After 22 years, the 'most-delayed game in history' steals Duke Nukem Forever's crown by finally releasing on the GBA
If you count a cancelation as a delay
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A Game Boy Advance action game 20 years in the making has finally come out and it might have just snatched the record for the most-delayed release of all time.
You’ve probably never heard of GBA’s Kien - because it actually never released. In 2002, an Italian game studio had to shelve its fantasy side-scrolling action game about a warrior and a priestess because its publisher decided that spending more money on costly cartridges was too much of a risk. “The amount of capital required just to print the initial copies was daunting, especially since the chances of commercial success were low, based on industry trends at the time,” original game designer Fabio Belsanti said in an interview withThe Guardian.
Depending on your criteria (does cancelation count as a delay?), Kien’s 22-year-long development snatches the crown from the …
