{"id":500,"date":"2013-07-09T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2013-07-01T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:57:59","slug":"onm-remembered-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered – #120"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Let’s hope it’s not a Mega Man Kart game.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nfrom Total 64 volume 1, issue 12 (unknown date)<\/p>\n

Total 64 were right daft and didn’t include the release date on any of their magazines, which is a mite frustrating. This one probably dates from late 1997, though.<\/p>\n

So, what became of these Capcom titles? The Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts<\/i> game went through development hell before morphing into Maximo<\/i>, which was later released on the PlayStation 2; the Mega Man<\/i> game was eventually revealed to be a mere port of Mega Man Legends<\/i> (I don’t know if that was the intention all along, or if they had meant to make an N64-exclusive game before becoming lazy sods)… and the racing game, as far as I can tell, never materialised! I thought it was Mickey’s Speedway USA<\/i>, but I just looked it up and it turns out Rare made that. Capcom did make a Disney Tetris<\/i> game, though. Because what the N64 absolutely needed was more Tetris<\/i> games.<\/p>\n

Amusingly, another magazine (N64 Magazine, I believe) around the same time reported this news, with a statement from Capcom claiming they had no interest in bringing their biggest franchises, Resident Evil<\/i> or Street Fighter<\/i>, to the N64 because they were hoping to present a more family-friendly image. Which is something Ninty could probably have done without. Resident Evil 2<\/i> did eventually make an appearance on N64, but I imagine by that point it was too little too late.<\/p>\n

And I guess that Frogger<\/i> game never saw release either, huh? Disappointment of the decade, for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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