The 'GoldenEye 007' remake almost happened before it fell apart - here's what it looked like

Back in the late 1990s, the coolest place to be was huddled around a Nintendo 64 playing "GoldenEye 007" with your friends. The revolutionary first-person shooter from game developer Rare laid the groundwork for the genre on consoles four years before the first "Halo" came out.

You'd think that one of the most popular and beloved games of all time would've been remade or re-released at some point, right? Well, thanks to a truckload of copyright issues, it never has.

But for one shining moment, there was hope. In 2008, Rare was working on an HD remake of "GoldenEye 007" for Xbox 360, but the game was cancelled before it could be released. Thanks to a website called Rare Thief, however, we now have an idea of what it would have looked like: