Barbie: Vacation Adventure launches this November, as part of Barbie Rewind.
Developed by Software Creations, the company behind games like Solstice, Plok, and Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage, Barbie: Vacation Adventure is an unreleased game that was in development for the SNES and the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis back in 1994. Reportedly scheduled for release in November of that year, it was reviewed in publications such as Nintendo Power (a sign of just how close it was to being ready). However, it would ultimately never see a retail release, with the precise reasons for its cancellation seemingly being lost to time.
Some sources suggest it might have simply cost too much for its publisher Hi-Tech Expressions to release, but other possible reasons for its abandonment may have included the somewhat blunt reception the game received from members of the press (that aforementioned Nintendo Power review gave it 2s across the board) and the fact its ROMs seemed to be leaked as early as September 1994 by members of the scene group, Napalm.
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Barbie: Vacation Adventure launches this November, as part of Barbie Rewind.
Developed by Software Creations, the company behind games like Solstice, Plok, and Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage, Barbie: Vacation Adventure is an unreleased game that was in development for the SNES and the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis back in 1994. Reportedly scheduled for release in November of that year, it was reviewed in publications such as Nintendo Power (a sign of just how close it was to being ready). However, it would ultimately never see a retail release, with the precise reasons for its cancellation seemingly being lost to time.
Some sources suggest it might have simply cost too much for its publisher Hi-Tech Expressions to release, but other possible reasons for its abandonment may have included the somewhat blunt reception the game received from members of the press (that aforementioned Nintendo Power review gave it 2s across the board) and the fact its ROMs seemed to be leaked as early as September 1994 by members of the scene group, Napalm.
Read the full article on timeextension.com