List of cancelled Super NES games

The list of cancelled Super NES and Super Famicom games has those which had been announced and then cancelled or postponed indefinitely by developers or publishers. The original market timeframe of the Super NES and Super Famicom was the early 1990s.

Cancelled Super NES and Super Famicom games
Title(s) Cancellation date Developer Publisher
Action 52 1993[1] Active Enterprises Active Enterprises
Albert Odyssey Gaiden 1994-1995 Sunsoft
Akira 1993[2] Black Pearl Software THQ
Airborne Ranger (sequel/remake) Microprose
Baby's Day Out 1994 Designer Software Hi-Tech Expressions
Batman Software Creations
Batman: Revenge of the Joker 1995[3] Sunsoft Sunsoft
Beastball 1993[4] Spectrum Holobyte Millennium Interactive
Blaster Master 2 1992[5][6] Sunsoft
Bobby's World 1994[4] Riedel Software Productions Hi Tech Entertainment
Boo! 1995[4] MicroProse MicroProse
Brimstone 1994[7] Teknocrest Taito
Cluster Buster 1993[8] Rage Software
Christopher Columbus (aka Xpoferens Columbus) 1992 / 1993[9] Misawa Entertainment
Congo Secret of Zinj August 1995[4] Visual Concepts Viacom New Media
Dragon's Heaven late 95'[10] Digitalware Data East
Dorque & Imp 1994[4] Norse Software
Fang of Alnam (Alnam no Kiba: Shouzoku Juunishin-to Densetsu) 1996[11][12] Right Stuff
Felicia 1995 Tonkin House
Firearm 1994[4] Malibu Interactive Malibu Interactive
Fireteam Rogue 1994[4] Accolade Accolade
Future Zone 1993[13][14] Electro Brain
Gaishin Senki: Millennium Sword 1995[15] Magifact
Golden Empire 1993[16] Culture Brain Culture Brain
Jelly Boy 2 1991[4] Game Freak Sony Imagesoft
Joe VS. The Wall 1992[17][18] Ocean Software Ocean
Kaboom: The Mad Bomber Returns (also known as Kaboom! 2) 1993-1994[19] High Voltage Software Activision
Kid Kirby 1995[20] DMA Design Nintendo
Killer Instinct 2 1996[21] Rare Midway Games
Les trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) Loriciel
Lobo 1996[4] Ocean Ocean
Venom Spirit 1994 Software Creations (Pickford brothers)
Ochanoma Densetsu mid-1992 or early 1993[22] Information Global Service
Aa! Megami-sama late 1990s-mid 2000s[23] KSS
Metamor Kid Goomin (Goromin) BPS (Bullet Proof Software)
Mer Wars 1990[24] Synergistic
Molotov Man 1994[25] Sensible Software
Monster Truck Wars 1994 Acclaim
Mr. Bloopy 1995[4] Rare Compedia
Mr. Tuff 1995[4] Sales Curve Ocean
Mumu Boukenki Amusing Dream Takara Amusement
My Neighbor Totoro 1992[26] Tokuma Shoten
Nandemo!? Taihoman 1995[27] Namco Namco
PoPoLoCrois 1996[28]
Popil 1991[29] Sunsoft
Punky Skunk (Cooly Skunk) unknown[30][31][32] Visit Jaleco
Prime 1994[4] Malibu Interactive Malibu Interactive
Project Dream / Dream: Land of Giants 1996 Rareware [33]
Quik the Thunder Rabbit 1995[4] Stywox Titus Interactive
Rayman 1995[34][35][36] Ubisoft
Radio Flyer 1992[37] Ocean
Resident Evil 1994[38][39][40][41] Capcom Nintendo (possible)
Robosaurus 1992 Adrenalin Entertainment THQ
Reactor 1991[42] Argonaut Software
Satellite Man 1993[43] T&E Soft BPS
Super Shantae 1994[44][45] WayForward N/A
Shadow Stalker 1993 Athena
The Shadow 1994[4] Ocean Ocean
Shadowhawk 1994[4] Studio e Studio e
Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill 1994[4] Realtime Associates Kaneko USA
Spellcraft 1994[4] Ybarra Productions Asciiware
Steven Seagal Is The Final Option 1994[4] Riedel Software Productions TecMagik
Super Battletoads 1994[46] Rare Inc. Tradewest
Super Shadow of the Beast 1993[47] Psygnosis IGS Inc.
Street Dunk Nippon Bussan
Thunder in Paradise 1994[48] Software Toolworks
T-MEK 1995 Eastridge Technology Time Warner Interactive
Transformers 1994[49] Argonaut Games Takara
Yoshitsune Densetsu 1993[50] ASCII
Wrestlerage 1991[51] Rareware

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