List of vaporware
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This page is an incomplete list of known examples of vaporware, in alphabetical order by product name:
- Action Gamemaster - a handheld device designed by Active Enterprises
- The Nintendo Entertainment System port of Deja Vu II, which was completed but never released.
- 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 Super Mario Galaxy.
- 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]
- 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]
- 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
- Psyclapse - a hyped 8-bit "mega-game" which never made off paper.
- 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)
- m-o-o-t - an "open source" bootable security CD in development since 2000
- Rainbow Technology Supposedly allows you to store up to 450GB on a single A4 size paper.
- Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans - a video game set in the Warcraft universe, following the adventures of a young Thrall. This would have been his original appearance, however it was cancelled. [3]
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