Post by Adrastia on Jul 12, 2017 0:47:00 GMT
I'm putting this here because I am specifically referring to the physical commercially released carts that are not reproductions made later down the line. I hope that's ok. I know that technically since the ROM was dumped it is actually found in some form.
www.gamefaqs.com/snes/915476-bobbys-world
The exact existence of commercially released cartridges has always been debated. The game is officially listed as cancelled.
Here's some more info about the game, which was supposed to be released in 1995: snescentral.com/article.php?id=0119
Hi-Tech Expressions ended up cancelling a bunch of games for the SNES, Game Gear and Genesis and I'm assuming they just went under. The developer, RSP is no longer around either. Their last game is listed as coming out in December of 1993. That game was Beethoven: The Ultimate Canine Caper. Meaning that Bobby's World and another cancelled game set for a 1994 release, Steven Seagal is The Final Option, may have been the last hurrah for RSP. So the reason that Bobby's World was cancelled may have simply been that both the developer and publisher went out of business and there was no money to get the game out there.
If you look at the game lists for RSP and Hi Tech Expressions they are pretty much the same. So either they were affiliated or worked with each other a lot.
www.gamefaqs.com/company/73344-rsp
www.gamefaqs.com/company/73093-hi-tech-expressions
However, I swear that I had seen this game for sale/rent. Others have too. And it would have been in the 90s. It's possible some rental copies existed or maybe there was indeed a very small release. But given that I could be dead wrong about the existence of such copies in retail stores that wouldn't be selling bootlegs, I have no idea if I am right or not. My main issue, as always, is that if commercially produced copies existed collectors would have them.
The Bobby's World wiki claims that the SNES version exists and the Playstation version was cancelled.
bobbys-world.wikia.com/wiki/Bobby's_World_(1994_Video_Game)
*copy the link. it seems that the link function doesn't like parenthesis*
This says Siedel Software Production. But it could be a typo for Riedel if they mean RSP.
I just don't find it plausible that the serious collectors who love posting their collections on Youtube and other places wouldn't have already managed to track down a legit commercially released copy. I have bought carts in the past from places like Game Gallery that still had rental stickers from places like West Coast Video and Blockbuster. So it is possible for rental copies to end up in second hand game store shelves. If rentals existed or some prototype cart was somehow sold secondhand then maybe that's what people saw. But I'm starting to doubt my own memory since no one seems to have an actual legit copy and you'd think that it would have turned up by now. I'm thinking I saw it at places that would not sell bootlegs even by accident like Toys R Us. But if I saw it in a rental place that means it's the possibility that it was not legit.
Does anyone remember seeing it? Especially for sale at a reputable commercial retailer? People keep claiming they did. Yet just like me they can't prove it. And i'm not the kind of person that will say "I'm 100% right!" without some kind of proof that I can present.
www.gamefaqs.com/snes/915476-bobbys-world
The exact existence of commercially released cartridges has always been debated. The game is officially listed as cancelled.
Here's some more info about the game, which was supposed to be released in 1995: snescentral.com/article.php?id=0119
This game is still under debate whether it was released or not. The game was competed, there is no doubt about it, and the rom image was dumped. The game was being released by a company called Hi Tech. It was being planned for release in early 1995.
If you look at the game lists for RSP and Hi Tech Expressions they are pretty much the same. So either they were affiliated or worked with each other a lot.
www.gamefaqs.com/company/73344-rsp
www.gamefaqs.com/company/73093-hi-tech-expressions
However, I swear that I had seen this game for sale/rent. Others have too. And it would have been in the 90s. It's possible some rental copies existed or maybe there was indeed a very small release. But given that I could be dead wrong about the existence of such copies in retail stores that wouldn't be selling bootlegs, I have no idea if I am right or not. My main issue, as always, is that if commercially produced copies existed collectors would have them.
The Bobby's World wiki claims that the SNES version exists and the Playstation version was cancelled.
bobbys-world.wikia.com/wiki/Bobby's_World_(1994_Video_Game)
*copy the link. it seems that the link function doesn't like parenthesis*
Bobby's World is a 1994 platformer video game developed by Siedel Software Productions and published by Hi Tech Entertainment for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and SEGA Game Gear based on the popular television show of the time, Bobby's World. A version of the game was scheduled to be released on Sony's Playstation in 1995 but was cancelled during its early stages of production.
This says Siedel Software Production. But it could be a typo for Riedel if they mean RSP.
I just don't find it plausible that the serious collectors who love posting their collections on Youtube and other places wouldn't have already managed to track down a legit commercially released copy. I have bought carts in the past from places like Game Gallery that still had rental stickers from places like West Coast Video and Blockbuster. So it is possible for rental copies to end up in second hand game store shelves. If rentals existed or some prototype cart was somehow sold secondhand then maybe that's what people saw. But I'm starting to doubt my own memory since no one seems to have an actual legit copy and you'd think that it would have turned up by now. I'm thinking I saw it at places that would not sell bootlegs even by accident like Toys R Us. But if I saw it in a rental place that means it's the possibility that it was not legit.
Does anyone remember seeing it? Especially for sale at a reputable commercial retailer? People keep claiming they did. Yet just like me they can't prove it. And i'm not the kind of person that will say "I'm 100% right!" without some kind of proof that I can present.
