courtesy of YouTube/Hidden PalaceFilm & TVNewsA prototype Akira video game has been uncoveredThe Sega game was lost for more than 25 yearsShareLink copied ✔️December 27, 2019Film & TVNewsTextThom 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 MOREDazed Club is hosting a free screening of BugoniaThe Voice of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian drama moving audiences to tears080 Barcelona Fashion080 Barcelona Fashion Week, these were your best momentsMeet the 2025 winners of the BFI & Chanel Filmmaker AwardsOobah Butler’s guide to getting rich quick InstagramHow to stay authentic online, according to Instagram Rings creatorsRed Scare revisited: 5 radical films that Hollywood tried to banPlainclothes is a tough but tender psychosexual thrillerCillian Murphy and Little Simz on their ‘provoking’ new film, Steve‘It’s like a drug, the adrenaline’: Julia Fox’s 6 favourite horror filmsHow Benny Safdie rewrote the rules of the sports biopic Harris Dickinson’s Urchin is a magnetic study of life on the margins