The elephant graveyard for gaming ideas: Unseen64
Ever seen an elephant graveyard? Well, it’s filled with dead elephants. Imagine giant beasties that used to roam the lands, now gone and forgotten, their bones setting the tone of the landscape. At the same time, they’re also a reminder that their death brought about the life of other things.
None of us have ever actually been to an elephant graveyard (not enough dead elephants around the block!), but we’ve seen something that kinda reminds us of it. Destructoid put up a mention of this elephant graveyard of sorts to old, dead, or remade Sega, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft games called Unseen64, and it’s kind of amazing how different a finished product can be from its prototype form.
We’ve decided to take some of the more interesting games for people to go and gawk at, so you’ll be seeing shots from “elephant graveyard” versions of Onimusha and Metal Gear Solid, House of the Dead 3, and the original Halo (which was supposed to be an RTS). It’s an interesting reminder for us gamers: the things we see before the game comes out might never truly represent the actual gaming goodness we get to experience. Still, we should thank these lost ideas for helping to bring out the games we’ve grown to love.
Ever seen an elephant graveyard? Well, it’s filled with dead elephants. Imagine giant beasties that used to roam the lands, now gone and forgotten, their bones setting the tone of the landscape. At the same time, they’re also a reminder that their death brought about the life of other things.
None of us have ever actually been to an elephant graveyard (not enough dead elephants around the block!), but we’ve seen something that kinda reminds us of it. Destructoid put up a mention of this elephant graveyard of sorts to old, dead, or remade Sega, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft games called Unseen64, and it’s kind of amazing how different a finished product can be from its prototype form.
We’ve decided to take some of the more interesting games for people to go and gawk at, so you’ll be seeing shots from “elephant graveyard” versions of Onimusha and Metal Gear Solid, House of the Dead 3, and the original Halo (which was supposed to be an RTS). It’s an interesting reminder for us gamers: the things we see before the game comes out might never truly represent the actual gaming goodness we get to experience. Still, we should thank these lost ideas for helping to bring out the games we’ve grown to love.
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