Collector Blocks Preservation Of Rare NES RPG
Every now and then we hear about the discovery of a prototype for a retro video game that was never released. Not all of these discoveries result in the game’s public preservation, however. Such is the tragic case behind Indy The Magical Kid, a Famicom RPG that was thought lost until it turned up on an auction website. Now it’s definitely lost. According to Unseen64, Indy The Magical Kid was based on a series of multiple-path books. Think “Choose Your Own Adventure” only more involved — you needed dice and math skills to complete each book. The video game version took the basic story of a boy who can travel through time, and used a device similar to Chrono Trigger where visiting the same area eons later would result in different topography….but no one knows if the NES game would have used the multiple-endings gimmick. And no one ever will. When the Indy prototype appeared on auction, the Web’s most visible preservationists called their fans to arms and urgently asked