Unreleased Hosenose & Booger: A Bizarre Jaguar Casualty
ASG Technologies had a bizarre graphic adventure, Hosenose & Booger, planned for the SEGA Genesis and Atari Jaguar. This game, advertised in 1994, never saw release, another casualty in the Jaguar's short, troubled run. The project, detailed by Games That Werent, promised a crude, surreal take on the genre.
The game's premise was certainly unique. Players would control Hosenose, who accidentally inhales his girlfriend after a sneeze. The entire adventure was set inside Hosenose’s diseased body. Along the way, players would encounter a cast of grotesque characters, including Mickki Mewkus, Logjam Sam, Vicki Virus, and Evil Dr Bile.
Advertisements for Hosenose & Booger appeared in magazines like EGM and GameFan. These promotions often ran alongside ASG Technologies’ unreleased Video Jukebox peripheral. Despite promises of more details, subsequent issues offered nothing. No screenshots, no previews, and critically, no prototype builds have ever surfaced.
The Jaguar's Shadow
A Jaguar version was reportedly planned for a late 1994 release, with Activision named as a potential publisher. This is where the story gets familiar. The Atari Jaguar platform struggled from the start. Its sales never met expectations, and developer support dwindled fast. What this hints at, for the scene, is how many projects simply vanished without a trace, especially on platforms like the Jaguar, where development costs were high and market reach was low.
Many games were announced, advertised, and then quietly cancelled. Hosenose & Booger is another example of this trend. The lack of any physical evidence, like a dumped ROM or even a single screenshot, makes it a true ghost in the machine. For collectors, these unreleased titles represent a fascinating, if frustrating, void in console history.
A Lost Piece of History
Only one person, Sharon Hurtley-Durand, is linked to the project via SegaRetro.org. Beyond that, details about the game’s development or its ultimate cancellation remain unknown. The SEGA Mega Drive (known as Genesis in the US) version also failed to materialize, despite that console's much larger install base. This suggests the cancellation might have been more about ASG Technologies' own issues or the game's viability than just the Jaguar's woes.
The call for more information from Games That Werent shows the ongoing effort to preserve these lost pieces of gaming history. Every piece of promotional material, every developer interview, helps fill in the gaps. Without prototypes or even concept art, games like Hosenose & Booger remain tantalizing mysteries, forever existing only in old magazine ads.
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Originally published by Games That Werent. Read original article.