Museum of Dead Adventures
 

Hey there everyone!

I was recently reading the Sam & Max 2 thread, the one about creating a museum as a tribute to the game, in order to not let everyone forget about this potentially great adventure.

I was wondering if there's any way AG would also create a tribute museum for other cancelled adventure projects, like Star Trek Secret of Vulcan Fury, Larry 8 Lust in Space, etc. It could be just one page, a tribute page not as big as the intended Sam and Max 2 museum. Nethertheless, I think even just a small tribute page would be more than welcome to those adventure fans who never saw their game released after so many hype.

I would like to hear what the AG readers think of this idea.

i think it's a really good idea, finding information on these games is going to be kinda hard...

first i think we should make a list of all to be adventure games that were canceled

toonstruck 2
warcraft adventures
SAM and max 2
LSL 8
EDIT** Full throttle 2
i cant think of any others..

Add Southpeak's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" game.
I think you mean Full Throttle 2. I've played Full Throttle.

Of course you can always debate if Full Throttle 2 was an adventure game. :rolleyes: :P
But let's not go down that road.

I like the idea, but it's going to be one hell of a job gathering info. If AGers is to do something like this it would probably have to be a joint operation (so to speak) like the Sam & Max museum is.

Lets not forget those adventures that never made it past the planning stages or didn't get the green light.

Two I'd like to nominate straight off are Gabriel Knight 4 (which Jane Jensen said she even pitched to Sierra in the recent past) and of course Project Jane-J.

project jane j is'nt dead..it was put on hold..

Ohhh Vulcan Fury, due out in 45 days .... there was a full page ad in PC Gamer... then 2 weeks later it was canceled.... :shifty:

Damn.

This is absolutely something I want to do, though I want to focus on Sam & Max 2 first.

The next two games I would want to do would be Secret of Vulcan Fury and Warcraft Adventures. They fall under the category of truly getting the ax. LSL8 and SQ7 never really made it too far into the development stage. FT2 may have been the all-time mercy killing. And Jane-J, as was said, is not a dead game yet.

But certainly I like the idea of honoring deceased adventure games and hope that we can do something like that for many games over the next year.

- Evan

what exactly do you plan on doing with the whole SAM and max thing? are you going to be making a tribute web page or one giant Could of been preview?
EDIT: never mind that comment, should of read the other museum forum

I think there was supposed to be a sequel to Infocom's "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". They also had plans for another Planetfall game which never went anywhere.

speaking of hitchhickers guide. dreamworks is working on a big budget movie remake of the BBC mini series.
http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/main.html

Man, that sounds depressing when read the wrong way.

I just did a google search on Warcraft Adventures, and boy did that game look good.

http://www.demonsoflight.net/AreaGio...onceptArt3.htm

Yeah, Warcraft Adventures sure looked promising and exciting, but still Blizzard pulled the plug ;(

They had even finalized the box art for the game

http://www.war3.com/lotc/wa.gif

You might want to delete one of those posts Kolzig. ;)

Wow, how did that happen :D

Well anyway problem solved, thanks mattsius.

No problem.

wOw! when and why did the cancel that Warcraft thingy? I´ve never heard of it before but it looks like real porn to me_! :9

:eek:

Uhm, okay. :crazy:

Does simon 2d counts?

http://przygodoskop.gry-online.pl/artykuly/a02.html
site is in polish, but there are titles and screenshots of few dead AGs

:9~ yeh lookin real sexy..flashing those big pixels..mmmm

Wow, great link! Lots of good screenshots.:)

I had forget about Curly's Adventure, there was even a full demo for the game. There is an article here:
Curly's Adventure

The only other link I know of cancelled adventures is this one, it doesn't have as many screenshots as yours, I'm afraid, but there are a few.

Unfinished Games

Make sure you remember BOTH cancelled Sam and Max sequels.

Oh, and in the Inventory's preview of A Vampyre Story, they mentioned a game called Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix that never saw the light of day.

Yep. That's my personal number two "greatest waste of all time in the video game industry". :( :frusty: and :r . And :\ too.

Khm... So what about Simon 2d?
http://www.simon3d.com/main_frame.htm

That's my number 3.

Wow, I thought it was bad enough that they cancelled Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels, but the fact that I just find out, on another AG forum thread, this other Full Throttle: Payback project was also cancelled, is even worse!

http://www.billtiller.com/projects/untited1.asp

http://www.mixnmojo.com/php/site/gamedb.php?gameid=116

http://www.mixnmojo.com/galleries/ga...age=550&goback

There are certainly a lot of potential entries for the Museum of Dead Adventures project...:sad:

What about simon 4 i heard they had a story for it but just didnt go a head as no one will help them produce it otherwise they would happily make it

I believe this should sufficiently answer you're question...

Guess that game aint ever going to see the light of day, shame though.

Hey, there!

I know this thread has been dead for quite a while, but I found some info on another cancelled game, and I am also curious to know more about the Sam & Max 2 museum that AG was planning to do. Is the Sam & Max 2 museum closer to be created now?

The other cancelled game is Little Big Adventure 3, here are some links:

http://www.twinadv.com/index.php?action=view&id=3

http://www.geocities.com/lba_simon/Littlebig3.html

http://twinsoo.tripod.com/thedream.htm

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc-spiele/adventure/14906/
(page in german)

i have the first 2 LBA games on cd but have never played them. don't even think i can run them.

I'm not positive but wasn't there a new Zork game in production a few years ago? i never did see it released.

If anybody is interested in cancelled adventures, you should definitely check out my 'For Absent Friends' post in the Adventure forum. Lots of info :)

By the way, gg, you can run them. The first LBA has an emulator of his own, LBA_win, and the second one can be run with VDMSound I think.

It was an adventure that had RPG elements (even RTS elements), but Ron Gilbert's Good & Evil (produced at Cavedog) was the game I was most excited about for a long time. There was a tiny bit of info on it, with about 3 screenshots, in an issue of PC Gamer, but that was enough to get me excited. It was due for the end of 1999 but never got completed.

The Sharky Extreme preview should give some idea of what it would have been like. Basically lots of time-travelling involving the eternal fight between good and evil in different periods, allowing you to visit Medieval times, Feudal Japan, the Wild West, a pirate land, etc. and gather a crazy RPG-style party of different characters to help you along the way.

This PC Gamer interview also has some details on the game.

It sounded incredibly ambitious, but I've not heard much about why it was actually abandoned. I was sad when I heard it had been, but unlike Sam & Max: Freelance Police I'd heard few facts and seen very few screenshots. So it was less painful a loss. These two games are probably the ones I wish had been finished and released the most though.

I never even heard this game, it certainly did look promising. By the way, I didn't even know Ron worked with Cavedog, I sure hope he did not work on those two big Total Annihilation turkeys! :D

He was a producer on both titles and did some design and story work.

Thanks! :)

I found the link:

For Absent Friends

I'll whore Mixnmojo's entry database for info on a few other cancelled sequels by LucasArts.

Forge, the canceled sequel to the fantasy adventure Loom

The Fold, the third game in the Loom series, which was scrapped before production began

There's also Loom designer Brian Moriarty's version of The Dig, which got quite far into production before being abandoned. We've been fortunate enough to get a lot of cool art from that version from former LEC employees.

And of course, there's the aforementioned Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix, which survived in comic-book form.

Edit: Also, Infinite Machine's console-only Sam and Max game.

Found this from Idle T

'tis a cryin' shame, good laddie. :sad: