Prerelease:Yoshi's Cookie (SNES)
This page details pre-release information and/or media for Yoshi's Cookie (SNES).
Prototype Screenshots
The game was originally shown as Hermetica, prior to the Mario implementation.
Early version of the game. Mario and Yoshi are floating sprites, and the font is different.
Inaro
Hermetica was based on a gameplay concept and demo known as Inaro (1991). In the credits of Nintendo Puzzle Collection for GameCube, which explains why the copyright and trademark was held 1991-2003 Intellectual Property Consultants, Inc. under license by Nintendo. In the Wii Virtual Console manual it also says, "INARO™ Game concept ©1991-2008 Intellectual Property Consultants, Inc., used, under license, by Nintendo."
Fortunately, Wayback Machine had archived a video of a Inaro demo from the official Blue Planet Software website, captured in 2007. There is a YouTube mirror below:
Note that even though Inaro was used under license by Nintendo, there is a complication where Imagineer's 1999 Inaro-like game Hello Kitty no Beads Koubou (Hello Kitty's Beads Factory) (also licensed by Sanrio) still has a 1992 Nintendo copyright notice on the back of the box art and before the title screen one year after the 1991 concept (as well as another notice ©1999 Nintendo/Imagineer).
There was also a tech demo called Inaro 2.
