Lost Nintendo RTS for GBA, Dark Space Combat Sims & N64 FPS (Patreon)

Keeping up with our obscure queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, this week we added 3 cancelled games in the Unseen64 archive:   

Hanasaki Gassen [GBA]a cancelled real-time strategy game for GBA that was in development by Blue Planet Software (AKA Bulletproof Software), the same company that created the original Tetris for Game Boy. The project was officially announced as one of the first games in development for the GameBoy Advance and it was being funded and published by Nintendo themselves: https://www.unseen64.net/2019/04/11/hanasaki-gassen-gba-cancelled/

Dark Matter [PC] a cancelled space combat simulator that was in development for PC by a forgotten team known as “Nanotainment” around the late ‘90s. It seems the game was shown in playable form at E3 1999 & 2000, but only a few websites wrote about it at the time: https://www.unseen64.net/2019/04/11/dark-matter-nanotainment-cancelled/

Die Hard 64 [N64]Becoming a legendary lost game after unconfirmed rumors of screenshots appearing in gaming magazines, Die Hard 64 was one of three Nintendo 64 projects in development by Bits Studios, along with RiQa and Thieves World. Unfortunately, none of them ever saw the light of day on the 64-bit console. Founded in the early ‘90s, Bits Studios released a series of Game Boy and Super Nintendo games, developing a good relationship with Nintendo along the way that lead to a couple of collaboration projects (R-Type DX and Warlocked, published by Nintendo on the Game Boy Color). This relationship with Nintendo blossomed a trilogy of exclusive games conceived for the Nintendo 64: https://www.unseen64.net/2019/04/10/die-hard-n64-cancelled/