List of vaporware
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This page is an incomplete list of known examples of vaporware, in alphabetical order by product name:
[edit] List of Vaporware
- Action Gamemaster - a handheld device designed by Active Enterprises
- Psyclapse - a hyped 8-bit "mega-game" which never made off paper.
- Call of Cthulhu: Destiny's End - Company went into liquidation due to debts owed after the lengthy production of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.
- Duke Nukem Forever - a video game produced by 3D Realms still in development since 1996.
- Elite 4 - a video game produced by Frontier Developments specifically by David Braben.→
- Glaze3D - a graphics card designed by BitBoys Oy.
- L600 - a Linux-based game console/computer produced by Indrema
- Mario 128 - a video game in development by Nintendo, which apparently evolved into Pikmin.
- The Nintendo Entertainment System port of Deja Vu II, which was completed but never released, though a GameBoyColor port WAS released.
- Ovation - An integrated software package for DOS that was announced by Ovation Technologies in 1983. Written about in many computer magazines at the time, Ovation was never released.[1]
- Phantom - a console gaming system developed by Infinium Labs
- Project Xanadu - a hypertext content delivery system, postulated prior to the advent of the World Wide Web
- Rainbow Technology Supposedly allows you to store up to 450GB on a single A4 size paper.
- SNES Nintendo Disk a.k.a. Philips CD-ROM XA-a system developed in 1992 to compete with the Playstation prototype, which was designed in 1991. [2]
- StarCraft: Ghost - a first person shooter based on the StarCraft world by Blizzard - is now "postponed indefinitely" after 5 years of development
- Vantive's Lawsuit in the late 90's (http://www.law.com/regionals/ca/opinions/mar/0016136.shtml)
- Woodcutters From Fiery Ships, a CD-ROM game by David Lynch that was to be developed by Synergy (http://www.geocities.com/~mikehartmann/game.html)
[edit] Surfaced Vaporware
Products which once were widely considered to be Vaporware which eventually surfaced after a prolonged time:
- Prey - originally announced in 1995, the project was halted in 1998. After Human Head Studios began working on the project in 2001, with its ultimate release on June 22, 2006.
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl - originally announced in 2001, the game experienced numerous delays. Beta builds of the final product have been distributed to numerous game review sites [3]. On March 3 2007, THQ announced that the game had gone gold and was released on March 20 2007, though it was leaked three days earlier.
