Prototypes, Betas, and Unfinished Games

I am really upset with myself for not being able to articulate this in a more specific way or find the stuff I’m thinking of, but the first thing that occurred to me when I saw those designs was that they reminded me of some very old Super Mario Bros. promotional art or concept art or something that definitely presented the Koopas in this way more, like, fraggle rock esque long snouted muppety way? Did I just hallucinate that?

edit: maybe I was just thinking of this old unused Yoshi design, which has been online for awhile: https://www.usgamer.net/articles/nintendo-shows-off-what-yoshi-originally-looked-like

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https://twitter.com/vl_tone/status/1286915489923502080
https://twitter.com/vl_tone/status/1287062066101129216

https://twitter.com/PixelatedWah/status/1287019459756953600
https://twitter.com/KBMQuine/status/1287056921166352390

There’s a Castlevania 4 proto with a lot of levels with completed bosses but placeholder level graphics. This is the best example of that imo:
https://twitter.com/PixelatedWah/status/1286980381342707712

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i don’t read a ton of video game websites these days but are places like kotaku and ign and stuff not reporting on any of this because they are afraid of getting blacklisted by nintendo?

I guess the dark side of this leak is that it really is just a raw dump of data that was stolen which means the personal e-mails and info of devs especially those who were working at Argonaut Software at the time is now also getting passed around.

yeah, let’s not exhume 20-30 year old dirty laundry

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prototype simon’s theme kind of a banger tbh

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Wait, what’s different? Those like like the final menu assets to me

Just at a way higher resolution then ever seen anywhere else I think. Like a lot of other people I’m real surprised that there is actually a chain visible in the hookshot (and that the only difference with the Longshot is that the chain is a bit longer)

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gotcha

I have a feeling these were assets used in the manual and given out to magazines and strategy guides

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there’s like a dozen unused songs here

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whoa the hover boots have little jet nozzles!

more distressingly, the lens of truth has a pair of lips on it

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I’m not quite sure of the context of these yet but they were posted in the RE thread and they are making me feel things




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I kinda love this Yoshi

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