Luigi's Mansion (found full FMV of SpaceWorld 2000 trailer for GameCube action-adventure game; 2000)
Luigi's Mansion is a 2001 action-adventure game for the GameCube, developed and published by Nintendo. The game is a spinoff to the Mario Franchise, featuring Mario's Brother, Luigi exploring a mansion full of ghost after winning a contest he never entered. The game was released in Japan on September 14th, 2001, November 18th, 2001 in North America, and May 3rd, 2002 in Europe and received generally positive review. Though, in 2000, A tech demo was only shown at SpaceWorld 2000 and never shown again outside of japan, becoming lost to the general public.
Information
Luigi's mansion was the first to be shown as a tech demo for SpaceWorld 2000. The animation was made by using GameCube's hardware with some of the animation being used for the E3 2001 trailer. The demo starts off with a b-roll of the mansion, and then shows the early parlor of couches, a fireplace, and a TV with three ghost. Luigi then enters the mansion and looks at the camera before showing a ghost taunting him. Luigi then screams with two ghost peeking at what's going on before showing three ghost playing 5-Card poker at the parlor. The ghosts then chase Luigi before surrounding him, being terrified. It then cuts to show Luigi outside the mansion with a gloomy face (as a game over screen that was scrapped).[1]
Availability
The full tech demo was shown on a site called "GamerWebb". The footage will be there until 2003 when the site was closed down for a new site called "Kikizo". A archive of Kikizo was found that contains old things from their archive but nothing about the SpaceWorld 2000 tech demo. Only 8 seconds of the footage was available on the internet (being the scrapped game over screen), sparking a search for this tech demo.
Eventually, users, "Jimi Jaden, Bluefire Sorcerer, and Petabyte" contacted the creator of Kikizo/GamerWebb, Adam Doree if he still had the footage. He still had the footage and released the video onto his YouTube channel on November 24, 2021, rendering it found.[2]
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See Also
Luigi's Mansion (lost early builds of GameCube action-adventure game; 2000-2001)
External Link
The Cutting Room Floor which includes a section of the tech demo