Tectoy cancelled 7 SMS games in 1997

[wolfticket]

After looking through some old official Brazilian Sega Club magazines recently, I noticed in the ‘coming soon’ section of issue 22 it advertises Power Rangers on the Sega Master System.


I contacted Maicon Barbosa who worked on the recent Tectoy relaunch of the Mega Drive in Brazil and with his help he contacted Marcelo Caiado who was the software engineer for Tectoy in the 90s and along with Mauricio Guerta did all the hacks and Game Gear ports to the SMS.

Turns out that not only did Power Rangers get cancelled in 1997, but at least 6 other games did as well! This was due to Tectoy running out of money and unable to pay for the copyrights and eventually filing for bankruptcy.

The 7 cancelled games were:

Power Rangers: The Movie
Toe Jam & Earl
Beavis & Butthead
Urban Strike
Home Alone (Never got a Brazilian release)
Halley Wars (This was released as Space Battle on the Game Gear)
Fantasy Zone 1 (Never got a Brazilian release)

Unfortunately most of the prototypes for these games have been lost



Left to right: Alexandre Pagano - Designer for Tectoy in the 90s, Marcelo Caiado - Software Engineer for Tectoy in the 90s and Maicon Barbosa at the 30th anniversary of the partnership between Sega and Tectoy last year, and the relaunch of the Mega Drive 1 in Brazil

[retrokevretro]

Great post Wolfticket! You never know though, these prototypes may turn up one day as people are becoming much more aware of the importance / value of anything retro gaming related.

[wolfticket]

Aug 10, 2018 7:33:09 GMT retrokevretro said:

Great post Wolfticket! You never know though, these prototypes may turn up one day as people are becoming much more aware of the importance / value of anything retro gaming related.

Hopefully they do! 👍
He also said there were other games that were cancelled, around 10 altogether. He will try to remember the others and let us know

[Transatlantic Foe]

Urban Strike did get a GG release, so this probably would have been a conversion of that rather than a native SMS port. Shame neither it nor Jungle Strike got an SMS port though, given how good a job was done on Desert Strike.

[rupert]

Ah, great info. I speak to him too via Instagram, however never really got on to this topic.

[ian]

Very cool information. It would be great if protos or source codes for these games turned up one day. Do let us know if you find out any more!

Aug 10, 2018 16:39:45 GMT Transatlantic Foe said:

Urban Strike did get a GG release, so this probably would have been a conversion of that rather than a native SMS port. Shame neither it nor Jungle Strike got an SMS port though, given how good a job was done on Desert Strike.

Indeed Desert Strike was very well done but I'm not sure how good TecToy efforts for Jungle or Urban would have been though!

[flatapex]

Some interesting games there and not exactly shabby ones either, if a good job had been done they could have been great ports.

*Curses self for not having knowledge to do gg to ms ports*

[wolfticket]

Aug 10, 2018 22:22:19 GMT rupert said:

Ah, great info. I speak to him too via Instagram, however never really got on to this topic.

Yeah I speak to him quite a lot on Instagram too, bought some Tectoy stuff from him. I also got him to pre order me the new Master System plug and play that was released last week

Aug 13, 2018 21:42:47 GMT ian said:

Very cool information. It would be great if protos or source codes for these games turned up one day. Do let us know if you find out any more!

Any more info I can find I’ll post on here 👍

[asterix]

Very interesting post to read about. It could be nice if someone , could get the license to them and make them 😁

[flatapex]

Aug 15, 2018 5:41:10 GMT asterix said:

Very interesting post to read about. It could be nice if someone , could get the license to them and make them 😁

Only 3 haven't had the gg to SMS port treatment yet to my knowledge

[KnightWarrior]

Someday they will found

[andrebrazil]

The independent games are growing, will soon launch for Master System