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The Cutting Room Floor
The Cutting Room Floor ist eine Seite, die der Recherche und Dokumentation unbenutzter und geschnittener Inhalte von Videospielen gewidmet ist. Von Entwickler-Menüs über unbenutzte Musik, Grafiken, Gegner oder Level: Viele Spiele werden mit Inhalten veröffentlicht, die niemand bis auf die Entwickler zu Gesicht bekommen sollte oder die, wenn sie doch für alle gedacht waren, aus Zeit- und Budgetgründen geschnitten wurden.
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Exzellenter Artikel
King Arthur & the Knights of Justice
Developer: Manley & Associates
Publisher: Enix
Released: 1994, Super Nintendo
Much like how Squaresoft created Square USA to develop Secret of Evermore completely in America, Enix had a game of their own made in the states by developer Manley & Associates, then located in Seattle, Washington. A game based on King Arthur would make sense, since Americans are very familiar with the legend, but Enix took it one step further and based the game on a cartoon about football players who travel back in time to Camelot called King Arthur & the Knights of Justice.
The cartoon only lasted two seasons, and the game was met with much criticism. Not all of it was undeserved, though: it's notoriously glitchy, has an awkward password-based saving system, and uses some rather shallow and repetitive design, all of which suggest it was released in an unfinished state.
However, because so much was cut from the game for whatever reasons (budget and time constraints being most likely), it has turned out to be a real treasure trove of unused graphics, dialogue, items, and other content. Some elements (such as an unused cutscene) reveal how much more ambitious the project originally was, while others (mainly unused "fetch quest" items) were most likely removed to make the game less tedious than it already is.
While nobody (probably not even the developers) would argue that King Arthur & the Knights of Justice is a great game, it is an undeniably interesting little page in SNES history.
Did You Know...
- ...that Gremlins: Unleashed and Kirikou have a variety of hidden images and messages from the developers, including rants about crappy Windows dev environments?
- ...that the Amiga version of Dragon's Lair has a message to crackers, asking them to wait a while before cracking the game...and it worked?
- ...that Donkey Kong Jr. was meant to appear in Donkey Kong 3?
- ...that in Serious Sam 3: BFE, a giant invincible scorpion will spawn if the game detects that it's a pirate copy?
- ...that the arcade game of The Simpsons was made much easier (and given an actual scoring system) for the Japanese market?
- ...that at one point in development, the green background in the 1990 Windows version of Solitaire could be changed to a bitmap image?
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