They discover a prototype of a 30-year-old NES game that was never announced

A UCW game has been discovered after 30 years. The game was never advertised anywhere and is incomplete. The user who has discovered it hopes to make his ROM public.

Digital preservation efforts to conserve all video games and additional materials in an accessible way usually give us many surprises. A few months ago he recovered the NES version of SimCity that never saw the light when it passed its development to the Super Nintendo. Today a thirty-year-old pressing catch game was discovered that was never announced.

A game that has taken 30 years to discover

YouTuber Stephan Reese recently purchased a prototype cartridge for an NES game belonging to a former Nintendo employee. Its name is UWC and it never appeared in magazines, with which its existence has been made public practically today. The name comes from Universal Wrestling Corporation, the temporary name of the World Championship Wrestling company when it was being bought by Ted Turner in 1988.

The game is developed by the defunct SETA company and dates from 1989. Everything indicates that it was going to be a video game made to rival those of the WWF, today known as WWE. In the game are Ric Flair, Road Warrior Hawk, Road Warrior Animal, Bobby Eaton, and Sting, among others. The worker who had the cartridge commented that they gave it to him to test it for being a fan of pressing catch. But the NES game did not go ahead and he kept that copy.

For the most curious, the Youtuber will try to publish the ROM as soon as possible so that everyone who has an NES emulator or wants to put it in a reproduction cartridge can play it. It's an interesting story that shows us the need for digital conservatives, thanks to which we have a new NES game that we didn't know existed.

Source: Kotaku