10 Lost Video Games That Were Discovered Years Later
6. Steven Seagal is The Final Option
Michael Jackson had Moonwalker, Shaq had Shaq-Fu and Steven Seagal nearly had The Final Option.
In the mid-90s TecMagik, rather than get a license to any of Seagal's films, decided to craft a brand new side-scrolling beat-em-up adventure for the direct-to-video star. However, Seagal's involvement with the game was minimal, essentially boiling down to selling his likeness. The rotoscoped character the player took control of was just a lookalike.
Despite this, Steve Wik who worked on the game (and went on to develop for the Postal series) said in an interview with Nintendo Player that the company ran out of money which led to the game's cancellation. TecMagik meanwhile announced that the The Final Option was scrapped in favour of a different Seagal game for PlayStation and N64, which unsurprisingly never came to be.
Regardless, a prototype version of The Final Option got into the hands of an editor at Tips & Tricks Magazine, making its way through several eBay auctions until it found a preservationist. The game - originally scheduled for a 1994 release - became publicly accessible in 2013, becoming another weird footnote in the career of a severely weird actor.