Super Mario Spikers (lost build of cancelled Wii volleyball-wrestling sports game; 2007)

One of the game's proposed logos.

Status: Lost

Super Mario Spikers was a game that Next Level Games, who previously made Super Mario Strikers for the Nintendo GameCube in 2005 and Mario Strikers Charged for the Wii in 2007, had pitched to Nintendo in the early years of the Wii after they gave them more budget and creative direction due to how successful the Strikers games were.

Development

Originally, it was simply going to be a Mario-themed volleyball game titled Mario Volleyball, likely to fit in with other Mario spinoff names (Mario Golf, Mario Kart, etc.). As development went on, however, the team felt compelled to incorporate wrestling elements to their game, possibly inspired by their then-recent work on WWE Titans Parts Unknown, and eventually retitled the game to Super Mario Spikers. Eventually, they had enough material made to show it to Nintendo, including concept art, animations, and even a playable prototype. Ultimately, upon seeing the content, Nintendo rejected it due to the game's violence going against their code of honor, and production was promptly stopped.

Prototype

During NLG's showing of the game to Nintendo, they had a fairly functional prototype of the game to show to them. No footage of the prototype has been found online nor has a dump of it been leaked, and it's unknown if anyone at Nintendo or NLG still has a copy of it.

Gallery

Prototype animations for the game.

Unseen64's video on the game.

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  Original logo.

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  Mario costume concept art.

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  Another Mario costume concept art.

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  Stage concept art.

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  Another stage concept art.

See Also

• BS Super Mario Collection (partially lost Satellaview broadcast versions of compilation platformer; 1997-1998)
• Mario Artist (lost builds of unreleased Nintendo 64DD games; 1999-2000)
• Mario's Castle (lost build of cancelled game on Nintendo's "Project Atlantis" handheld console; existence unconfirmed; 1995-1998)
• Mario Demo (lost Virtual Boy tech demo; 1994)
• Mario's Face (lost Nintendo DS tech demo; 2004)
• Mario Motors (lost build of unreleased Nintendo DS racer; early 2000s)
• Mario Kart XXL (lost Game Boy Advance tech demo; 2004)
• Mario Takes America (lost build of cancelled Philips CD-i edutainment game; 1992-1994)
• New Super Mario Bros. (lost early builds of Nintendo DS 2D platformer; 2004-2006)
• New Super Mario Bros. Mii (lost Wii U tech demo; 2011)
• Super Mario 128 (lost build of cancelled GameCube/Wii game; 2000-2006)
• Super Mario 64 (partially found Spaceworld '95 demo of Nintendo 64 3D platformer; 1995)
• Super Mario Bros. 3 (lost Japanese prototype of NES platformer; 1987-1988)
• Super Mario Bros. (lost Commodore 64 port of NES platformer; existence unconfirmed; 1986)
• Super Mario Disk Version aka "Super Mario 64DD" (found unreleased Nintendo 64DD port of 3D platformer; 1999)
• Super Mario Galaxy (lost beta builds of Wii platformer; 2006-2007)
• Super Mario Kart R (partially found pre-release version of "Mario Kart 64"; 1995)
• Super Mario RPG 2 (lost pre-release version of "Paper Mario" Nintendo 64 role-playing game; late 1990s)
• Super Mario's Wacky Worlds (found prototype of cancelled CD-i game; 1993)
• Super Mario World: Mario Attack (lost Japanese arcade game; 1996)
• Super Mario World (partially found early build of Super Nintendo platformer; 1989)
• Super Paper Mario (lost build of unreleased original GameCube version of Wii side-scrolling platformer; 2006)

External Link

• Super Mario Wiki page on the game. Retrieved 28 Jan '19