Bound High

Unreleased Bound High is about a bouncing spherical robot who crushes his opponents from above in a top-down view. It's a lot better than it may sound, and it was one of three highly-anticipated Virtual Boy games announced to be "coming soon" right before Nintendo pulled the plug.

Still, the game was completed and eventually a finished prototype was leaked online.

Old Menu Graphics
Beginning at in the prototype ROM are the title screen and main menu graphics.

Logo Text
The company name in the intro is part of the cat logo, and on the title screen it's displayed in the game's normal font. This double-height "font" is included with the other title screen graphics, however.

Mode Names
Stored along with the rest of the menu graphics is this text, presumably used for the mode names before they were finalized (as seen at right). Since each letter is only included once, it's not abundantly clear what they all spell, but an educated guess might be "QUEST", "PUZZLE", "RANDOM", and "JOURNEY". Notably, the "Score Attack!!" mode in the final game uses puzzle pieces as its background.

While "Quest" and "Journey" kind of make sense for their respective modes, the synonymous names were probably too confusing.