Changes: Fido Dido (Unreleased 1993 SNES/Sega Genesis Game)

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Fido Dido is an unreleased 1993 video game that was developed by Teeny Weeny Games and was set to be published by Kaneko USA in 1993. Kaneko had planned to release video games based on Fido Dido (the mascot for 7-Up) and Socks the Cat but they only released two license games under the Chester Cheetah license. A SNES version was going to be completely different game than the Genesis version. The title was shown at a Summer 1993 CES in Chicago by Kaneko along with Chester Cheetah and Socks the Cat.

Although the game was fully developed and featured in ads and game expositions, its release was cancelled due to Fido Dido being replaced by Cool Spot and the publisher's US arm closing down and subsequently cancelling other games such as The Soda Kids[1] but according to a review in the Easter 1994 issue of Sega Pro Magazine, Fido Dido was said to be "out now".

For years, it went unresurfaced until the Sega Genesis port was found and dumped online, and all that has resurfaced of the SNES port were screenshots and a box art of it.

UPDATE 5/25/2015: A few ROM sceeenshots from the SNES version were leaked by the developer of the version in Twitter on last year. The developer said that this version is based on comics, not 7-Up. It was pretty much complete but they have no intention on making it public. This is thinks to the user badinsults, aka Evan Gowan on Nintendoage.com for founding this https://twitter.com/IamXERO/status/465921424189054976 https://twitter.com/IamXERO/status/465932362367664129/photo/1 https://twitter.com/IamXERO/status/465924466019934208/photo/1

UPDATE 5/26/2015: Someone by the name of "ElVicioGamer" asked the developer on Twitter if he could release the game, it looks like the developer has some intentions on releasing the game in the future.

https://twitter.com/ElVicioGamer/status/603259783643279362

UPDATE 2/18/2016: A 5 minutes gameplay footage of the SNES version had been uploaded on YouTube.

Fido Dido gameplay 1

References

http://www.snescentral.com/article.php?id=0920 The game's small development history on SNES Central.

http://segaretro.org/Fido_Dido Sega Retro article.

http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=145131 NintendoAge.com forum thread.

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-'''''Fido Dido''''' is an unreleased 1993 video game that was developed by Teeny Weeny Games and was set to be published by Kaneko USA in 1993. Kaneko had planned to release video games based on ''Fido Dido'' (the mascot for 7-Up) and ''[[Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill (Unreleased 1993 Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis Game)|Socks the Cat]]'' but they only released two games under the Chester Cheetah license. A SNES version was going to be completely different game than the Genesis version. The title was shown at a June 1993 CES in Chicago by Kaneko along with ''Chester Cheetah'' and ''Socks the Cat''.
+'''''Fido Dido''''' is an unreleased 1993 video game that was developed by Teeny Weeny Games and was set to be published by Kaneko USA in 1993. Kaneko had planned to release video games based on ''Fido Dido'' (the mascot for 7-Up) and ''[[Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill (Unreleased 1993 Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis Game)|Socks the Cat]]'' but they only released two license games under the Chester Cheetah license. A SNES version was going to be completely different game than the Genesis version. The title was shown at a Summer 1993 CES in Chicago by Kaneko along with ''Chester Cheetah'' and ''Socks the Cat''.
-Although the game was fully developed and featured in ads and game expositions, its release was cancelled due to the publisher's US arm closing down and subsequently cancelling other games such as ''The Soda Kids'' but according to a review in the Easter 1994 issue of Sega Pro Magazine, ''Fido Dido'' was said to be "out now".
+Although the game was fully developed and featured in ads and game expositions, its release was cancelled due to Fido Dido being replaced by Cool Spot and the publisher's US arm closing down and subsequently cancelling other games such as ''The Soda Kids''[http://www.trademarkia.com/the-soda-kids-74462522.html] but according to a review in the Easter 1994 issue of Sega Pro Magazine, ''Fido Dido'' was said to be "out now".
+For years, it went unresurfaced until the Sega Genesis port was found and dumped online, and all that has resurfaced of the SNES port were screenshots and a box art of it.
-'''UPDATE 5/25/2015:''' A few ROM sceeenshots from the SNES version were leaked by the developer of the version in Twitter on last year. The developer said that this version is based on comics, not 7-Up. It was pretty much complete. They have no intention on making it public. https://twitter.com/IamXERO/status/465921424189054976 https://twitter.com/IamXERO/status/465932362367664129/photo/1 https://twitter.com/IamXERO/status/465924466019934208/photo/1
+'''UPDATE 5/25/2015:''' A few ROM sceeenshots from the SNES version were leaked by the developer of the version in Twitter on last year. The developer said that this version is based on comics, not 7-Up. It was pretty much complete but they have no intention on making it public. This is thinks to the user badinsults, aka Evan Gowan on Nintendoage.com for founding this https://twitter.com/IamXERO/status/465921424189054976 https://twitter.com/IamXERO/status/465932362367664129/photo/1 https://twitter.com/IamXERO/status/465924466019934208/photo/1
+'''UPDATE 5/26/2015: '''Someone by the name of "ElVicioGamer" asked the developer on Twitter if he could release the game, it looks like the developer has some intentions on releasing the game in the future.
+https://twitter.com/ElVicioGamer/status/603259783643279362
+'''UPDATE 2/18/2016:''' A 5 minutes gameplay footage of the SNES version had been uploaded on YouTube.
 <gallery>
 FidoDido MD US PrintAdvert.jpg|A advertisement for the game.
-playthings_article.jpg
+playthings_article.jpg|Early box art of the SNES version.
 fidodido6yf.jpg
 BndJEMOCQAAb7Uv_large.png|Screenshot of the SNES version #1.
 BndTAm4CQAAQI9g.png|Screenshot of the SNES version #2.
 BndL1F3CAAAetjX.png|Screenshot of the SNES version #3.
+Fido Dido Genesis Sega Visions Issue 17.png|A Sega Visions Issue 17 review of the Genesis version of the game.
+Fido Dido Genesis Early Box Art Mean Machines Sega Issue 10.png|Advertisement of the Genesis version (including the early box art) in Mean Machines Sega Issue 10.
+Fido Dido gameplay 1|Gameplay of the SNES version.
 </gallery>
-For years, it went unresurfaced until the Sega Genesis port was found and dumped online, and all that has resurfaced of the SNES port were screenshots and a box art of it.
 ==References==
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 http://segaretro.org/Fido_Dido Sega Retro article.
+http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=145131 NintendoAge.com forum thread.
 [[Category:Lost Video Games]]
+[[Category:Partially Found Media]]