List of cancelled Super NES games

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The list of cancelled Super NES and Super Famicom games has those which had been announced and then cancelled or postponed indefinitely by developers or publishers. The original market timeframe of the Super NES and Super Famicom was the early 1990s.

Cancelled Super NES and Super Famicom games
Title(s) Cancellation date Developer Publisher
Aa! Megami-sama late 1990s-mid 2000s[1] KSS
Action 52 1993[2] Active Enterprises Active Enterprises
Airborne Ranger (sequel/remake) MicroProse
Akira 1993[3] Black Pearl Software THQ
Albert Odyssey Gaiden 1994–1995 Sunsoft
Baby's Day Out 1994 Designer Software Hi Tech Expressions
Batman Software Creations
Batman: Revenge of the Joker 1992 / 1993[4] ICOM Simulations Sunsoft
Beastball 1993[5] Spectrum Holobyte Millennium Interactive
Blaster Master 2 1992[6][7] Sunsoft
Bobby's World 1994[5] Riedel Software Productions Hi Tech Entertainment
Boo! 1995[5] MicroProse MicroProse
Brimstone 1994[8] Teknocrest Taito
Christopher Columbus (aka Xpoferens Columbus) 1992 / 1993[9] Misawa Entertainment
Cluster Buster 1993[10] Rage Software
Congo: Secret of Zinj August 1995[5] Visual Concepts Viacom New Media
Cooly Skunk unknown[11][12][13] Visit Jaleco
Dragon's Heaven late 95'[14] Digitalware Data East
Fang of Alnam (Alnam no Kiba: Shouzoku Juunishin-to Densetsu) 1996[15][16] Right Stuff
Felicia 1995 Tonkin House
Firearm 1994[5] Malibu Interactive Malibu Interactive
Fireteam Rogue 1994[5] Accolade Accolade
Future Zone 1993[17][18] Electro Brain
Gaishin Senki: Millennium Sword 1995[19] Magifact
Golden Empire 1993[20] Culture Brain Culture Brain
Jelly Boy 2 1994[5] Game Freak Sony Imagesoft
Joe VS. The Wall 1992[21][22] Ocean Software Ocean Software
Kaboom: The Mad Bomber Returns (also known as Kaboom! 2) 1993-1994[23] High Voltage Software Activision
Kid Kirby 1995[24] DMA Design Nintendo
Killer Instinct 2 1996[25] Rare Midway Games
Les trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) Loriciel
Lobo 1996[5] Ocean Software Ocean Software
Mer Wars 1990[26] Synergistic
Metamor Kid Goomin (Goromin) Bullet-Proof Software)
Molotov Man 1994[27] Sensible Software
Monster Truck Wars 1994 Acclaim Entertainment
Mumu Boukenki Amusing Dream Takara Amusement
My Neighbor Totoro 1992[28] Tokuma Shoten
Nandemo!? Taihoman 1995[29] Namco Namco
Ochanoma Densetsu mid-1992 or early 1993[30] Information Global Service
Popil 1991[31] Sunsoft
PoPoLoCrois 1996[32]
Prime 1994[5] Malibu Interactive Malibu Interactive
Project Dream / Dream: Land of Giants 1996[33] Rare Nintendo
Quik the Thunder Rabbit 1995[5] Stywox Titus Interactive
Radio Flyer 1992[34] Ocean Software
Rayman 1995[35][36][37] Ubisoft
Reactor 1991[38] Argonaut Software
Resident Evil 1994[39] Capcom Nintendo (possible)
Robosaurus 1992 Adrenalin Entertainment THQ
Rocket Knight Adventures 1993[40] Konami Konami
Satellite Man 1993[41] T&E Soft Bullet-Proof Software
Shadow Stalker 1993 Athena
Super Shantae 1994[42][43] WayForward Technologies N/A
The Shadow 1994[5] Ocean Software Ocean Software
Shadowhawk 1994[5] Studio e Studio e
Spellcraft 1994[5] Ybarra Productions ASCII
Steven Seagal is the Final Option 1994[5] Riedel Software Productions TecMagik
Street Dunk Nippon Bussan
Super Battletoads 1994[44] Rare Tradewest
Super Shadow of the Beast 1993[45] Psygnosis IGS Inc.
Sylvester and Tweety 1995 Visual Concepts Sunsoft
Thunder in Paradise 1994[46] The Software Toolworks
T-MEK 1995 Eastridge Technology Time Warner Interactive
Tom vs. Jerry: The Chase is On! 1995 Software Creations Hi Tech Expressions
Transformers 1994[47] Argonaut Games Takara
Universal Soldier 1992 The Code Monkeys Accolade
Venom Spirit 1994 Software Creations (Pickford brothers)
Wile E's Revenge / Wile E Coyote's Revenge 1995 Software Creations Sunsoft
Wrestlerage 1991[48] Rare
Yoshitsune Densetsu 1993[49] ASCII

References

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  28. ^ "My Neighbor Totoro [SNES - Cancelled] - Unseen64". 21 February 2020.
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  33. ^ Reeves, Ben. "Dream Project: The Secret History Of Banjo-Kazooie". Game Informer. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
  34. ^ Nintendo Power, Pak Watch - CES Special, Publication date: March 1992, Volume: 34, Pages: 112-113
  35. ^ "Early Super Nintendo Rayman Prototype Released". 3 July 2017.
  36. ^ "Michel Ancel on Instagram: "Incroyable !!!! We have found the old unique Rayman SNES ROM !!!! It was sleeping for 24 years ..... Time to wake it up !!!!"".
  37. ^ "A Prototype Build of the Never Completed SNES Rayman Game is Now on the Internet". 3 July 2017.
  38. ^ Reactor [Unreleased] (Super Nintendo Entertainment System Gameplay). RetroCysper. 12 January 2022. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2023 – via YouTube.
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  40. ^ Nintendo Power, Pak Watch - CES Special, Publication date: March 1993, Volume: 46, Pages: 112
  41. ^ 蛇METAL [@Arc_Hound] (March 6, 2019). "Two unreleased Super NES games shown at the Winter '93 CES show. Satellite Man, a superhero beat-'em-up developed by T&E Soft that would've been published by BPS in the U.S., and Future Zone, a sci-fi action game by Electro Brain. From the Mar. '93 issue of Micom BASIC Magazine. https://t.co/ch4JahQh8e" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2023 – via Twitter.
  42. ^ "Who is Shantae?".
  43. ^ Bozon, Matt [@MrBozon] (April 23, 2021). "Erin created Shantae to be for the SNES originally. So playing with a SNES wireless controller today, finally, 27 years later on Nintendo hardware - wow it's hard to describe how awesome this feels! ⁦❤️👏🧞♀️ @Erinbozon⁩ https://t.co/66VedYshvW" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2023 – via Twitter.
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  49. ^ "Yoshitsune Densetsu [SNES - Cancelled] - Unseen64". 26 June 2020.
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