Prerelease:Cool Spot (SNES)

This page details prerelease information and/or media for Cool Spot (SNES).

The SNES Cool Spot was once a different game. It went under the name Spot II...and was a board game based on Othello with between-level cinematics? That's what an EGM article claims, anyway.

EGM Issue 35 (June 1992)

This article claims that Cool Spot was once a different game early in development. The side-scrolling scenes shown in the screenshots were actually cinematics used for this game, which was a board game based on Othello. This implies it would have been more similar to Spot: The Video Game. It is worth noting that while the SNES version of Cool Spot used mostly the same graphics as the Genesis version, these magazine screenshots appear to depict entirely different sprites for the levels, backgrounds, enemies, and Spot himself. The wave seen in the first screenshot is also very similar to the one that appears on the final game's title screen; perhaps a remnant of this early prototype, as no such wave appears in the Genesis game. Strangely, the practice of redrawing a game's sprites and changing parts of its gameplay would resurface in the SNES prototype for Spot Goes to Hollywood, which used completely different sprites and levels from the original Genesis game.