I remember playing Suicide Express on the commodore 64, one of the first cassette games to feature voice-recording, though it came out as "fshuishizzle exshcprizz".

I've got a case near my feet right now packed with at least 200 Commodore 64 games, never completed a single one of them either, back then games were HARD!

You'll scream if you remember this classic

I remember spending a few days not long ago looking up all the 'true' classic games of ye' old consoleth and seeing whatever became of them.

A 3D Turrican was being developed for quite some time, entitled (would you believe...) Turrican 3D. It was scrapped when the company developing it had financial problems.

On the same wave a sequal was being created to Fade To Black (Sequal to Flashback) entitled Flashback Legends, but was cancelled when Delphine Software went bankrupt... now Conrad Hart will forever drift alone in space, and no one will ever find out what happened to him

Sadly over the course of video game development many characters have been long lost and forgotten to the sands of time (a bit like this thread was for a few months). It saddens me that the characters I loved so much in video games such as Ristar and Dynamite Headdy will never again grace T.V screens across the world except when people play their original incarnations. (Or re-releases in the case of Ristar... I still whistle the bonus level theme at random even though I haven't played it in years!) Only games that truly made an impact, such as Ecco The Dolphin, Panzer Dragoon and Toejam & Earl were given a second-chance at life on next-gen consoles, and due to the modern genre of 'violence makes the video game' they never succeeded in becoming as popular as they had once been.

This is probably why Sega have been holding back a new Streets Of Rage game, they don't want to ruin it's reputation for those of us that cherish the fond memories these games gave us

Luckily Final Fantasy games have managed to constantly grow and evolve with the sands of time, which is how we are able to play it's latest incarnation. Thankfully some things do survive