{"id":102495,"date":"2019-10-25T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/unreleased_super_nes_prototype_tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_emerges_after_25_years"},"modified":"2019-10-25T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:30:00","slug":"unreleased-super-nes-prototype-tarzan-lord-of-the-jungle-emerges-after-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/25\/unreleased-super-nes-prototype-tarzan-lord-of-the-jungle-emerges-after-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreleased Super NES Prototype Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle Emerges After 25 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a57ef68edd056\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a57ef68edd056\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"MeTarzan\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a57ef68edd056\/metarzan.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a57ef68edd056\/metarzan.900x.jpg\" alt=\"MeTarzan\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>A playable prototype for a planned Super Nintendo game called <strong>Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle<\/strong> has been unearthed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingalexandria.com\/wp\/2019\/10\/24\/tarzan-lord-of-the-jungle-snes-unreleased\/\">Gaming Alexandria<\/a> and a collection of assets and documents have also been made available on the site alongside an article detailing the game&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The side-scrolling platformer was originally scheduled for release in 1994 and was previously known to exist through various screenshots, but now the game (or what was made of it) is available for all to play. The prototype ROM has been in the possession of the project&#8217;s programmer Jim Grundell for over 25 years.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z8psjOq_U-8?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Eurocom developed two GameTek published versions for the Game Boy and Game Gear that <em>did<\/em> make it to market but according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingalexandria.com\/wp\/2019\/10\/24\/tarzan-lord-of-the-jungle-snes-unreleased\/\">the article<\/a> the SNES version was contracted out to Manley &amp; Associates, now known as Electronic Arts Seattle. As you can see from the video above, the game looked to be in a decent state, although Grundell believes it was missing a lot of levels, as he told Gaming Alexandria:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe game was playable, it didn\u2019t have any bugs, but I don\u2019t think it had a lot of content. I can only remember 2 or 3 distinct levels and a few cutscenes, but there may have been more. I\u2019m not sure the design was complete and we just had a few levels to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unrelated to the Disney interpretation of Edgar Rice Burroughs&#8217; character (that wouldn&#8217;t appear until 1999, a little late for a Super NES game), the reasons for the game&#8217;s cancellation are numerous and intriguing. As you might have surmised if you watched the video above, while the sprite work looks pretty good, character movement wasn&#8217;t very smooth.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason for the game never seeing the light of day had to do with The Lord of the Jungle&#8217;s wilful slaughter of every last creature &#8211; often endangered species &#8211; that he comes across. The developer reportedly attempted to paper over this issue by making the poor animals &#8216;magic&#8217; and disappear in puffs of smoke, but that didn&#8217;t address the poor gameplay and the game was canned.<\/p>\n<p>The article goes more in-depth and features animated frames of Tarzan taking lions down with his knife alongside a collection of other sprite work and assorted documentation. It&#8217;s a fascinating look at an unreleased Super NES game and well worth a read.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Check out the newly released prototype of &#8220;Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle&#8221; for SNES!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jim Grundell, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DickWhitehouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dickwhitehouse<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thatdylanfellow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thatdylanfellow<\/a> for helping us share this gem with the world.<\/p>\n<p>Get the ROMs, source code, graphics, and much more here:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FMhEp20PrY\">https:\/\/t.co\/FMhEp20PrY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rEGGu346oP\">pic.twitter.com\/rEGGu346oP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Gaming Alexandria (@GamingAlexandri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GamingAlexandri\/status\/1187452596224692225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Would you have enjoyed the chance to rescue Jane on SNES? Did you play either of the handheld games (or any other Tarzan title, for that matter)? Swing in below and leave a comment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A playable prototype for a planned Super Nintendo game called Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle has been unearthed by Gaming Alexandria and a collection of assets and documents have also been made available on the site alongside an article detailing the game&#8217;s history. 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