What it Was: Potentially the greatest/worst/bizarre Mario games never to be released on the Philips CD-i. Why it Was Cancelled: It was never meant to be in the first place, sadly. We’d imagine this would have been replaced by Peach herself if development had gone any further, giving us what could have been a decent Peach-playable game not aimed squarely at kids. Taking place inside the interior of the titular castle, the tech demo only featured a red arrow as the player character.
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The graphics were polished and featured gorgeous textures and high-polygon count, and the soundtrack was as catchy as you’d expect from a full Mario game. On the face of it, Peach’s Castle seemed almost like a well-polished Super Mario 64 albeit with 2001’s capabilities. Why it Would Have Been Awesome: Although the tech demo itself, by nature, was limited, Peach’s Castle showed a lot of promise as a possible entry into the Mario canon. What it Was: a tech demo for the GameCube which never made it into a full game, and nor was it probably planned for. We don’t know to what extent multiplayer would have been implemented – or much else about the planned game for that matter – but Shigeru Miyamoto himself practically confirmed it would have included Luigi as a second player option. Why It Would Have Been Awesome: As if simply being the sequel to Super Mario 64 isn’t enough, this cancelled title (which exists as only a single demo level) seemed set to change nothing about what was good about its predecessor yet add the few things that were lacking. What it Was: The potential sequel to one of the greatest Mario games ever released.
Wacky Worlds wasn’t axed for quality reasons, it was just a victim of bad timing and fell by the wayside in 1990 when sales of the CD-i rightfully went south in 1990. Why It Was Cancelled: Quite simply, because the Philips CD-i was a terrible, terrible console. That’s what Wacky Worlds seemed set to be – a straight-up follow on from Super Mario World – and that’s content we would have loved to have seen. Sure, it would have had your standard desert world (Egypt) and ice levels (Antartica), but since when has Mario ever suffered from not messing with the standard format? It would have been one of the few Mario titles to use real-world settings rather than the fantastical Mushroom Kingdom, albeit stylized… Why It Would Have Been Awesome: Because even Nintendo themselves gave it a thumbs-up during development, which is very uncharacteristic when it comes to green lighting outside developers. What it Was: A straight-forward 2D platformer for the Philips CD-i, developed by NovaLogic. … of the Mario games we actually know about, let’s take a look at some of the titles which probably would have made for excellent games (as well as what went wrong in development).
The Mario canon has delighted over 210 million players worldwide, and its variety of nuanced game mechanics have been a staple of game design school (such as ) study material in schools across the world.īut what about the games that never were? The list of cancelled Mario projects is nearly as numerous as the number of games actually released, and goodness knows how many others are languishing on Nintendo’s cutting room floor.
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Sure, there have been some fairly diabolical titles along the way – the Atari port will stick in the craw of older gamers, while the entire Mario Party series will send shivers down fans of all ages - but on the whole it’s one of the highest-acclaimed franchises for good reason. The Mario franchise has a long, rich history of being just plain brilliant which stretches back for over thirty years.
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