Metal Lancer

date : 18-unreleased
licensing : licensed
state : cancelled
by : Sega(developer), Sega (publisher)
In 2016, Yuji Naka recounted in an interview that prior to creating the first Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), he had been working on a title called Metal Lancer. Outside of a passing mention in Japanese magazine Mega Drive Fan, the game went unannounced until the 2016 interview, where footage was later shown to the interviewer. The game involved girls fighting with robots, and was developed as a showcase to demonstrate the Sega Genesis's technical abilities of screen rotation and zooming in/out. Naka scrapped the game halfway through development, unhappy with its progress, in favor of working on Sonic the Hedgehog.[171]