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Now let's talk about our favorite game of course super donkey. So super donkey, I believe that's what this file was labeled.

One of the coolest and weirdest find so far people have been speculating about it in a lot of different ways, but my speculation is it's a prototype that is somebody an

Nintendo or a team trying to figure out like what could a platformer be like here is a different newer kind of platformer. It stars this like people have

said it's daily the bug man from Donkey on three. It kind of looks like that, but if you look at the sprite art, him without his mask and goggles is Mario. So it's basically Mario doing stuff.

You got a big nose that super donkey man.

We can officially call him super donkey man. But yeah, this is very slight to what we have of this prototype, but it is.

He's like a clock role Rayman style character with like floating limbs kind of and a lot of this game is about climbing, you know, platforms.

And there's like a kind of a very rudimentary Castlevania map in the upper corner of the screen. It's about like climbing and you know jumping and also carrying things like at some point in this

prototype footage, he's carrying like this. Well, it's like a red vase and it's like firing missiles and he's picking up monkeys.

And then also in the sprite art for this prototype, there is an assortment of like a Yoshi's Island version of Donkey Kong.

Oh, I missed that. Yeah, that's really cool. The I I well, again, this is the kind of thing that you really like that. Wow, it's a purple donkey.

So cool. Sorry.

You hear these stories from so many developers are like, well, we prototyped out this and then we came up with that idea.

But there's there's probably countless prototypes for games you'll never going to see because they just for one reason or another didn't really sit or didn't make it into a full game.

So seeing just this to know the creative process of Nintendo that it feels like a thing that was just handed to a handful of developers of like, hey, see if there's something here.

If you don't know if this platformer idea you have works until you actually build a couple levels. So go and do it like that.

That's so cool to get this feel of like an internal only experimentation in a new type of platformer for Nintendo.

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