/vr/ - Retro Games

Who else finds beta stuff in video games fascinating as fuck?

I remember as a kid seeing magazine scans of Super Mario RPG, and then wondering why those things never showed up in the actual game. It always made me wonder what could have been. Same thing with Zelda OoT.

For me, the idea of an early version of a game suddenly getting leaked is one of the things that excites me the most. The sheer possibility of getting to look at and even play with an early, alpha or beta version of a game before it changed into what we know today is one I wish would happen more often.

So yeah, discuss retro video game beta leaks, prototypes, and other stuff that was covered in media but was then changed later on for release.