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Early Earthworm Jim 2 Prototype Discovered

Early Earthworm Jim 2 Prototype Discovered

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The wiki website Hidden Palace has managed to track down a very early prototype of Earthworm Jim 2 for the Super NES. While prototypes are discovered fairly frequently these days, most of them tend to be nearly complete versions of the game they represent. Not this time…this version of Earthworm Jim 2 is radically different from what was sold. First off, to refresh your memory as to what Earthworm Jim 2 was like, the game was recently replayed at Awesome Games Done Quick 2019. Here is a full playthrough: Several of the levels you see here aren’t in the prototype, and in their place are levels no one knew about that didn’t make the final cut. A level called “Carnival Ride,” which is similar to the Donkey Kong Country minecart stages, features Jim careening along a track. The proto is missing some common enemies from the game and actually has some that the final doesn’t. Several enemies are depicted as rendered CG models; in the final game none are. The

Coming To SNES: Fork Parker’s Crunch-Out!

Coming To SNES: Fork Parker’s Crunch-Out!

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Thanks to the indie development scene, there are plenty of new games coming out for age-old consoles, and some are even good. Fork Parker’s Crunch-Out is one of the more unusual we’ve seen. Developed by Megacat Studios and published by Devolver Digital, you play as the titular Fork Parker, the angry CEO of a software development company who needs their next game churned out as quickly and cheaply as possible. That only means one thing (to a CEO)…crunch time! Yell at your workers, feed them junk food and coffee, and even zap them with electric shocks to keep the production line going 18-plus hours a day. But whatever you do, don’t make them happy….that wastes money! It’s a game with a purpose, calling attention to the real-world problem of worker abuse in the video game development industry. Problem is, if you end up having too much fun playing as Fork, would it have the opposite effect…? It’s for a noble cause anyway….proceeds from Fork Parker’s Crunch-Out will go to to

Capcom Reselling Street Fighter II SNES Cart For 30th Anniversary

Capcom Reselling Street Fighter II SNES Cart For 30th Anniversary

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Capcom is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Street Fighter franchise by literally going back to the exact product that made it take off. Street Fighter II for the Super NES will be reprinted, the company announced today, in a limited stock of 5,500 pieces. Most of them will be red-colored (“Ryu Red,” as Capcom puts it), but a select 1,000 of them, doled out randomly, will be see-through, glow-in-the-dark and “Blanka Green.” But that’s not the best part. This is. WARNING: Use of this reproduction game cartridge (the “Product”) on the SNES gaming hardware may cause the SNES console to overheat or catch fire. The SNES hardware is deemed a vintage collectible, so please exercise extreme caution when using the Product and make sure there is fire extinguishment equipment nearby. Use of the Product is at the sole risk of the user. Keep in mind here, the tech being used to make this cart playable on a real SNES is the same fans use to create reproduction cartridges, which

Four Lost Kirby Games Discovered In Auction

Four Lost Kirby Games Discovered In Auction

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To give a little background, the Super NES had a fancy satellite service that allowed players to download games from space during designated time periods. The service was never sold outside of Japan, and many of the games that appeared on the service were never sold again in any form. This included a remix of Link to the Past, a 16-bit remake of the original Zelda game, a second SNES F-Zero featuring new tracks, and “Radical Dreamers,” a text adventure from Square that would eventually turn into Chrono Cross. All of those titles were uncovered and preserved years ago (or, in the case of the Zelda remake, a month ago). But there are still some Satelliview games that have never turned up, such as the one we’re discussing today, Kirby no Omocha Hako (Kirby’s Toy Box). Kirby’s Toy Box was a collection of ten mini-games starring the pink puffball. They could only be downloaded one at a time and only one could be saved on the cartridge. Game preservationist Frank

The SNES’s Lost Zelda Game Is Now Fully Restored

The SNES’s Lost Zelda Game Is Now Fully Restored

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In the mid-90’s Nintendo tried a unique experiment with the Super Famicom in Japan: if customers signed up for a special service, they could download games via satellite. Unlike the Sega Channel (which came through your cable system and was mostly games already available through retail), Nintendo’s BS-X service consisted of new content. Mostly, though, this new content took the form of expansions or remakes. F-Zero got a Japan-exclusive expansion, and the original Legend of Zelda was remade with SNES graphics and enhanced sound. According to a brief story in Nintendo Power, the US branch of the company was considering bringing these games over in cartridge form, but nothing would become of it. Ever since it became possible to dump old games over the Net, the BS-X games have existed in ROM form, but the Zelda remake has never been available the way it originally appeared. This is because the month it was first broadcast (August 1995), it was coupled with a CD-quality streamed soundtrack and commentary by Japanese VAs.

The Truth About Star Fox 2

The Truth About Star Fox 2

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In the waning years of the Super NES, Nintendo went into production on a sequel to Star Fox, with bigger and grander ambitions than the original, powered by the Super FX2 chip. But the game never came out, being cancelled at the eleventh hour. Now the website Nintendo Life has scored an exclusive interview with Dylan Cuthbert, programmer for Argonaut Software, which made the original Star Fox and its original sequel. Here are the most interesting revelations gathered from that conversation…. Star Fox 2 would have changed the direction of the series Instead of running on rails, Star Fox 2 would have been a completely open-world shooter, and not only that, enemies and other elements would be randomly generated, making every playthrough different. There was even experimentation with platform stages at one point. “The series was never intended to be limited to linear 3D scrolling stages, and [Miyamoto] will often say that the only reason they did that was to get the best speed and performance out of the Super