The canceled Nintendo 64 Tomb Raider knockoff has been saved so you can emulate it now

In the late 1990s, following the success of Tomb Raider and Perfect Dark, a developer called Bits Studios created a piece of the pie called “a third-person action puzzle game starring an attractive polygonal woman.” I set out to open up the. Nintendo was gearing up to release this game, called Riqa, and even showed it off at his E3 in 1999. However, it never made it past the prototype stage and was canceled after several postponements.

One of the designers, Ten Shu, who had previously released a ROM for the studio’s other unfinished game, Die Hard 64, recorded Riqa on YouTube with a series of videos showing various builds. did. In most of them, the protagonist runs around in camo pants, dodging lasers, climbing ladders, sometimes shooting guys in a very “Tomb Raider, but a bit anime-y” way, and at one point using obsolete mechs. It may even overtake the.