This week's games are Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels and Sin & Punishment. The first game eventually found its way to the US as part of that Super Mario All-Stars collection that came out on the SNES, but it's the game that the Japanese know as Super Mario Bros. 2. It's pretty tough. Sin & Punishment is a late-model N64 shooter that has things in common with games like Space Harrier and Panzer Dragoon. I have fond memories of it due to getting the import, but it never received a US release. It's totally awesome that we're finally seeing games that didn't come out in this country and I hope we see more of it.

Actually, now that S&P is out, I'm hoping that we'll start seeing games that were never actually released at all. At the last SpaceWorld convention, Nintendo showed an underwater tank game for the N64 called Echo Delta. I didn't get to spend much time with it, but it certainly seemed rad. It was scheduled to be released and the game looked mostly complete... but it got canned. It'd be super rad if Nintendo dug up the game, did whatever it needed to be fully finished, and released it.