Trivia / Wild 9

• Stillborn Franchise: Judging from the comic book style character designs along with the large amount of story, character information and world-building in the instruction booklet, it's pretty obvious that Shiny really wanted to make Wild 9 into a franchise. Sadly, 'twasn't to be. Being a 2D sidescroller released just when 3D was starting to take over didn't help.
• Troubled Production: The project began in 1996. It was originally scheduled to be released in 1997, but Dave Perry fired a good chunk of the team members because they weren't delivering the effects and gameplay that he wanted. The game was eventually released in September 1998.
• What Could Have Been: According to the September 1997 issue of Ultra Game Players, an animated series was in the works to coincide with the game release. The series never came to fruition.
  • Initial ideas for the game included having a female character who possessed a special glove that could instantly vaporize enemies. From there, the idea progressed to an item that could do hand-like motions, only with 1,000 times the strength of a typical human, before it finally evolved into the game's final premise of a male character, Wex, who controlled the "Rig".
  • A Sega Saturn version was planned, but was shelved after the Saturn's lackluster performance in America.