Some promising titles there mate! Interesting how Res Evil nearly made it! Also the 2x micro machine looking racers looked decent!

[@onaretrotip]

Definitely some good-looking games here, yeah. Resi looks incredible considering the hardware! Thanks, Craig.

[@AasuperLuigiFan23Subscribe]

There was a South Park game being developed for the gameboy color. But it never got a released. And I heard that WWF No mercy was also supposed to be on the GameBoy Color also. It also ended getting cancelled

[@onaretrotip]

Yes, the South park game surfaced after this video was made. There are loads more not mentioned here too.

[@AasuperLuigiFan23Subscribe]

Ooh okay

[@BitsNPolygons]

There was a cancelled South Park game on GBC. There exists only one screenshot publicly. Matt and Trey own the beta cartridge.

[@onaretrotip]

Yes indeed! Hopefully we'll get to see that one day.

[@mtshark7]

Awesome video Pete! :-)

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Mark!

[@Matropolis]

One handheld I never owned. My only experience of using a Game Boy was borrowing a mate’s when I was flying to Orlando once. Spent a good few hours with Pokemon on that flight. Great video Pedro!

[@onaretrotip]

Whaaat? That's a shame, as it's probably my all-time favourite handheld. So good. Thanks, Mat!

[@Matropolis]

onaretrotip yes even the mighty Matropolis couldn't have it all 😐

[@onaretrotip]

PMSL

[@petewinslowofficial]

There was a port of Dino Crisis planned for the GBC, also Jet Force Gemini

[@onaretrotip]

👍

[@radishdalek]

I had that red LCD car game as a kid

[@onaretrotip]

Niiice! It was so primitive, but I loved it.

[@kamilgalecki6125]

What's your Favourite Game Boy Game?

[@onaretrotip]

I usually struggle with the whole concept of favourites, but that's an easy one - Zelda: Link's Awakening!

[@Grendell100]

Infinity is getting finished and released for GBC hopefully this or next year by Incube8 Games, consisting of some original Affinix members!

[@onaretrotip]

Nice!

[@roberthanthonymartinezrive7383]

Aeon-Metal Fighters, Titus Jr., Trail Blazers, Elite, Green Beret, Katakis 3D, Infinity, Stip, Wicked Surfing, The Mask: Zero to Hero & Carmageddon: Total Destruction Racing should be picked up by either JoshProd or Piko Interactive so they can be finished and released either physically or online for everybody!

[@devastator200]

Boom! please release some of these!! Great video here boss 👍🏼 Such awesome editing! Love it 💥 Sillllllllz to pay the billlllz rudeboi!!

[@onaretrotip]

Agree. Let's hope at least a few of them are released in the future!

[@onaretrotip]

@BASSINVADER Thanks, Luke! Glad you liked it mate.

[@lukewillis9609]

I remember my brother having green beret for the Atari 800 xl...

[@onaretrotip]

Nice. I think I first played it on the BBC Micro.

[@jaketheman091]

I'm pretty sure the Mask: Zero to Hero was a Gameboy Color port of the Super Nintendo game. I was really looking forward to playing it, but the SNES version suffices for now. At least I have the Mask's Escape MGA Handheld to supplement it lol

[@onaretrotip]

Haha I'd never actually seen that handheld before until I just looked it up.

[@jaketheman091]

onaretrotip Yup, eBay has a lot of good stuff lol

[@onaretrotip]

@@jaketheman091 😂

[@axeoseilez3207]

A bit obscure but id love to see a unreleased neo geo pocket games video someday or at least some form of unreleased snk titles video.

[@onaretrotip]

I researched NGPC but there's not enough to warrant a video sadly. Neo Geo is also tricky, but I should get some sort of SNK video done at some point if I include all SNK platforms.

[@littlemissnintendofan6558]

Just wondered why no mention of "Edd the Duck"? It was to be the 5th variant of Agro Soar, Baby T-Rex, Bamse and We're Back a Dinosaurs Story. Also the very very unknown "Syd The Elephant" was another that could also be included!

[@onaretrotip]

There are masses of cancelled Game Boy and GBC games! I just narrowed it down and chose these twenty.

[@ongakuwotabeta]

A lot of unreleased games released almost exactly a year ago via the Nintendo leaks. Maybe a part 2 if it hasn’t been made yet?

[@onaretrotip]

Yes, maybe this will get a follow-up video, as there have been so many that have come to light since.

[@DowntheRabbitHole0]

Wow! Elite looked almost done but better than that Trail Blazers is right up my alley! Wish these had come out

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, Elite looked really good, but I believe it was more of a tech demo at the time. Shame they never made it.

[@chazzlucas6395]

How long can one game hold a persons attention ???? Just ask the company still collecting royalties for Tetris ..lol Great video onaretrotip

[@onaretrotip]

Indeed! Haha. Thank you :)

[@steved8193]

A Game Boy version of Elite would've been great.

[@onaretrotip]

Sorry for the late reply, must have missed this comment. Yes, it would have! And it would definitely have run fine on the hardware.

[@JWG.LLC_The_Artist]

I read that as "On are tro tip", lol

[@onaretrotip]

😂

[@skorpsaiyan2361]

I do have the prototype to Katakis 3D. It is an amazing game, really ahead of its time for the Game Boy.

[@onaretrotip]

Nice! It does look very advanced for the hardware.

[@Jamie-yp7qz]

Is there a way you can dump the game?

[@KEN-1991]

Banjo Kazooie: Grunty's Curse looks ten times better than Conker's Pocket Tales.

[@onaretrotip]

Funny that!

[@ThatLightNovelGuy]

Well there was also that cancelled Oracle game ;) but man Infinity looks like it might be a bit fun. Or maybe I just love that style

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, I think that's a popular style of game. At least you can play it in some form.

[@johneygd]

Tyrannsaurus might be an interesting game as well that 3D game flight game.

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, definitely a few potential winners here!

[@M3rtyville]

I read cancelled gameboys instead. I wouldn't be suprised because the game boy had so many redesigns

[@onaretrotip]

Hahaha true!

[@youdontneedtoseehisidentif4939]

A great video as always :) Do you remember the Game Boy launch promotion with Quavers? ;) You mention that _Aeon-Metal Fighters_ has fantastic music... and play the music from -Mario's- Wario's castle in the background ;) I'd completely forgotten about _Hyouryuu Shounen Keith_ and I wish there more information about it, as _Link's Awakening_ is amongst my favourite games on any platform - and it's one of the few games to have brought me to tears ;_; I always liked the art style of _Stip_, but I thought that (what little was shown of) its gameplay was... "lacking" is the most polite word :/

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Mark! No, I don't think I do remember the Quavers promotion. Hahaha sorry about the music, but generally I never include the music from the games as it's difficult to find, so I just get together a selection of tracks (from the console I'm covering) that I want to use. Totally agree on Link's Awakening. It's a game that means a lot to me, and is my favourite GB game and one of my all-time favourite games on any system. The ending has definitely brought a tear to my eye on more than one occasion, it's quite beautiful.

[@youdontneedtoseehisidentif4939]

Ah, the comment with regards to the music wasn't a complaint - I just found it funny :)

[@segadriven]

Was Roadsters 98 cancelled? I have it on a bootleg multicart!

[@onaretrotip]

It was indeed!

[@wolfeater3851]

just rolling a spiff

[@onaretrotip]

Enjoy!

[@lucariowolfomegax1175]

I love the game boy advance and game boy colors

[@onaretrotip]

Me too. Such good handhelds, and I doubt they'll ever be topped.

[@peterpumpkin6266]

Could use youtube comment ap I watch on tv Gameboy coler had short life span. It went from brick to a light device. Gameboy pocket was light version. Then gameboy coler it had the ability to play original with some coler Pokemon silver and zelda seasons It had poke pinball then advance released soon after people demanded improved handhelds

[@onaretrotip]

👍

[@gunmatheretrogamer747j]

What about luna chaser?X was going have a oversea release,but cancelled for unknown reason

[@onaretrotip]

That was released in Japan.

[@AndroidFerret]

Carmageddon was released someday... I had this version on my gbc in 2007

[@onaretrotip]

That's Carmageddon, not Carmageddon TDR 2000 which is a different release.

[@AndroidFerret]

@@onaretrotip oh ok...

[@RileyAndersen2015]

2:15 Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Curse was a concept designed for Game Boy Color (C) 1999 Nintendo and Raceware, Inc. All Rights Reserved

[@onaretrotip]

Huh?

[@RileyAndersen2015]

@@onaretrotip well Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Curse was a Cancelled Game Boy Color video game kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJ-zfpeJdr-ZhLs

[@onaretrotip]

@@RileyAndersen2015 I'm confused. You linked to 2:15 in my video, where I show Grunty's Curse on the Game Boy Color. Then you're telling me that "Grunty's Curse was a cancelled GBC video game". Um, yeah, it's literally in the video at the time you linked!

[@jakobholgersson4400]

11:27 Did they have the license for Nemi?

[@onaretrotip]

Jakob Holgersson Who’s Nemi?

[@jakobholgersson4400]

Google "Nemi comic" and you shall see. Basically a Swedish comic that's been around since the 90's.

[@onaretrotip]

Ah, I see!

ELIIIIIIIITE!!!!! Dammit, I need Game Boy Elite now! :'(

[@onaretrotip]

Haha. Pete breaking hearts yet again with this video.

[@RobbyRaccoon]

11:28 Yikes!

[@onaretrotip]

Terrifying! Imagine waking up next to that hahahaha.

[@AndyHugRetro]

What a shame about Elite and Resi. Love the GB, one of the few consoles I had as a kid that I've not since re-bought

[@onaretrotip]

Agreed. I re-bought the Game Boy pack I had as a kid years ago, along with all the games I had. I've been meaning to do a video on the topic actually. Nothing brings back the memories quite like the Game Boy boxes.

[@adam4349]

Give me Banjo kazooie. Global humite. green beret. the mask zero to hero. Gekido.

[@onaretrotip]

👍

[@annreadings4241]

👌

[@onaretrotip]

👊

[@ianwagj]

Hey, you missed out Edd the Duck! It was going to be another We're Back/Baby T-Rex clone aimed for the British market, but never got released. blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2010/01/james-pond-2-nes-and-edd-duck-game-boy.html

[@onaretrotip]

There are quite a few more not in this list.

[@bsdims]

FGB Drymouth Star Heritage

[@onaretrotip]

🤔

[@annreadings4241]

Do unreleased Nintendo Wii games

[@onaretrotip]

I will at some point soon!

[@Gojiro7]

I love these videos of yours man, but I gotta say, the guy who wanted 2 grand for the Resident Evil rom may have been in his right to sell it first, but his methods of getting it was extortion to demand money from the community or it'll never get dumped because thats not selling to anyone thats still keeping it for yourself and getting money from its looming fate, thats like holding up a rare painting you own and telling everyone your gonna burn it to ash if they dont fork over enough dough, well within their right to do so, but dickish all the same

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, I'd have to agree.

[@Gojiro7]

@@onaretrotip does that mean you've changed your stance on what you originally said in the video?

[@onaretrotip]

@@Gojiro7 What did I originally say?

[@Gojiro7]

@@onaretrotip you said "some called this extortion, but come on the guy was perfectly in his rights to sell them and these crowd funded prototypes are a great way to get these out there" both of those statements are very untrue since the man didn't own the copyright of that data which is what he was holding hostage in that situation, and for the other thing, money doesn't have to be exchanged for people to experience unreleased prototypes because its considered massively in poor taste to try and extort money out of a game singular existence and spit in the face of preservation for monetary gain.

[@onaretrotip]

@@Gojiro7 Ah yes, I remember. I didn't really understand the extent of how he went about it at the time. You obviously feel very strongly on the subject! It's really disappointing when I'm researching games for this series, only to find out that the one guy who has a prototype copy won't let the rest of the world see it. Happens all too often sadly.

[@Koutsie]

Infinity is the best.

[@onaretrotip]

Infinity definitely looks good, doesn't it!

[@Koutsie]

onaretrotip ive played the game and hacked it so i could go past the barrier, its freaking awesome as a gbc game!

[@esrtdtut]

Can you not find another word to describe small other than titular because your titular count is far from titular.

[@onaretrotip]

Hahaha. I said it once or twice in the past and then it became a running joke with some viewers.

[@esrtdtut]

@@onaretrotip so it's on purpose then?

[@onaretrotip]

@@esrtdtut Yes!

[@bacburrito4225]

Titular

[@bacburrito4225]

Ehrisaia O'Shannon nope, Titular, nothing to do with Tits.

[@onaretrotip]

Hahaha. Did I say titular in this one? Can't remember.

[@bacburrito4225]

onaretrotip i’ll watch later, i just saw an opportunity to be first to comment

[@bacburrito4225]

Ehrisaia O'Shannon I take it you haven’t played with any other than your own!!

[@iliketrainskid541]

You forget South Park gbc

[@onaretrotip]

Nope. Check the video date.