10 Video Games That Broke The Rules
2. Not Getting The Rights To Make Your Game - Liquid Kids (Commodore Amiga)
Taito's adorable platformer centres around a heroic platypus (erroneously referred to as a hippo), who must use an endless supply of water balloons to save the land of Woody Lake.
Okay, the plot isn't exactly Shakespeare, but Liquid Kids was a lot of fun. Too bad most gamers never got the chance to experience it, since its initial release was extremely limited.
Although Liquid Kids could've been available on the Commodore Amiga, it hit a major snag. The game was considered a pseudo-sequel to The New Zealand Story, which was ported by Ocean Software. When Liquid Kids was being ported from the arcade, Ocean had their French subsidiary work on the Amiga version.
There was just one issue. In the ten months it took to port Liquid Kids, none of the developers double-checked if they had the rights for the Taito title. This means Ocean France spent almost a year making a game, despite the fact nobody okayed the deal.
Even though Liquid Kids has been released on multiple systems since, including the PS4 and the Switch, it never saw the light of day on the Amiga.