Thea Realm Fighters

The game was close to completion before it was cancelled, according to one of the game's programmers. Although never released, various playable prototypes of the game have been showcased at multiple Jaguar-dedicated festivals such as the JagFest 2K1. In 2016 and 2017, several ROMs were leaked online by video game collector Nicolas Persjin.

• Title — Thea Realm Fighters • Developer — High Voltage Software • Publisher — Atari Corporation • Platforms — Atari Jaguar Atari Jaguar CD • Released — Unreleased • Genre — Fighting • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer

• Illustration — Gameplay screenshot from one of the released beta builds. Thea Realm Fighters is a two-dimensional fighting game with digitized characters and graphics, featuring more than twenty-five playable characters, each one with four special moves and two finisher moves, four different gameplay modes with over 30 stages. In the single-player mode, the player has to defeat twelve CPU-controlled opponents and after doing so the player was going to face SurRaider, a powerful warrior from another dimension. The game was going to feature over 25 fighters to play against, including twelve starting fighters, 12 special fighters, various hidden sub-bosses, the final boss and five hidden fighters. Characters known from the available screenshots online and press coverage include:

The game was unveiled during the January WCES 1995, where the game was reported to be unpolished and too early to judge, with spectacular backgrounds and lackluster character animation. Only four characters were available at that time, with only one featuring special moves. The game was also known internally as SurRaider's Galactic Challenge. It was also playable at E3 1995, with several more characters and stages available. In a Slashdot post, a former programmer of the project stated that the game was 90% close to completion, before Atari Corporation cancelled it alongside other upcoming Jaguar projects in 1996. At least four martial artists were known to be involved in the development of the game. There were also other 20 martial artists involved in the game as well. Some of them are: • Ho-Sung Pak, who played Liu Kang and Shang Tsung in the Mortal Kombat series (he also served as technical advisor for the choreography of the game) • Philip Ahn M.D., who previously played Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat II • Katalin Zamiar, who previously played Kitana, Mileena and Jade in Mortal Kombat II • Daniel Pesina, who played Johnny Cage and the ninjas in the Mortal Kombat series