The project was led by Joe Kaminkow of Data East Pinball and featured a story written by Bob Gale, who was also the screenwriter behind Back to the Future. The general ethos of the game seemed to be “like Mortal Kombat cranked to 11,” and it advertised both in-game (via an attract mode screen) and to game publications of the time that it would feature “ 2,196 finishing moves.” The game took inspiration from Mortal Kombat II in many ways, from its digitized-actor art style to its control scheme, sound design, and emphasis on violence. Tattoo Assassins is an unreleased arcade fighting game that was developed by the pinball division of Data East in 19 with the intent of competing with the increasingly popular Mortal Kombat series. “I dared to make it so that the (Alpha Denshi) president would give up (this project).” Alpha Denshi Fighting Read more If you know something else about this cancelled game, please let us know! It seems Alpha Denshi was planning a 3D “World Heroes 64” for the Hyper Neo Geo 64, but after some time it became clear the HNG64 would have not been able to compete with the more powerful Capcom, Namco and Sega 3D arcade boards so the project was canned.Īs far as we know this “World Heroes 64” was never officially announced by the company, but it seems Japanese Neo Geo fans were able to get in contact with a former Alpha Denshi developer (?) who shared an early 3D model of Hanzo that he made for the game. In 1997 SNK released the Hyper Neo Geo 64 arcade system as the successor of the MVS, a new 3D arcade board to play such games as Road’s Edge, Samurai Shodown 64 and Buriki One.

World Heroes is a cult-classic series of fighting games developed by Alpha Denshi ( ADK) and released in the early / mid ‘90s for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet.

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