The PlayStation Museum continues its not-to-be-missed monthly feature on cancelled PS1 games with a look at Capcom's unreleased Iron Man Football -- a perfect warm-up to this weekend's Super Bowl XLIV festivities, though it's unlikely you'll find the Saints or Colts in this game's selection of teams.
To provide some insight on the game, PSM brought in a couple ex-Capcom employees who worked on the project. Here, a former producer describes what the team planned during the two months of development before the company canned Iron Man Football, as well as why the game was terminated:
"We had to do Iron Man Football because Capcom was unable to obtain an NFL license. Iron Man was going to be old time football with all the real old plays, one of our guys went to the football hall of fame and copied all the plays, like razzle dazzle and statue of liberty…Why it was cancelled? One contributing reason was Bernie Stolar, the VP of 3rd Party Relations at SCEA, did not approve the title because there were too many football games already in the queue. Please also note, what you see is two months of work, we could have finished the game by September for Christmas of 96 for sure."
You can read the full retrospective at PSM. If you haven't seen the site's other recent postmortems of unreleased PS1 games, here are a couple links to help you catch up on Quintessential Art of Destruction and Pac-Man Ghost Zone.
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