Atmosfear

Atmosfear, or Nightmare as it was originally called is a platformer developed by Beam Software and intended to be published by Activision in 1993. Atmosfear is based on a board game of the same name. I've never played the board game, so I don't know how loyal it is to it's source material. Atmosfear was first mentioned in a Nintendo Power issue where it simply stated that there was going to be a video game adaptation of the board game. And that's all that the game was mentioned. Until a ROM surfaced which showed that the game got finished, which makes it strange as to why Activision never promoted the game more. As for the game itself, it's actually half-decent. The graphics are really good, and the level design is smart. The only downsides are that your main character plays a bit too floaty and the enemy design is very generic. It's a shame that the game was never released, but at least we can play it nowadays.