22 Cancelled Fighting Games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ส.ค. 2024
- Checking out 22 cancelled fighting games, for various systems...
Cancelled Games playlist:
• 15 Cancelled Sega Drea...
0:00 Intro
0:26 Primal Rage 2
1:31 Thea Realm Fighters
3:07 Thrill Kill
4:46 AI The Circuit
5:45 Tenth Degree
7:35 The Chainsaw Incident
10:15 Burning Fists
10:54 The Eye of Typhoon
12:22 Justice League
15:22 Killer Instinct 2
15:53 Rise of the Robots
17:00 Fatal Noise
18:17 Capcom Fighting All-Stars
20:28 Global Kumite
21:09 Vicious Circle
22:09 Clayfighter
23:12 Bio Freaks
23:54 Killing Bites
24:38 FX Fighter
25:21 Marvel Chaos
27:28 Sorcery
28:58 Tattoo Assassins
31:18 Outro
Video sources:
Tenth Degree, Vicious Circle - Video Game Esoterica
/ @videogameesoterica
Primal Rage 2 - Gruntzilla94
/ @gruntzilla94
Thea Realm Fighters - bgP
/ @bgp001
A.I. The Circuit, Marvel Chaos - PtoPOnline
/ @ptoponline
The Eye of Typhoon (Tsunami Edition) - ozzy yzzo
/ @ozzyyzzoful
The Eye of Typhoon (DOS) - La Mazmorra Abandon
/ @guardianmisterioso
Justice League - Proto
/ @protostuff
Rise of the Robots - acidonia150
/ @acidonia150
Fatal Noise - Per-Ola Eriksson
/ @per-olaeriksson2589
Bio FREAKS - Ukarcades
/ @ukarcades2015
Sorcery - PlayStation Museum
www.playstationmuseum.com/
Tattoo Assassins - VideoGaming4U
/ @videogaming4u
Tattoo Assassins - Gamescrap
/ @gamescrap
Additional footage - World of Longplays
/ @worldoflongplays
#fightinggames #cancelled #unreleased - เกม
Damn, The Chainsaw Incident actually looked kinda cool, it's sad that it couldn't get a release.
Yeah, love the art style.
Diiiiiid you know?!?!?!? After Thrill Kill's cancellation, it got reskinned and updated to become Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style.
Thanks for covering all these cancelled fighting games, it's crazy how many companies jumped on this genre after SF2 and MK got popular.
I meant to mention that! They used the same engine.
In my country, Thrill Kill was sold everywhere. I had, at the time, no idea the game was cancelled. I would have loved to see Capcom Fighters All-Stars released, as well as the Justice League game. Killer Instinct 2 on the SNES was another sad cancellation. Is great to have a new video from you, and it was a very interesting one, too. Fighting Games are my favorite genre.
Interesting! Were they bootlegs then or did it look legit? I'd love to see Capcom Fighting All-Stars too. Thank you! Glad you enjoyed this one.
@@onaretrotip Oh, they were 100% bootlegs. I've never seen an original black PSX game. Or original Genesis or SNES carts. Only bootlegs in here.
@@GimblyGFR Ah, I see.
Is that you Peter Steele? 😂
(Only joking love the typeO pic)
@@jamesbevan4479 As you can imagine, Type O Negative is my favorite band. All hail the Green Man!
Fun fact: Double Helix's Green Lantern game is what got them brought on to develop Killer Instinct 2013.
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I wanted Capcom fighting all stars back in 2003. It was the dark times of fighting games when a lot of Japanese companies abandoned the genre. Glad it has made a massive comeback
Me too. I was overjoyed when Street Fighter IV came out.
@@onaretrotipand a year later, Tatsunoko vs Capcom
Great video, but you did leave out one detail about Tattoo Assassins - Galloping Ghost Arcade has that one as well, and theirs is the only cabinet with full artwork known to exist.
Ah, cool! Thanks.
I had the pleasure of playing the cabinet of Primal Rage 2 at the Galloping Ghost arcade! It was ridiculously hard, but a hell of a game!
Jealous!
Ingrid from Capcom Fighting All-Stars also appears as a solo unit in Project X Zone 2 on the 3DS.
Fantastic video; really enjoyed this one.
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Ah, nice! I played the demo of the first one, but that was it. Thank you!
I'm still mad Bayonetta was not in Project X Zone 2....thanks to Kamiya (who ironically later on regretted not allowing her in)
Someday in Project X Zone 3?@@budgiecat9039
Great to see another cancelled game video!
Thank you!
Damn chainsaw incident looks like it had some real potential, reminds me a little of darkstalkers
Yeah, love the art style!
Ryu used the fist of wind. The one from the sf3 manga. Now that takes me back.
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that Tattoo assasins thing I think some of the people who modeled in MK1 and 2 tried making that game as a protest over payment disagreements lol
Ah, makes sense!
Wow, thank you so much for making this video! As a fan of fighting games I feel like in heaven but at the same time also sad that the games did not come out. At least some of them were persevered.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching :)
I would like to see you make another video with cancelled fighting games and have FX Fighter (SNES), Force Five, and Kenju.
Thanks! Unlikely there will be a follow-up though I'm afraid.
Thanks for the time and effort to put this together Pete, this was really interesting. I'm surprised Bio Freaks didn't make it to the arcade as if memory serves Midway did push out it's (considerably worse) stablemate WarGods to the arcade. Personally though it would not surprise me if BF had a very small fanbase to bring to bear on playing it in the arcades after it was already out on PS1 as why would you pay money to play a game you had at home, and also the PS1 title is a very Marmite kind of game with an exceedingly steep difficulty curve and brutal AI. I also vaguely remember MK4 didn't fare awfully well either at the time, maybe they were feeling they needed to call time on fighters for a while. It's fascinating they were about to try, as I'm a huge dork for Midway and that's something I never knew was on the cards. Also a shame about Global Kumite, find the GBC and DMG are surprisingly robust systems potentially for fighters, the Takara SNK games especially are really fun games I always come back to. Brilliant vid as always, take care and have a lovely weekend mate!
Thanks for watching! I'm always amazed at the games that get cancelled when so much utter rubbish gets released.
I still got a Thrill Kill Disc. I bought it from a local store. Maybe some pirates or leakers sold it.
Yeah, I think they likely did, as a few people seem to have a disc.
I still pray for the release of Deadly Sport, a game developed alongside the companion MK ripoff, Survival Arts. the full soundtrack got released by the og composer, all we really have is a preview flyer for visuals and some screenshots, there was a board sold on jp auctions long ago, whether it sees the light of day is yet to be seen
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LOOKS LIKE THRILL KILL WAS RECYCLED INTO THE WU TANG SHAOLIN STYLE GAME
Yeah looks that way.
Nice video with lot of interesthing info, thought I'm surprised youd didn't mention the original Garou 2, not the sequel in wich SNK is working now.
Thanks! Quite a few I didn't mention. Usually just pick the most interesting that have the most media to show.
To this day, I have mixed feelings about Primal Rage 2... one part, my childhood self was disappointed it was never released despite the hype behind it where they even sold actual toys of the then-upcoming characters for this new game that was coming out... and the other part disappointed most of the cast was essentially replaced by human "avatars" which killed a lot of the appeal and identity of it being a "fighting game but with dinosaurs and apes".
There's already enough human vs human fighting games as it is and the appeal of using stop-motion/claymation as fighting game characters was also done with Clayfighter and a few select characters in the old Mortal Kombat games.
I'd not mind if there was a reboot of the original game, a remaster, or a spiritual successor of an indie game using the same idea.
Yeah, I have to agree with you there. Bit of a weird direction.
Good video Pete
I thought The Chainsaw Incident looked really cool...Justice League Arcade too👍👍
Thanks, Marcus! Yeah, Chainsaw Incident is gorgeous visually. And Justice League looks really fun, although it's maybe more of a beat em up.
Thank you very much for this video.
You're very welcome :)
Excellent video!
Thank you!!!
Damn, that Justice League game looks AMAZING!
IKR!
From what I remember for Capcom Fighting All Stars was it fucking bombed so hard in location tests in Japan and that was the primary motivating factor towards it's cancellation. The biggest complaints was the gameplay felt stiff and clunky, again, from what I can remember from translations on SRK and MMCafe forums. I remember seeing gameplay videos on Gamespot's site back in 2003 and was pretty hype for it and was surprised it was cancelled.
Ah, I see. What a shame.
Ahh no cancelled fighters list is complete without Thrill Kill. It was one of those infamous "I know a friend who has a copy" games. But you're right it was trash when you actually played it lol.
I would've loved the SNES to of got a port of K.I 2. Although I'm still not over Nintendos decision to scrap their 'arcade perfect' version of the first game on the 'Ultra 64' .. does that count as a cancelled game? I mean they even had the audacity to advertise it on the arcade cabinet .. "Coming to your home in 1995 only on Nintendo's ULTRAAAAAA 64" 😂 bastards!
Another interesting and well put together video, Pete.
Yeah, I suppose that does count! Bit cheeky to have it on the cab and then scrap it, although I guess it was free advertising for the console for them. Thanks, Adam!
Wish to see a cancelled MMO games episode.
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We need these revivals again either on websites or patron support fr
Hi great video as always.
Have you considered doing one on RPGs? I think that could be interesting.
Nah, not really a genre I have much interest in I'm afraid.
Great stuff Pete and very entertaining. Though by looking at some of these games maybe it’s a good think they never saw the light of day lol.
So Tekken x Street Fighter was that ever officially cancelled, or is it STILL in development?
Take it easy mate.
Hahaha poor old Tekken X SF.
Great video thank you
Thank you!
These are always interesting to watch. That Justice League game did look pretty decent. Shame it never materialised.
Yeah, real shame. Looks more like a beat 'em up, but seems really fun, and quite far along in development.
I remember so many of these! More than even I thought I would have. Most notably:
- Thea Realm Fighters unlocked some crazy, long dormant memory haha. I totally remember seeing this in gaming mags during the E3 editions and really being thrown by just how blatant of an MK rip off it looked like in a landscape that already had a sea of them. Ho-Sung Pak didn't even bother changing up many of his fighting poses from when he played Liu Kang haha.
- Never heard of The Chainsaw Incedent but it looks pretty awesome visually. Reeeally makes me want a new hi-res 2D Darkstalkers even more, but I'm not gonna open up that wound haha.
- As a Capcom fighting junkie, I was gutted when Capcom Fighting Allstars was canceled.
- I remember somewhat looking forward to Bio Freaks, but I never ended up playing it. I also remember it being one of the better looking games at the time, which looking back..oof haha.
- I totally thought that version of FX Fighter had been released at some point, but nobody had an NEC-FX so I had no way of verifying back in the day 😂 I remember being curios how it even worked with the FMV, and well it turns out it didn't.
- I remember reading a big feature in I think it might have been EGM on Tattoo Assassins, and although I thought the premise was really dumb and it looked silly, I was actually pretty excited for it. Then years later I got my hands on a ROM and played it, and boy was it wonky and glitchy haha. A lot of times you would just do fatalities without entering inputs at the end of the match, and most of the "200+" fatalities (there was a promo that said over 2000, but they most often claimed over 200, and the actual number is still well under 200) were completely random and stupid. The game was hilarious both unintentionally and intentionally though haha. Also the gameplay in this video is way slowed down, the game's pace and flow is actually very similar to MK2.
Definitely a lot of promise in these games. What a shame...
10th degree looked well worth a play, if only rise of the robots was in this list. 😂
It is 😂😂.
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The idea of a magic the gathering inspired versus game sounds so cool
Yeah, surprised more stuff like that doesn't exist TBH.
@@onaretrotipPS1 did have an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fighting game though which this game reminded me of.
The Chainsaw Incident could’ve had so much damn potential, if weren’t for a lack of funding…😞😔😮💨☹️😞
Yeah, looks amazing!
@@onaretrotip yeah, but hey…a goddamn lack of funding RUINED it!!!
Thanks for caring about Chainsaw!
What a gorgeous game. Sorry it didn't make it :(
@@onaretrotip The community bashed it and hated on it more than loved the concept. They scoffed at the three move sets and said it would never work, then when MK hit with the same features they forgot it. This is the way.
What the hell, chainsaw incident looks like it would have been awesome. Only 25000 and it didn't happen...! What the hell!
Yeah, looks fantastic! 😢
That Justice League Game was in no way a fighting game, that was straight up a beat em up and every comparison made was too a beat em, the fact it had plenty of easily killable AI opponents to wail on with RPG elements was solid proof of that alone
Fair point, it does look a lot more like a beat 'em up. Looks fun though!
@@onaretrotip im shocked with all the Superhero games, you didn't cover the Canceled Lobo fighting game for the SNES/Megadrive
Thrill kill looks like fun if you want a obscure beat em up.
Yes, it would appeal to a lot of people I think.
Don’t forget, there was actually an uncovered never before seen neo geo fighting game that was like dnd back in 2016 when it was found in a Japanese auction for 600 bucks and it was mostly neo geo rom dumps.
Imagine finding that!
@@onaretrotip there’s another one callled fallen angel by psiyko that was never released. Oh yeah, that never before seen for fighting game for neo geo was called dark seed
@@Kourumeme Yeah, just looked up Dark Seed actually. Looks cool! Love Psikyo, so Fallen Angel sounds interesting.
@@onaretrotip don’t forget mystic wand which was an unreleased puzzle platformer by adk for neo geo which was only seen via footage from ces back in 1991.
Who is the ñame of that game ?
Tatoo Assassins would have been AMAZING back in the day, and NOPE, i´m not joking., those who didn´t live in the early 90s wouldn´t understand, but FMV games, stuff like Rise of the Robots or Mortal Kombat where SHOCKING., the images were very impressive, and to have something like tatoo assassins, something like Mortal Kombat but more extreme and with more outrageging stuff would really be a cult arcade cabinet., YES all of this aged terribly bad, but time and ages are a very strange thing, i swear to all of you who didn´t live that time., those technologies were the cutting edge., and we all were like hypnotize by those graphics., when the years went by then people started to realize that Rise of the Robots sucked for example and so on...
Yeah that digitised style was all the rage, and one of the reasons I loved Mortal Kombat (although that love hasn't stood the test of time).
I played Tenth Degree at a arcade in Chicago the game was awesome I wish Atari would finish the game and have it for modern consoles.
Galloping Ghost?
@@onaretrotip A arcade on Belmont and Clark but the arcade is gone now.
EA Chicago was such a bad fighting game studio. Some people may have liked their old Knockout Kings/Fight Night games (I always thought they didn't modify the mocap enough, resulting in syrupy animations instead of snappy ones, but whatever), but Def Jam ICON was a disaster and Marvel CHAOS looked.... I mean, how did they not know how to do that type of game? I appreciate you mentioning Power Stone a lot in this video (WAY too many people will look at a game like, say, Kung Fu Chaos or the cancelled WWE Brawl and compare it, bizarrely, to Smash Bros because nowhere near enough respect is put on Power Stone these days), but I think the closer comparison is _ANY ANIME ARENA FIGHTER EVER MADE_ from Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm onward. In fact, with it going for a comic-shading look, utilizing an over-the-shoulder third person camera, and featuring destructible environments, Marvel CHAOS pretty much just had to be My Hero: One's Justice 2 on the PS360.... they just didn't look at any game like that for inspiration. If EA Chicago only looked over at what CyberConnect 2 was doing with Naruto, I'm 100% sure that development on Marvel CHAOS actually would've gone smoothly. 🙂
Though to be fair, that doesn't guarantee the game would've come out, as evidenced by Double Helix's Justice League Arcade there. Man, that one's cancellation really bums me out! That game legit looked great, and would've been an awesome third Justice League title from that console gen to contrast against the likes of MK vs DC and Injustice 1 in terms of providing a different gameplay style and different look for DC's heroes. Out of all of these, I really wish Justice League Arcade and Tenth Degree got released. Oh, and Arika's work on Capcom Fighting All-Stars for, uh, Capcom. Arika needs more respect put on them - hopefully their recently (just, like, a day ago!) debuted Fighting EX Layer sequel will finally get them some of the attention they deserve!
Oh and actually, I think I would've liked to see Radical's AI The Circuit too. But that's just 'cuz I'm weird, lol. They did do Jackie Chan Stuntmaster and James Cameron's Dark Angel game though, and both of those feature great combat (I'm fairly certain Dark Angel just runs on a modified & updated Jackie Chan engine, actually. That's how similar they play and I believe Jessica Alba's character even has some of the animations from Jackie Chan Stuntmaster, lol). If AI Gladiator was another solid melee combat engine from them, it would've been fun, and it looks like it was to me.
Btw, the movie is much more a fairy tale narrative focused on the journey of Haley Joel Osment's robot boy - the game projects seemed VERY loosely connected to that world. Kinda like how some Star Wars games just took a relatively minor piece of lore or world-building, like Pod Racing, and expanded that bit into a whole game? There's a bit in the movie (featuring a really bizarre Chris Rock robot, even. Totally out of place!) that takes place in what's called a "Flesh Fair" where people who are violently anti-robot round up robots to destroy them for their amusement. If the movie is an overt Pinocchio-inspired story, then this is probably the 'Pleasure Island' equivalent. Anyway, I'm pretty sure AI The Circuit was just taking _THAT_ little concept from the movie and expanding it into a general "robots being made to fight for the amusement of the people"-idea, that's all. If you're curious about that scene, or just wanna see the Chris Rock robot, here's a link: th-cam.com/video/ZMbAmqD_tn0/w-d-xo.html (Chris Rock here: th-cam.com/video/UoVTah9BSyo/w-d-xo.html )
Anyway, great video as always! Great collection of games too - a nice mix of 2D and 3D and genuinely some surprises to see. I'm a huge fight fan and I have never heard of Chainsaw Incident! It looked awesome too.
You're so right about Naruto UNS! That would be the ideal template for a good Marvel arena brawler.
Un fx fighter en super Nintendo fue anunciado, iba a ser poligonal, usando el chip fx.
No hubo mucho avance, fue cancelado, pero si hubo imágenes.
Cool!
If the chainsaw incident became popular maybe chainsawman will be dlc
Maybe!
This tickles my fancy
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Clay fighters was the shit back on the 64. Lot of good memories playing with my siblings and my parents.
I never really played that version, although loved it on SNES BITD.
Since you seem to like and reply to a lot of comments, let me ask you this: what game do you personally wish came into fruition?
I reply to every comment! Hmm, of these I really would like to play Capcom Fighting All-Stars. I just love Capcom fighters, and (contrary to popular taste) I really like the 3D ones like Street Fighter EX and Rival Schools, so I think that could've been a fun game.
@@onaretrotipthink the failure of Final Fight Revenge and a Capcom's push into focusing more on action titles killed it
Shame the PC-FX didn't come with the 3D card they released for DOS.
Indeed!
@@onaretrotip Could of imagined some early 3D arcade ports like Winning Run working alright on it, maybe even better!
1:45 is that a...shirtless Gene Hackman in the background? 😳
Yes.
@@onaretrotip may God have mercy on us all.
@@ens0246 Gene Hackman is your God now.
@@onaretrotip I pray to Joe Pesci
I played Eye of the Typhoon on DOS a few years ago and the game blew me away, it was WAY BETTER than Fight Fever (which was mid at best), and a Neo Geo version using the G I G A P O W E R would be awesome.
Yeah, pretty impressive for DOS isn't it!
Rise of the Robots; a game born from a gimmick and marketing execs.
Indeed.
Better robot fighting games than Rise of the Robots:
Wing Gundam: Endless Duel (SNES)
Gundam Battle Assault 2 (PS1)
Gundam EX Revue (arcade)
Megatudo 2096 (PS1)
Virtual On series (arcade, Saturn, DC)
Real Robots Final Attack (PS1)
Tech Romancer (Dreamcast)
Cyberbots (arcade/PS1/Saturn)
@@budgiecat9039 appreciate the list but how about we just say, “all other robot fighting games”? 😏
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Missing Force Five, Kenju, The Falling Angels and Konami's Fighting Bujitsu.
I definitely wish Tenth Degree, Capcom Fighting All Stars, and that Justice League game had come out.
The Falling Angels was actually supposed to be finally finished and released a few years ago for modern consoles but nothing ever became of it afaik.
It's not a complete list (as stated at the start of the video). None of the videos in this series are.
@@onaretrotip Yeah but it woulda been nice if you had included those. Especially Fighting Bujitsu as that woulda been interesting to discuss.
@@budgiecat9039 The Atomiswave ones weren't around when this was written, would've been cool to show Force Five for sure. Fighting Bujutsu wasn't cancelled though was it?
@@onaretrotip You posted this video almost a year ago so absolutely yes the Dreamcast converted Atomisware games were already around by then for at least three years.
I know because I've had most of them downloaded onto my Raspberry Pi 4 for which I had bought in 2020 and installed them in the same year, so they were converted in 2020.
Nonetheless all those games are well over 20 to 25 years old anyway..
Fighting Bujitsu absolutely was cancelled by Konami.
I'm still pissed about that because it looked like it was gonna be a contender against Virtua Fighter and Tekken and competition yields more quality for us gamers. This is why Madden games suck now because there is no competition.
You can still find some rare videos of the game running on some rare arcade Jamma boards some people found and unfortunately even though the game was ripped and uploaded online for emulation, it runs like crap on MAME emulation last I checked.
At least the few but rare actual arcade footage videos run well...hmm
As far as Konami, they ended up making another 3D fighter which was released to the first PlayStation at the end of 1998 it was called Kensei: Sacred Fist, and it's a pretty underrated fighter. It even has a -not- Steven Seagal character in it named Douglas.
Just like how N64's Fighter's Destiny 2 has a -not- Dennis Rodman character named D Dog who wears a pink thong over his tights... 🤢
Btw while Force Five was cancelled, some relatively unknown publisher back in the day bought its assets, redesigned the game giving a completely different roster and named it Jingu Storm and that came out in arcades although very rare.
@budgiecat9039 It was written mamy years ago, but yeah I'm sure they were around if I'd looked hard enough.
Do you have any links that might give info on Fighting Bujutsu being cancelled please? Every source I can find indicates it was released.
To be honest
These games look so cool!
I Like the chainsaw incident, burning fist, fatal noise, capcom fighting allstars, global kumite, marvel chaos, clay fighter 3DS game and PS1.
Who agree with me? Which one of the games would you want to play.
Chainsaw Incident has gorgeous graphics, but I think I'd most like to play Capcom Fighting All-Stars.
@@onaretrotip same. They’re all great games. Shame some of them were cancelled or scrapped
Marvel Chaos reminds me of EA's Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects which came out on PS2/Xbox/PSP/DS but had smaller sized arena backgrounds
@@budgiecat9039your right it dose. It would probably be like that game but with more open stage, more characters and more fighting styles.
@@nathanblevins158 I usually played the PSP version of that game because unlike the main version you could unlock Doctor Doom
GJ
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Tekken X Streetfighter 2 Tekken graphics.
Yeah, I was really excited to see what they did with it, as it was such a crazy idea that each studio would make their own version of the game. Shame Namco never followed through.
Nah, all of them are crappy, except CVS3.
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@@onaretrotip Capcom Fighters All-Stars is the only good game here.
@@SalvationTenshi In your opinion.
@@onaretrotip Yes, at least in my opinion.
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I would’ve loved for sorcery to come out in its original plan state
Indeed. 😢
Global kumite looks fun.
Yeah, decent.
Eternal champions , third. The final chapter for sega saturn
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The justice league game getting canceled is an utter atrocitie.
I know, right!
Marvel game looks like it would have ruled to.😢😢
Shame :(