Unseen64 Survived 2017: Thank You for Your Help! Here are our 2018 plans (Patreon)

2018 is here and as every year we’d like to review what we did the last year and make some plans for the new one :)

As most of you known, we work on Unseen64 in our own free time, after a long day of our day-jobs, taking away this extra time from our sleep, friends and family  just to read Unseen64 related emails, reply to messages on social  networks, resolve technical issues on the site, search info on lost  games, save media, contact developers and write articles.

Even if you only see a few articles or videos published every month, to keep the site alive as it is, it takes dozens and dozens of hours of work every week.  99% of the articles are written by monokoma, who also manages tech issues, replies to emails and on social networks (mostly on Twitter). In 2017 we started to repay a few of these hours thanks to the help of all of our Patrons, to let him work a bit less on freelance jobs and to work a few more hours on Unseen64 instead.

We still did not reach our goal of $550 on Patreon,  so monokoma can’t really quit any more of his freelance activities to  invest more time into Unseen64. Still, these donations permits him to not lose faith in our project and to keep it alive – instead than to close the site down.

Patreon is essential for the survival of a niche project like Unseen64, a website 99% managed by a single italian guy in this age of Youtube and gaming videos in english.

We are really grateful for your kind words and your help: without our Patrons, Unseen64 would already be dead. You prompt us to keep up doing this, even during the hardest times.

What we did in 2017

We saved these forgotten lost games in our website:

Djinn, Diablo 2’s spiritual sequel by former Blizzard North devs
Project FUUB, THQ’s failed dice peripheral and games
Road Trip, a zombie-apocalypse adventure game by Hydravision Entertainment (Obscure)
Project Carbondale, SEGA’s ambitious survival horror meant to be their answer to the Resident Evil franchise
Project Nano, Epic Games’s ambitious action adventure post- Gears of War
(b)Last, an action game inspired by Lovecraft and the Matrix in development by Quantic Dream
The Skate or Die reboot by Criterion Games (Burnout)
Kyskrew, an obscure RPG for Dreamcast and PC
Heartland, David Jaffe’s political shooter for PSP
Elveon, a promising action adventure in the vein of Zelda and Dark Souls
Iron Angel, an ambitious sci-fi flight / combat simulator
A mysterious, untitled Nintendo 64 fighting game by Konami
Citizen Siege: Wage Wars a cancelled multimedia game / project by Oddworld Inhabitants
Project Overdrive, the Russian GTA3 in development before GTA3
Conker: Bad Fur Day 2
Game of Death, a survival horror in which you would kill real-life serial killers
Deadline, a game inspired by Metal Gear Solid and Half Life 2
The cancelled sequel to Swery65‘s weird adventure D4
The lost point & click adventure by Rare which was the origin of Donkey Kong’s Klremlings
and many more!
 

We also published these videos featuring previously unseen games:

What happened to Fighting Force 3?
Sleeping Giants, Warren Spector’s cancelled RPG
Jade Empire 2 and Revolver: Bioware’s lost RPGs
Deus Ex 3: Insurrection by Ion Storm
Obscure: Dark Aura, the cancelled survival horror for Nintendo DS
Pilotwings‘ Lost Open World Reboot (thanks to Liam!)
The Lost Disney Game Pitch: Project Goliath (thanks to Liam!)
and many more!
 

These are just a few example of the whole unseen history of video games we could lose if not researched and unveiled.

When everyone already know about such lost games as Zelda URA, Resident Evil 1.5, Bio Force Ape or Sonic X-Treme, there’s not much left to discover: only less popular / important lost games (that still deserve to be remembered) or previously unknown and intriguing projects that can only be covered by luck or months of time-consuming researches.

To continue our work, we entrust you and all of our Patrons, people who know why it’s important to keep a site like Unseen64 alive.

Unseen64 plans in 2018

In 2018, we’ll continue doing our best to remember lost games no one else cares to write about: https://www.unseen64.net/2018/01/03/thank-you-2017/