Unseen 64

Hello 8th-Circuiters, E3 2009 has come and gone and wow was it an exciting one. But remember back at E3 '97 when that awesome looking game that was coming all of a sudden just got lost in existence? Well here is a site you might want to take good look at just to find that once awesome game and its called Unseen 64!

Unseen 64 "looks like a a usual gaming blog, but Unseen 64 is a big archive for canceled, beta and unseen video games"- says the head of Unseen 64 Luka (monokoma). Started in 1999 in Italy by " me and some other Italian geeks obsessed with the Nintendo 64". Unseen 64 began as a dedicated Perfect Dark fansite. But what was really interesting to visitors was the Unseen section of their site "At the end of 2003, we closed down the Perfect Dark website, but as we still got many visitors interested in the Unseen 64 section, we decided to create a website dedicated to "Unseen Section". With its active 20 to 30 members on their forums they also pitch in to this prestigious website in video games along with  "4 ot 5 guys that do researches and write content in their free time, one guy for the site technical design, one that organize the server and the ads. 

We also have many lovely contributors that send us emails for the Unseen in video games. Speaking of beta the guys at Unseen have been promoting two restoration projects one being a beta Zelda 64 project and a Super Mario World Beta Hack "Essentially they are edited versions of the final games that are “hacked” to recreate those removed places and characters that we originally seen in their early screenshots" explains Luka. This 26 year old has been playing games since he was 7 years old on the NES "at his friends houses. We loved to play Zelda or North & South instead to make our homework for Elementary School." Playing video games is always more fun than Homework.

With that being said, I think him and his team are behind one of the best ideas in video game history but when I asked (see the whole questionnaire on my blog) "What do you see for the sites future?" he responded "With the current economic crisis many software house are closing down and that means even more can celled games that should be preserved in the U64 archive. It’s not easy to keep up with all these updates and to contact so many people, so probably we’ll have to find some serious help in the next few years if we want to continue to archive all those new unseen games." With a statement like that the team needs your help in keeping this memorabilia of past and present in video games alive...

Check out their site for updates on Beta and unreleased content on www.Unseen64.net