Color Dreams had planned a super cart. This "super cart" could be used to give an 8-bit game 16-bit graphics. Rumor had it that this cart was hooked up with the mysterious port on the bottom of the NES, but these rumors would live for a long time until finally proven wrong. Color Dreams used this super cart technology to produce two games, Koala Chase, which was used to try out this technology, and Hellraiser, which was the game Color Dreams planned on marketing. This game of course never came out. I do find it interesting that all these unlicensed companies have big plans for neato acessories that never make it. I'd better not head down that track for that is a different story all together. Hellraiser was scrapped for many a reasons. Manufacturing the super cart would have been expensive. The cart would have probably costed buyers around $80 US and I am sure many wouldn't pay that much for an unlicensed Nintendo cart. Anyone remember Action 52? There was another reason why Hellraiser wasn't released too. Hellraiser was supposed to be gory and gory games don't do well with the NES. Parents probably wouldn't be too happy when there children would play Hellraiser. It still would have been interesting. Maybe a Nintendo version of Hellraiser never got complete, but maybe it did too. Color Dreams had also planned a Hellraiser game for the PC. I think that there was a demo of it up and running and it would have been released yet by that time, Doom was out. Doom would have made Hellraiser look bad. The dudes at Color Dreams did start making the labels for the Hellraider carts though--I would LOVE to get a hold of one of them. Too bad they were lost again shortly after they were found. Roger Deforest worked on some of the graphics for the PC HellRaiser and he sent them in to me. He did the title screen and a few of the badguys. They all look very impressive.   
  
I heard rumors about this--though I doubt it is true--unless it is a hack--and not a Color Dreams game. I've been told that Color Dreams never actually got very far in the development of a Hellraiser game and that whatever I had was some sort of hack pirate thing. It wasn't a playable game- just walking down a corridor. This is refering to what a dude I know had, which he said was a version of Hellraiser for NES. As I said, I think it was not the Color Dreams game, but I thought it would be appropriate to add it here anyway.
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