It was possibly the closest Konami got in history to publishing a Parodius game in North America. A “deluxe pack” featuring near arcade-perfect ports of the second and third installments to this wacky Japanese shoot-em-up series was translated in English for both the Sega Saturn and Playstation. But in late 1995, promises turned false. This video is a progression through the game’s development and its wildest stories, going from confirmed to canceled in North America.
This is episode 26.5 out of 246 in my quest to document and review every Sega Saturn game commercially released in North America. Old magazine articles, E3 footage from 1995, and Usenet posts from the time chronicle what happened from the game’s first announcement to getting pulled from the western continent.
Parodius is the first canceled game to be included in my series. It did wind up getting released in both Japan and Europe.
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