courtesy of YouTube/Hidden PalaceFilm & TVNewsFilm & TV / NewsA prototype Akira video game has been uncoveredThe Sega game was lost for more than 25 yearsShareLink copied ✔️December 27, 2019December 27, 2019TextThom Waite Taika Waititi’s live-action Akira adaptation doesn’t seem to be due anytime soon, after hitting production delays, but to tide us over while we wait a prototype of an early Akira video game has been discovered. Akira games were originally due to be published on various platforms in 1995, but were never finished, and it’s only now that a prototype of one of them, for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, has surfaced, uploaded online by the video game preservation community Hidden Palace. Unsurprisingly, the game isn’t in full working order (or was simply never completed). This means that it can’t be played all the way through, but individual stages can be selected, Screen Rant reports. These stages involve gameplay influenced by a variety of other games, including Doom (the section where Tetsuo escapes the hospital) and the 1991 motorcycle racing game Road Rash (self-explanatory). Watch a full playthrough below, via Hidden Palace’s YouTube channel. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREAnimalia: An eerie feminist sci-fi about aliens invading MoroccoThe 20 best films of 2025, rankedSalomon SportstyleLord Apex brings together community for 20 years of Salomon’s ACS PROWhy Kahlil Joseph’s debut feature film is a must-seeJay Kelly is Noah Baumbach’s surreal, star-studded take on fameWatch: Owen Cooper on Adolescence, Jake Gyllenhaal and Wuthering HeightsOwen Cooper: Adolescent extremesIt Was Just An Accident: A banned filmmaker’s most dangerous work yetChase Infiniti: One breakthrough after anotherShih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker’s film about a struggling family in TaiwanWatch: Rachel Sennott on her Saturn return, turning 30, and I Love LA Mapping Rachel Sennott’s chaotic digital footprint