Hellraiser

Mr. GimmickMr. Gimmick
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Hey anyone heard of the abbandoned hellraiser project for the NES. The game was supposed to have state of the art technology with more sound channels and enhanced graphics. Anyone heard of any prototypes of this? Too bad it was never released , it would have been an awsome game.

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  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    The game never even made it into proto form from what I have been able to find out. They were trying to make the NES do something it wasn't capable of doing.

    ~~NGD
  • Mr. GimmickMr. Gimmick
    yeah, it sounded pretty high tek for the time, it sounded like it would be even more advanced than an snes game
  • Braveheart69Braveheart69
    Ah yes it did Jason, I even have a poster from inside a Color Dreams game that has a pic of it. From what I have been able to find out they made it but it was so damn expensive for the parts that they were going to have to charge over $100 a game and they thought no way anyone would pay that back then.



  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    From what I heard and found out from the Color Dreams people I spoke with it never got out of development phase. They made promo stuff, someone has a roll of stickers in fact but they could never make it work correctly from what I have heard. Maybe DreamTR will chime in on this thread, he may know more than anyone on it..

    ~~NGD
  • Dr. MorbisDr. Morbis
    ^ Well that proto could be anything (or nothing) really, but it certainly does pique one's curiosity!



    As a side note: man Mr. Gimmick you sure are going hog-wild aren't you! 39 posts in your first day is certainly something. I haven't seen someone with such blatant enthusiasm for all things NES in a long long time. Good to see... good to see image
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    Leave it to me to introduce someone to the site that is a bigger post whore than me, if that is possible.....hehe

    ~~NGD
  • jaredkkjaredkk
    Originally posted by: Braveheart69

    Ah yes it did Jason, I even have a poster from inside a Color Dreams game that has a pic of it. From what I have been able to find out they made it but it was so damn expensive for the parts that they were going to have to charge over $100 a game and they thought no way anyone would pay that back then.


    This is what I heard also.  The game was finished, but because of the hardware, they would have had to charge a ridiculously high price for it. 
  • LimbofunkLimbofunk
    Martin has some great articles on color dreams on NESWorld he wrote a long time ago...pretty sure that he said the game never made it into an actual prototype stage, but it has been quite a few years since I have read it.  He had something like a six part article that is amazingly informative. 
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    TRM from the Warpzone also talked with several Color Dreams guys and he didn't think it was ever actually made either.



    Warpzone Article

    Color Dreams' most innovative project of 1990 was their Hellraiser "Super Cartridge" project. Phil Mikkelson had purchased the rights to make a Hellraiser game based off of the popular movie series. Ron Risley was hired to design a special (more powerful) cartridge for this game. Ron told us that "My recollection is that the original NES cartridge used two ROMs, one is a character generator and one with the program code. What I did with the Super Cart was create a complete Z-80 computer with its own ROM and RAM, and then mapped a second access stream into the Z-80 RAM for the NES console.




    I am nearly positive that this one never made it into cart form into any type of playable level. . . .

    ~~NGD
  • nesworld3nesworld3
    Originally posted by: Braveheart69

    Ah yes it did Jason, I even have a poster from inside a Color Dreams game that has a pic of it. From what I have been able to find out they made it but it was so damn expensive for the parts that they were going to have to charge over $100 a game and they thought no way anyone would pay that back then.



    Sorry to bump this old thread. But the Hellraiser cartridge pictured in the phamplet included with P'radikus Comflict is actually not the Hellraiser cart but a mockup made by Phil Mikkelson of American Video Entertainment fame while he was in charge of marketing at Color Dreams.
  • NewUser123456789NewUser123456789
    Did you lose the password to your other account?
  • dangevindangevin
    lol someone asks him about this in every thread, Paul image His cookies don't "take" with his other accounts here somehow, I think.
  • VGS_fcgamerVGS_fcgamer
    I remember several years back when someone had claimed that he found a proto of hellraiser, short incomplete demo of the title and then the character walking down a hallway. i always wrote this off as bogus since i never saw any pictures, and as for any other protos, etc? A computer version was worked on for sure, NES? I always felt that something minor was done, but not really anything that would be likelty to surface.
  • zeekozeeko
    Old thread resurrection or what?



    although I have been a bit interested in the latest updates on gimmicks homebrew version!
  • NewUser123456789NewUser123456789
    Originally posted by: dangevin

    lol someone asks him about this in every thread, Paul image His cookies don't "take" with his other accounts here somehow, I think.


    ok thanks Dan... I've been wondering and finally had to ask..
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    Well the officially word for the company is that the game never made if off the ground. They were working on the hardware but the actually coding for the game never happened. There was a lot of internal fighting about the game and that is why it didn't happen. Color Dreams was all but done at this point and Wisdom Tree was the money maker. All the WT staff was pissed that about them doing Hellraiser which went against their new religious corporate culture....or so I have been told.

    ~~NGD
  • TokinAlotTokinAlot
    ^Yeah I could see where Hellraiser wouldn't sit well with WT.It would have been a bad ass game though(or maybe not looking at Nightmare on Elm St. and Friday the 13th).Is Gimmick still working on this?I'm not really into homebrew but I would buy this one.
  • Maydogg6Maydogg6
    I just read through the article from the first post, nothing too new but in the part about Hellraiser I enjoyed thig:
    "Other known unreleased and/or abandoned game projects in the history of Color Dreams include: Code Blue, Escape from Atlantis, Free Fall, Happy Camper, Happily Ever After, Starblade, Storm Lords, and Targhan"

    Mostly because, Happy Camper unreleased no more.
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    and we have all read the Code Blue stuff now as well image Escape from Atlantis is already out there as well, and I have Free Fall siting not 10 ft from me now image

    ~~NGD
  • nesworld3nesworld3
    I still remember the way Escape from Atlantis arrived in my mailbox, I had to change underwear (no not really) but I was hyper hyped :-)
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