How many games have you got excited about that never came to fruition? I still think about the fact that I never got my copy of 40 Winks for the N64, and the threads of Cabbage that I read about in Nintendo Official Magazine still haunt me to this day.
One Xbox fanatic obviously shares my passion for thinking about the games that 'could have been', after spending more than a year making a complete list of all of the games that should have released for the original Xbox back in the day, making a grand total of 630 games. Reddit user DJKaito has scoured the internet to find every crumb of news or mention of a game that never made it to the shop shelves.
Writing on the Xbox Fandom Wiki page, DJKaito says that 'Some games were released on other platforms, like PlayStation 2, GameCube or Wii, jumped ship to the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 or went through development hell (Duke Nukem Forever or the recently released Captain Blood), and some games were just discovered because they popped up during my research of another game by the same developer or publisher (Paparazzi by Widescreen Games, a lot of games by Data Design Interactive or Scumbag Racing by Smart Bomb).'
But what games could we have had that we've missed out on? I mean, you're going to want to know if there's anything in there that would have been amazing, right?
How about a 3D Chrono Trigger remake, or Diddy Kong Racing Adventure? What about a remake of Banjo-Kazooie where the bird and bear were aware they were in a remake and started breaking the fourth wall, or a console version of Black and White? Honestly, the more I read this list, the more I'm annoyed that none of these games came to fruition!
DJKaito has put some serious effort into this list, and I for one think they should be applauded for their hard work, especially considering they have referenced every outlet that they've used to find out information about these games! Go and check out all of the titles and think about what could have been, I'm going to sit here and be depressed that I never got to play that Banjo-Kazooie remake!
