Did this game *ever* come out

[AndrewTS 0]

After playing some Alien Front the other night, I noticed an ad on the back of the manual for a game called Propeller Arena: Aviation Battle Championship.

 

The ad referred to it as "finally, a flight game for fighting game fanatics!" It sounded familiar--I'd read some previews on it way back when the DC was out. I looked up some info on it, and it's a game with a bunch of WWII-looking planes, where the object is primarily aerial combat/dog-fighting. Unfortunately, it never came out, at least here (GameFAQs lists it as "canceled" in North America). One message board guessed it had something to do with 9-11.

 

Anyone know if it came out in other parts of the world, or if there's a good game in the same style of it you could recommend?

 

Feel free to comment on some other promising games that were cancelled too, if you like.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I recall seeing screenshots (as in one for each) of both a Pinky and the Brain and a Duckman game... I'm sure both would have been awful but I can't help but wonder what happened. Duckman probably got cancelled when the show did but Pinky & The Brain... I don't know.

[Anya 0]

It did get cut due to 9/11. Not sure if it came out in any other country.

 

 

Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter and Primal Rage II would have been...ok.

[Matt Young 0]

I never did get to play Alien Front Online on the Dreamcast. They should release Alien Front for Xbox Live. I know a version of the game was scheduled for *shudder* N-gage.

[AndrewTS 0]

It did get cut due to 9/11. Not sure if it came out in any other country.

Any particular source? Wondering if any further info was given.

 

Seems fairly obvious why exactly (I see buildings in one of the screenshots in the ad...), but surely they could have found some way around it. Don't know if the environments were limited enclosures or a bit more vast. In the latter case I suppose it was unavoidable. Should have been merely delayed though.

 

Surprised nobody else came up with doing it before or since, especially considering dogfight scenes are often climaxes to sci fi movie blockbusters.

 

I never did get to play Alien Front Online on the Dreamcast. They should release Alien Front for Xbox Live. I know a version of the game was scheduled for *shudder* N-gage.

 

A souped up version would be great for one of the new portables--and sounds possible. Maybe not PSP, depending on what play modes Twisted Metal: Head On offers. Not sure about that. Kicking ass as the aliens is awesome.

 

Speaking of TM, do any of the newer TM games allow you to destroy monuments like in TM2? I'd guess not but maybe just non-US ones.

[Anya 0]

I know you can destroy mouments in the Paris level in Head On.

[AndrewTS 0]

Not surprised at all. Likely it's different in a similar US site though.

 

*fond memories of leveling the Eiffel Tower in TM2*

 

Of course monuments are a bit different than occupied buildings that happen to be landmarks. Regardless they might be a bit hesitant to put something like that in these days.

 

Smashing MTV/TRL studios should be fair game, though.

[Skywarp! 0]

For fucked up retro-gaming, see "Urban Strike," from 1994. In the New York level, a bomb goes off in the upper floors of the World Trade Center. Your mission is to heli-lift people off the crater in the side of the building (which looks eerily similar to 9/11). And yes, if you focus your firepower on monuments like the WTC, Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, you can destroy them.

 

I actually looked it up on Gamefaqs, this is severely fucked up: The game is set in 2001.

 

Here's a script for the New York level:

 

NEW YORK

 

[The Super Weapon is shown powering up, then shooting a laser off a

satellite and hitting the World Trade Center]

 

[briefing]

 

General: Malone has changed his tactics.

General: He is using a full force air strike and attacking civillian

targets in New York City.

General: This has caused widespread panic on the ground. Fleeing

civilians have pinned down our ground troops.

General: We need you to airlift in there and take out the Malone

Building command center.

General: Civilians are trapped in upper stories of burning skyscrapers.

His troops are keeping rescue away.

General: Take out as many of the enemy aircraft as you can find. This

will slow the attack.

General: Then figure out what you can do to rescue those civilians &

move them to a secure area. Special info...

General: Just arrived states that the NAFTA leaders are meeting in the

World Trade Center which has been in...

General: The center of this confusion. We believe they are being held

hostage.

General: Be on your toes. Good luck.

 

5. Trade Center

 

Time bomb in WTC C4 plastique explosives

5. Disarm the time bomb in

the World Trade Center.

Land on the pad next to

the buildings and send

your copilot inside to

cut the correct wire.

 

 

Mission Failure:

WTC--

General: The idea was to save the World Trade Center! Don't get so

wired next time.

[Neil-o-Mac 0]

A damn-near-finished version of Prop Arena got leaked to the net last year (same sort of situation as the as-good-as-finished Dreamcast version of Half-Life getting leaked). Naturally, I downloaded the ISO from alt.binaries.dreamcast and burned it. Not bad. I'm sure the online mode would've been fun.

[AndrewTS 0]

A damn-near-finished version of Prop Arena got leaked to the net last year (same sort of situation as the as-good-as-finished Dreamcast version of Half-Life getting leaked). Naturally, I downloaded the ISO from alt.binaries.dreamcast and burned it. Not bad. I'm sure the online mode would've been fun.

Can you play it on a regular DC?

 

If so, would you be able to hook me up perhaps? Clueless on the techy stuff--all I have is a traditional cd burner. I'd pay ya for one.

 

For fucked up retro-gaming, see "Urban Strike," from 1994

 

Ah yes...a classic.

 

Hey, programmers were so blissfully ignorant and innocent back then about that stuff. Can't really blame 'em. "Blowing **** up" without hurting anyone or causing real damage is one of the many reasons we play games.

[Skywarp! 0]

Oh, I'm not blaming video games, at all. I'm just saying it's eerie.

 

Here's some spine-shivering screenshots from the game.

 

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimat...43;t=000837;p=1

[Jericholic82 0]

That is kinda creepy. But not too surprising, considering it was a video game, and lots of movies and games had been made about blowing up landmarks..

 

Good thing the media hasn't got a hold of this yet.