1993 Renegade
Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System
We all like (good) surprises, and hopefully our next entry into the Games That Weren’t archives will be just that. Back when Enigma Variations were porting Sensible Soccer to the original Game Boy, unbeknown to us all – Mark Greenshields was working on a NES conversion too, using the original Amiga code as reference.
Although the conversion progressed very well after around 6 months of work, Mark reveals they didn’t feel that the conversion was good enough for the market and so work was abruptly stopped. By 1993, the platform was in the very early stages of decline (at least in the UK, even though as AmigaJay points out – it was still very popular), so that may have been a factor for not trying again to convert the title from scratch, but does seem odd. It can’t be recalled, though it is plausible that Renegade decided to drop the conversion completely and just focus on a Game Boy release. Continue reading