It’s probably clear to you all by now that I’m here largely because of finding out about that game, and will stop at nothing to play it. (Nothing against the other VB games, but this one is my main interest for whatever reason.)
I’ve already read up about the game on sites like this one and virtual-boy.org, and have scoured the forums for additional information, such as the NoA employee who submitted a script for the game that was rejected, some bastard who claimed to have a 47% complete copy of the game and the IP rights and is probably lying, and that someone, somewhere has a prototype and won’t share a dump of it. There’s also some group calling themselves the Tower of Infinity out there that’s trying to get this game released(and also one that the aforementioned lying bastard was under the guise of), though I don’t know where to locate them and ask them about any info they may have gleaned.
All of that was in 2005 or so. It’s now 2008, and perhaps some new info or whatever has cropped up that I’m not aware of. It may take many more years from now before I play it, but I’m not going to stop my investigation until I either play it or die.
I could probably start by investigating that major distribution center that Nintendo supposedly has in Atlanta, since it should only be an hour or two away from where I live. I doubt I’ll get anything DH-related, but I won’t know until I try.
Next up would be the Nintendo of America HQ in Redmond, Washington, which I could probably visit whenever my family takes me to Washington to meet other family members. Perhaps that one guy who wrote the rejected script still works there, and there’s the chance that someone else may know something about the game that I don’t.
Finally, there would be Nintendo of Japan to investigate and especially Intelligent Systems, but I don’t expect to be taking any trips to Japan any time soon. My investigations there would probably be limited to e-mail.
So, is anyone here willing to help me kick-start another investigation? Perhaps we can actually find out who owns that prototype and isn’t sharing, and ask what they want in exchange for it. Or, if nothing else, we can just discuss the game.
That Planet Gamecube article taught me some interesting things about the NoA HQ, though I had to look it up on web.archive.org-and, even after that, I still had trouble bringing up some of the pages.
Also, as far as Dorin’s obscurity is concerned, I don’t think too many people today would have been aware of, say, the Ice Climbers if they weren’t in SSBM already. If I could just get this game released somehow, perhaps Dorin could garner just enough fame to be featured in the next game-if there even is a next SSB. (I don’t know how they could radically improve Brawl, anyway-at least not to the level of going from SSB64 to SSBM and then to SSBB.)
Anyway, I think I’m going to e-mail Intelligent Systems about the game, seeing as they were its developers. Are there any questions you want me to ask? (Or, would it be a better idea for us all to e-mail seperately so as to make it appear that more than one person in the world wants this game?)
EDIT: Just fired off an e-mail to IS. I hope they won’t mind me talking about an old, unreleased game for a generally-loathed platform in English when they could be developing games…Perhaps the rest of you ought to send e-mails about this game as well to let them know that there is a potential market for this game were it to be released(presumably on the Wii or DS).
