10 Lost Video Games That Were Discovered Years Later
9. Lobo
If you're a more casual fan of DC comic book characters, you might be at least aware of Lobo thanks to his appearance as a DLC fighter in Injustice: Gods Among Us. However, if it wasn't for its ultimate cancellation, this wouldn't have been Lobo's first video game brawler.
After Lobo's unexpected growth in popularity in the 90s, Ocean Software picked up the license and put a team to work on constructing a fighting game starring the violent alien and a series of his enemies.
Lobo was undoubtedly inspired by Killer Instinct's pre-rendered graphics and the success of Mortal Kombat, as each character had a violent finishing move, as described in a few gaming magazines at the time. However, despite the marketing starting up, the game never released.
There was talk of prototype Lobo cartridges existing in collectors forums for years but it took over a decade for ROMs of both the Mega Drive and SNES versions of the game to appear online in 2008 and 2009. The quality of these is surprisingly high, making its untimely cancellation sting for fans of the genre and the character.
It remains the only official Lobo video game to this day, even in it's unofficially released state.