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Nintendo Player has two very special prototypes to feature today. These aren’t your typical, run-of-the-mill betas, but actually playable Super Nintendo demos of unproduced games by Punk Development/Iguana Entertainment.

The first demo is named Jeff’s Shoot’Em Up, and plays like a G-rated Smash TV.

In the future, all asteroids are shaped like phalluses, and giant grasshoppers make outerspace their home. All that and more in the second demo, Shooter.

Site reader, Ken Love, has cracked the Konami code!

By using a Goonies II editor tool and slightly modifying the game code, Ken was able to beat the Famicom prototype and see the previously blocked ending.

Check out the updated Goonies II prototype article for more information on how he did it and pictures of the closing cutscene.

And stay tuned to the site, as we’ll have more new prototypes to feature in the days to come.

This Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time Super Nintendo sample cartridge marks Nintendo Player’s fourth video game prototype based on the Ninja Turtles franchise. A bit obsessive, you say? You have no idea. Cowabunga!

A popular home console port of the arcade classic Konami beat ‘em up, our prototype shows several interesting (and funny) changes, including a special level select option, the name of another Konami title in the game code (Ganbare Goemon, otherwise known as The Legend of the Mystical Ninja), lots of Engrish, and many more totally radical differences.

Let’s Show Time, Master Sprinter!

Just as a little aside: Believe it or not, this is our 30th prototype release. What started out as a curiosity back in high school has become a full-blown addiction, and we’ll be the first to admit that it’s not at all healthy. Although we haven’t always had the best of luck with these things in the past (that’s putting it mildly), rest assured that you can look forward to a few more money-sucking digital demon temptresses (read: video game prototypes) in the near future that’ll hopefully help turn the tide. Either that, or you’ll soon find us panhandling on the nearest street corner. Basically, whichever comes first!

Nintendo Player has just obtained an historic Mario prototype for the NES. While we’re still checking the game for changes, we can say for sure that in its current state the game is nearly unplayable.

Nintendo has a strict policy when it comes to its prototypes. For that reason, few true betas from the Mario series exist outside of Nintendo’s headquarters.

This cartridge is, to our knowledge, the only copy in private hands and has never been seen by the general public before. Again, and we cannot stress this enough, our Mario NES prototype is nothing if not historical.

Please try to stay patient with us while we continue to search through the game code and prep the article. Check back early next month, when all will be revealed.

The wait is over. Let the gratuitous crotch punching begin!

Steven Seagal is The Final Option is an unreleased Super Nintendo title starring none other than everyone’s favorite ponytailed ’90s action hero. Nintendo Player has recently acquired one of the only known prototype cartridges of this cancelled game.

To find out more about its development, we interviewed Steve Wik of Running With Scissors (the makers of the Postal series). Steve was closely attached to the project, and he has a great sense of humor about it all.

Check out the full article.