This is an old-school example, but R-Type, strangely, never came to the NES. It was one of the most popular shmups of the era. Big hit in the arcade in 1986-7. Ported to the Master System, PC-Engine, C64, Speccy, Amstrad, Amiga, Atari ST, Game Boy, MSX, PC-88, and X68000. But bizarrely, no NES. There was a later bootleg NES version made in China, but why wasn't there an official port? Just baffling.
Another really old example would be Donkey Kong Jr., which never came to the C64, despite it being released on everything else and the C64 getting virtually every other arcade game imaginable from that era. C64 got Donkey Kong, Mario Bros. and Popeye, but not DK Jr. There's probably been homebrews by now though.
An example from the 7th generation would be MGS4, which might be the last major third-party-published game released for Playstation but not Xbox.
What are some other games that inexplicably never went to a particular platform? Let's leave really recent games out of this, i.e., games that could conceivably still be ported, as this thread should be distanced from port-begging. This thread is, rather, about looking at releases that had every reason to happen, but never did.
Another really old example would be Donkey Kong Jr., which never came to the C64, despite it being released on everything else and the C64 getting virtually every other arcade game imaginable from that era. C64 got Donkey Kong, Mario Bros. and Popeye, but not DK Jr. There's probably been homebrews by now though.
An example from the 7th generation would be MGS4, which might be the last major third-party-published game released for Playstation but not Xbox.
What are some other games that inexplicably never went to a particular platform? Let's leave really recent games out of this, i.e., games that could conceivably still be ported, as this thread should be distanced from port-begging. This thread is, rather, about looking at releases that had every reason to happen, but never did.
