/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7956646
>>cocoron (hoarded by a private collector)

Sur de Wave's sstory is pretty sad. They were an all-star team of devs, and they had a few games like Little Samson and Cocoron made for the Famicom presumably because it was quick and cheap to produce them and the Famicom was still popular in japan. However, it really meant these games had little traction outside of Japan when they could have been hits in America if made for the Mega Drive or Super-Fami. Then they made Nostalgia 1907, a text adventure set on an early 20th century luxury liner.

The game bombed. Why did they even make it? Kouichi Yotsui was given a green light by management to create whatever he wanted with whatever budget because he had made Strider. This is a cautionary tale, where people whine about big bad execs, but sometimes creative types make stupid decisions that sink companies.

The result is that people started to jump ship and the company was nearly bankrupt. Akira Kitamura left first, and joined Mitchel where he made Funky Jet. It led to the cancellation of a number of projects. PC Cocoron is either a remake or sequel of Cocoron for the PC-Engine seemingly made after Kitamura had left the company. And Pop'n Land is a game with a similar premise made for the Mega CD. Both cancelled and both supposedly nearly complete with prototypes held by collectors.

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Sur_D%C3%A9_Wave

If Cocoron and Little Samson were SFC and PCE games I think the history of the company would be totally different.

>>6583407
When the fuck is somebody going to release Pop'n Land? Fucking hoarders.

>>6092963
Please be Pop'n Land for sega cd.
>Please be Pop'n Land for sega cd.

>>6065516
Pop'n Land

>>5920584
Pop'n Land looks like fun. Sega CD missed out on a great platformer.

>>5900967
;_;7 damn hoarder scum

I want to go to pop'n land

>>5588151
Do unreleased games count?