10 Awesome Cancelled Video Games From Famous Franchises

10. Metroid 64

One of the most iconic and recurrent franchises belonging to Nintendo has appeared on all of the company's home consoles - all except one.

Being Nintendo's first console endowed with proper 3D graphics, the N64 came at that awkward time where it wasn't fashionable to make 2D games anymore, but really tough to make good 3D ones. Although Nintendo purportedly looked to take on Rare as a developer for Samus' 64-bit outing, Rare are thought to have turned down the offer, going on to make the suspiciously Metroid-like Jet Force Gemini instead.

Metroid creator Yoshio Sakamoto said that he didn't work on the game because he "couldn't imagine how the N64 controller could be used to move Samus around". This lead to but a mere prototype for the game being made by Toru Osawa, and what you see above is one of the precious few images of it in existence.

Sadly, that's as far as an N64-exclusive Super Metroid got.