Unreleased Mario and Star Fox?

[Justin]

Planet Virtual Boy threw up some awesome footage of would-be first party VB titles. Did you know that there was going to be another Mario game on Virtual Boy? Shocked? Well you should be, but brace yourself, because I'm not done yet. There was apparently a Star Fox being developed for Virtual Boy too: A game that seems like it would have fit nicely on Nintendo's Ketchup-o-Vision console.



The Star Fox footage is brief, but what little is shown is enough to impress. The Arwing (Or was it Airwing?) moves really fast, and quite fluid. I can only imagine how cool it would have been to see the 3d ship moving towards your face. The Mario game appears to blend in the multiple plane environment from Mario Clash - a no brainier on Nintendo's part - while appearing to follow up on the gameplay style established in the Gameboy Mario titles.

Star Fox footage hits at about 1:40, and the Mario stuff is around 3:00

Thanks to Waxing Erratic for the heads up.

justinzer0.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/mario-and-star-fox-demos-in-the-red-zone/

[Ashurei]

Mmm, another Starfox game that was probably good that will never see the light of day.

Well, we can play SF2, thank god.

Pretty crazy stuff, though. Thanks for the link!

[Ashurei]

So I showed this video to my old-school videogame enthusiast friend, and he pointed out that the game shown herein is not an unreleased Star Fox, but Red Alarm. What's more, he has it and I got to play it! It's... freakishly good! Probably one of the better rail shooters I've played outside of the Star Fox universe.

[Justin]

Interesting.

I checked vids on Red Alarm, and I thought the ships looked different from what was displayed in the 1995 demo kiosk. If anything, I'm wondering if that footage was in fact a really early release beta for RA, or perhaps Nintendo changed the name from Star Fox to Red Alarm.

Who knows

[Ascended Mermaid]

It IS pretty good; I have it as well. I never did beat it...