Tomb Raider 3do Instant

Think about that. For decades, lost games like Star Fox 2 or SimCity NES have been rescued from old dev carts. But Tomb Raider on 3DO remains a complete phantom. There are no leaked QA discs. No grainy magazine screenshots beyond the standard promotional art. No "Build from August 12th" floating around a Russian forum.

But the official reason?

By the spring of 1997, Eidos Interactive officially canceled the 3DO version. It was simply too late. The Saturn version sold poorly enough; a 3DO version would have been financial suicide. To this day, no ROM, no beta, no prototype of the 3DO version of Tomb Raider has ever surfaced. tomb raider 3do

Somewhere, on a dusty dev kit in a forgotten storage unit, a low-poly Lara is still waiting to jump over that first chasm. Think about that