Can canceled games be revived?

[CaptainExplosion]

firebush03 said:

There are def games that get canned only to be revived a few years/decades later: Some immediately examples that comes to mind are Metroid Dread (originally teased/announced(?) for DS, but got canned due to technical limitations IIRC) and Kirby: Return to Dreamland (originally intended to be a GCN game, but got scrapped). There’s also Mother 3 (N64) — like Jumpin pointed out — that would eventually become Mother 3 (GBA).

As for what I would want to see revived? Skylanders Seven is a personal pick. Would also love to see that one Zelda game where Sheik was going to be the main protag. Mother 3 (N64) is another one.

Is it bad that I kinda want to see the rumored cancelled Tingle horror game to be uncancelled one day? It sounds like an oddly amusing idea. Then again, we have the Luigi's Mansion trilogy, which is also about a lovable but cowardly man dressed in green in scary situations, so Nintendo probably wouldn't see the point in a Tingle horror game.