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Super Mario World
Developer: Nintendo

Publisher: Nintendo

Released: 1990, Super Nintendo

Super Mario World was Nintendo's first title for the SNES, and it was rushed to release for this reason, leaving a lot of unfinished content.

It contains a wealth of unused levels, some of which are from extremely early in development. There's also a lot of unused objects, from a classic Piranha Plant to a ceiling full of Swoopers – all the way to an unused screen-sized cage!

All this, combined with a lot of interesting early graphics from the SNES Test ROM and magazine preview screenshots, reveals that Super Mario World was originally intended to be a very different game: Super Mario Bros. 4.

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