In our industry, if a project ends up taking too much time or money, it’s likely that it will end up getting canceled before it sees the light of day. We lose a lot of good potential games that way. In fact, some of our most well-known games came so very close to being canceled, and yet were pulled back from the brink of doom due to fans, hardworking teams, or serendipitous accidents. These are the stories of those games that just wouldn’t die, and how they went on to influence gaming in the future.