Unpublished game for NES discovered 30 years later

The video game industry has been around for decades. The history of games has a lot of pages that are not very well known even to those of us who are passionate about games and everything connected with them. Well, there are episodes, which becomes known only after many years.

It happened with one of the games for the NES. The game, which is a wrestling simulator, saw the light only as a prototype . It has never been published. Played a game just a few days ago. As it turned out, it was made in 1989 by the Japanese developer Thinking Rabbit (the author of Sokoban), and the Japanese company Seta was to become the publisher.

As for wrestling, in this case we are talking about UWC (Universal Wrestling Corporation), which later grew up in the World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The digital doubles of real fighters, Ric Flair, Road Warriors and Sting have been added to the game. Accordingly, the game was to receive permission to use from UWC and appear on store shelves.
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But that never happened. Perhaps because in 1990 another wrestling game was released, already licensed by WCW. It was a creation of a completely different developer and, accordingly, the game was different. There was no sense in releasing another wrestling, so, probably, they decided to abandon the creation of Thinking Rabbit.

At the same time, nothing was reported about the UWC - nobody knew anything about it at all. Now the prototype has been excavated by collector Stefan Reese.


According to him, the cartridge was received from a former employee of the American division of Nintendo. This man's game has been kept all these years, since he was responsible for the prototype test and making a review for the company's management. Plus, this man is a fan of wrestling, so it was he who fell to test the game.

Reese did not hide the cartridge in his bins, but shared his game with Video Game Foundation. Representatives of the latter recently made a dump and posted a video of the full passage, with a demonstration of these developers.


So far it is unclear whether the game will be made publicly available, but at least it is already possible to look at what it represented. Well, since the copy is the only one in the whole world, without a doubt, this is one of the rarest games. About its market price is not reported.