This Cancelled N64 Title Is Giving Us Serious ‘Akira’ Vibes

…mixed with a dash of ‘Tron’ for good measure.

One of the great tragedies of all time is that Akira – one of the most influential anime and manga series – has never received a decent video game adaptation. Sure, people have tried, but the resultant efforts always seemed to fall short of the greatness of Katsuhiro Otomo’s masterpiece.

It turns out we almost had the next best thing in 1996 – an N64 game that borrowed heavily from Akira’s aesthetic without actually being an official game. OutSider was never officially announced at the time, but one of the developers behind it has released images on Twitter.

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