Great to see this. I loved the film so would have been all over a Sega game based on it. Low grade FMV as well on a Sega CD version this is the stuff dreams are made of! Looks like they had made some progress with programming as the screen shots look good. Edit: just watched a video on YouTube taken of Genesis gameplay, I didn't know it got that far in development, there must be a proto somewhere surely?
Check the Nintendoage proto forums - there's a guy there with what appears to be the Saturn proto (excuse me if it was released?) Would be great to see the Saturn proto!
It is interesting to see just how many releases they had planned for that game. I wonder how far into development each of the versions were before they all got canned.
There was never a Saturn version of THAT Akira game as the Saturn wasn't even released or near release back when Akira was in production. It is possible that another team started an Akira game but I've never heard anything about it. I'd be willing to bet it's the Virtua Fighter Akira art disc
Hahaha most of the files needs a PSY-Q to be tested. Still have to check a lot of files to be able to tell you if it is really Akira related. It comes from the Climax studio.
Watched gameplay of it in 2 video clips at CES 1994...it was broken. It froze in the first clip, and in the extended second clip, you could tell the developers had gotten carried away with making some of the most beautifully animated sprites I;ve ever seen to impress the licensee, but totally forgot to make a playable game. I could only imagine a rep or employee heard the trash talking or just saw how unfinished it was. It sounded amazing though, OpenBOR community needs to get on this
You can kind of hear voice acting in that recording and there's way too many art assets for that game to be bare genesis, it's more like a Sega CD game. I'm willing to believe that the regular MD version would be the same sans cutscenes, redbook and that smooth kana animation on the title screen though.
It is a THQ game you dummy. I'm sorry but twhat was shown is way more likely to be a CD game for a whole lot of reasons.
There were a bunch, but they were strictly still picture. No animation whatsoever. In fact, there was minimal animation in the entire game, despite the emphasis on the box for how large the file size was.
The game was aslo planned to be ported to the Atari Jaguar by Hand Made Software (of Kasumi Ninja fame) but there's not much info about that port sadly...
I saw someone's CES report describing the game's scenes on the video as being for the SEGA CD plus a magazine with a screenshot of the hovercar tunnel thing section labeled "Sega CD". I wish I kept those links but everything points to the footage being from the Sega CD version. I'll see if I can dig them out of my browser later.
