Lost Genesis/Mega-Drive RTS from Sega Technical Institute, Dark Empires, recovered and preserved
Another unreleased Genesis game long thought lost has now been found and preserved thanks to The Hidden Palace.
Dark Empires, which was being worked on alongside Kid Chameleon at Sega Technical Institute in 1990, got cancelled in order to get the studio to work on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 instead, as we had learned thanks to The Video Game History Foundation back in 2023. While Kid Chameleon made it to store shelves, Dark Empires wasn’t far enough along to get in the hands of Genesis/Mega-Drive owners everywhere. Thankfully, former STI artist Craig Stitt had found a pre-release copy of Dark Empires among his personal archives and shared it with Hidden Palace.
Interested in learning more? You can see more after the break, including the link to download the prototype.