GameCube: A Video History That Never Was
by Zac Shipley, filed in Capcom, GameCube, Mario, Metroid, Nintendo, Zelda on Aug.06, 2006
“The Nintendo Difference” – a promo video released before the GameCube launch, with a lot of footage of games like Raven Blade and Donkey Kong Racing that never came out, in addition to a look at Kameo (which eventually came out on Xbox360) and some clearly pre-rendered concepts of Mario Kart and Metroid Prime alongside the infamous Legend Of Zelda Link/Gannondorf fight.
“Mario 128″ Demo, which is either a tech demo or some kind of hint at an oddball sandbox game, it didn’t prepare us for or even hint at Super Mario Sunshine.
“Raven Blade” was developed by Retro Studios, who were taken off the project to create Metroid Prime, and are still on the franchise today. Retro was also apparently developing a football
game.
“Dead Phoenix” was a Capcom developed game that was to be exclusive to the Gamecube, along with Resident Evil, Viewtiful Joe, PN 03, and Killer 7. It was never released, and rest were ported to Playstation eventually with the exception of the space dancing shooter PN03.
“Rebirth” – this one got a lot of people talking as it seemed to have a lot more hints that it might be an actual game than the usual oddball tech demos that are shown. 6 years later, all that exists is this video.
“StarCraft: Ghost” which was a game cancelled for Gamecube, then cancelled for Playstation and Xbox, and finally cancelled altogether. Multiplayer was even looking good. Along with World Of Warcraft, Blizzard was trying to take one of their franchises in a brand new direction, and its a pity it never seemed to work.

















August 6th, 2006 on 6:58 pm
That whole thing was super-hot. Nice work!
~Sean
August 7th, 2006 on 5:45 am
[...] With the gamecube only really having about two games left to look forward to and the imminent arrival of wii and PS3 have a look over here for some game cube games that never were, below is a video of Dead Phoenix one that I would love to see Capcom release. [...]
August 7th, 2006 on 8:29 am
[...] GameCube: A Video History That Never Was [...]
August 7th, 2006 on 11:17 am
[...] Several promo videos and trailers for rarely seen, forgotten, or cancelled games for Nintendo’s little purple box. Perhaps if more of these made it to market, it would’ve celebrated more success.read more | digg story [...]
August 7th, 2006 on 8:13 pm
[...] Head on over to the Gamecube video history at Powet.TV and take a look. It hurts to see what we missed out on, but it’s still worth checking out. Of all the games, Starcraft: Ghost was the most exciting for me — but I guess we’ll never know… [...]
August 8th, 2006 on 10:42 am
[...] The homie Zac Shipley over at Powet posted an article about an old video trailer featuring several gamecube games that were never released for the gamecube. One has to wonder is the Gamecube would have done better if any of those games had actually been released. [...]
August 11th, 2006 on 5:37 am
[...] Several promo videos and trailers for rarely seen, forgotten, or cancelled games for Nintendo’s little purple box. Perhaps if more of these made it to market, it would’ve celebrated more success.read more | digg story [...]
August 11th, 2006 on 10:19 am
Awww… that Donkey Kong Racing game looks like a lot of fun.
October 12th, 2006 on 10:22 am
[...] Αναμφισβήτητα στο gamecube έχουν βγει φοβερά παιχνίδια όπως το Metroid Prime 2 και το Super Smash Bros. Melee. Όπως όμως και σε κάθε κονσόλα κάποια παιχνίδια δεν είδαν ποτέ το φως της ημέρας ή μάλλον τα χέρια των καταναλωτών gamers! Στο παρακάτω site υπάρχει μια αρκετά μεγάλη συλλογή βίντεο-trailers από παιχνίδια που έχουν γίνει cancelled για το Gamecube. Για παράδειγμα ,υπάρχει το Kameo που ως γνωστόν αφού αγοράστηκε η Rare από τη Microsoft μετακόμισε στο Xbox 360. Technorati Tags: Cancelled Games, Gamecube, Nintendo, wiggler Socially Bookmark Gamecube: Ακυκλοφόρητα παιχνίδια