Ainori- Canceled (aparently) PS1 game, early-mid 1990's

First of all, Tecmo isn't defunct. I think they're the developers of Dead or Alive and Fatal Frame; Koei Tecmo are the ones in charge of anything Musou/Warriors and Warriors Orochi related, alongside Omega Force.

While the info about the game is scarce, if we assume the game was based on the TV show, then Ainori CAN'T be an early PS1 game since the TV show's original broadcast started in 1999 (according to Wikipedia, October 11, 1999), so it would've been a late PS1 game, which means that Tecmo could've decided to cancel the game before the PS2 was about to arrive.

Googling the Japanese name followed by PS1 will lead you to a bunch of car games like Crazy Taxi and a blog talking about a budget game part of the Simple 1500 Series, called THE ゼロヨン (the zeroyon), this one wasn't released outside of Japan. At first, I thought The Zeroyon could be Ainori, but it turns out that the budget game was developed by Quintet (Planet Laika, co-developed with Zeque, they also made Kowloon's Gate). It was released in 2001, so the timeline fits.

This is all I could find. Honestly I believe that Ainori could've been like Irritating Stick (seriously): a PS1 game based on a TV Show, but it got cancelled, most likely because the PS2 was on its way; even tho in Japan, the PS1 officially died until 2007. They probably thought this situation was similar to the bunch of Nintendo 64 games being ported to the GameCube or canceled because of the cube's release.

If you're interested, this is the Japanese blog that appeared when I searched for Ainori in Japanese, talking about The Zeroyon: sinplelove.jp/blog-entry-4908.html

[edit]: Searching for "Ainori Tecmo" lead me to this: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tecmo_promotional_model_and_Ainori_van_at_Tokyo_Game_Show_20081011.jpg

also, if it really was cancelled for that reason, than why is there so little information about it? was the game just that obscure? or were they intentionally removing information about it? 

the former is probably more likely i guess, but the more interesting would be the latter

well, if it was a hoax, than why does gamespot even have a page on it?

if gamespot isn't known for inncuracies, than this is most likely a real cancelled game.

i used the initial famitsu link you gave me and it said that the page was deleted, so i had to skim through the wikipedia article you linked me to find the actual page through the source links. turns out the famitsu page really does exist, its just you can only get to it through wikipedia for some strange reason. 

the screenshot is of the famitsu page itself