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|title=<center>Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (NES port)</center>
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|image=Thomas the tank engine nes.png
|imagecaption=The game's box art.
|imagecaption=The game's box art.
|status=<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
|status=<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
|datefound=March 26, 2007
|datefound=26 Mar 2007
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===NES Port===
===NES Port===
'''An NES port was also developed and complete but was cancelled for unknown reasons'''.<ref>[https://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/12/thomas-the-tank-engine-nes-unreleased/ Unseen64 article on the game's NES port.] Retrieved 13 Dec '21</ref> The port is similar to the other releases with a lack of speech and a new 8-bit soundtrack. The game wasn't rediscovered until a prototype was found in 2007 and uploaded on Lost Levels by the member kap.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121011074742/http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?t=1336 Archived page of the forum thread about the ROM release.] Retrieved 24 Sept '23</ref>
'''An NES port was also developed and complete but was cancelled for unknown reasons'''.<ref>[https://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/12/thomas-the-tank-engine-nes-unreleased/ Unseen64 article on the game's NES port.] Retrieved 13 Dec '21</ref> The port is similar to the other releases with a lack of speech and a new 8-bit soundtrack. The game wasn't rediscovered until a prototype was found in 2007 and uploaded onto the Lost Levels website by one of their members kap.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121011074742/http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?t=1336 Archived page of the forum thread about the ROM release.] Retrieved 24 Sep '23</ref>


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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==See Also==
==See Also==
===Thomas & Friends===
===Thomas & Friends===
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Latest revision as of 19:19, 15 January 2024

Thomas the tank engine nes.png

The game's box art.

Status: Found

Date found: 26 Mar 2007

Found by: kap

Thomas the Tank Engine is a popular British franchise starring the fictional steam locomotive Thomas, the series is based on The Railway Series of books with a TV series of the same name (later titled Thomas & Friends) that aired new episodes from October 9th, 1984 to January 20th, 2021 and a reboot that premiered later in 2021.

Game Tie-in

From 1990-1993 a tie-in game titled Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends was developed by Peakstar Software and published by THQ that released on multiple platforms, most notably on the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. The game had the player control Thomas around the Island of Sodor to help with various tasks like delivering medical supplies to the hospital, solving various puzzles and racing other engines' friends.

NES Port

An NES port was also developed and complete but was cancelled for unknown reasons.[1] The port is similar to the other releases with a lack of speech and a new 8-bit soundtrack. The game wasn't rediscovered until a prototype was found in 2007 and uploaded onto the Lost Levels website by one of their members kap.[2]

Gallery

Screenshots

Footage

A complete walkthrough of the game.

See Also

Thomas & Friends

Thomas the Tank Engine

Other

External Links

References