We have added some new images in these galleries: GT 2000, Looney Tunes Space Race 64, Phantasy Star 4, Dando & Chakan (DC).
Killer Instinct [Beta – SNES Arcade]
Killer Instinct is a fighting game developed by RareWare and published by Midway and Nintendo. Initially released in arcades in 1994 it was later ported to the Super Nintendo. In the gallery below you can notice some early character designs for B.Orchid and Glacius. As they wrote at the Killer Instinct Arena, the earliest version of Black Orchid was a blonde amazon, but a later version of her featured a black outfit. In the final game Orchid wears a green and yellow dress.
Also, thanks to Lucazz we found out that a beta Killer Instinct ROM was somehow leaked online, and it contains many differences from the final version:
- the orchid stage and the cinder stage have the same beta floor
- glacius and jago have an unused song
- the gangsta theme is in glacius’ stage
- the fulgore theme is in cinder’s stage
- the menu screen is in a different position
- the orchid stage doesn’t have the rare and nintendo logos in the screens and the stage side is moved to the right
- the raptor sprites are corrupted
- the eyedol bridge stage is in the cinder’s stage, similar of the arcade
- in the continue screen the song is the same as the menu screen
Thanks to Robert Seddon and Lucazz for the contributions!
In a promotional video of Killer Instinct, embedded below, we can see an early version of the coin-op with some differences:
- Beta character selection screen
- Cinder’s name was Meltdown and Sabrewolf’s Werewolf.
- Some of the combo types were removed or changed, like Mondo combo and Elite combo
- The voice that announces the stage name is different
- Some stages were slightly different, like the Tower arena and the Sabrewulf livel
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Donkey Kong Country 2 for the Virtual Boy?
With the success of Donkey Kong Country, Nintendo gave Rare the thumbs up for a sequel on the Virtual Boy. This happened just after the launch of the VB and was only at the drawing boards and in developement for a matter of weeks but it was cancelled due to the obvious failure of the Virtual boy itself. At the end of 1995, a sequel of the original game was released as “Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest” on the SNES.
Worms for the Virtual Boy?
In 1995, British developer Team17 got to work on a version of the game ‘Worms’ for the Virtual Boy. Little is known about the game other than it was a planned remake of “Worms” with no known differences over the original. The game was cancelled after only few weeks of it in production, probably due to the cancellation of the Virtual Boy release in Europe. There are no screens from the Virtual Boy version and it’s unknow if there even was a playable build.
Clayfighter 3 – Beta video [N64 or M2?]
Before being a N64 game, Clayfighter 63 1/3 was planned to be released for the Panasonic M2. In this video we can see and old version of the game, with a different HUD and maybe a couple of different stages (i’m not sure, i played the final game many years ago..). This could even be a movie from the cancelled M2 version, but it’s hard to tell. If you see some more differences, let us know! :)