Vapor Trails - On Famously Unreleased Videogames

Thanks to GamePro for its article discussing formerly in-development videogames which never actually got released. Some of the more unconventional include Data East's Tattoo Assassins ("2D video-captured fighters, whose tattoos come to life and whack on other players. Characters included a Nancy Kerrigan clone and a giant running hot dog"), Sega's Virtua Hamster ("...[involving] polygonal rodents with rocket packs and skateboards swooshing through a huge hamster habitrail, collecting popcorn kernels to spit at enemies"), and Runandgun!'s partially resurrected Duelin' Firemen! ("...[an FMV] game about singing, dancing firemen [starring Rudy Ray Moore].")

Tattoo Assassins...

[Lazyhound]

...is actually available as a MAME ROM now.

Re:Tattoo Assassins...

[Lazyhound]

Also, holy ****, the GamePro article is a word-for-word reprint of a feature they published in the magazine about four years ago, with one or two games added. How lame is that?

Re:Tattoo Assassins...

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll notice the title of the web artcile is Vapor Trails 2.0 . The article in the current GamePro mag is Vapor Trails 3.0 . So yes, this is reprint of one of their previous articles on the website. If you want the current one, go out and pick up the March ish.