Unreleased Animaniacs Video Game Has Surfaced The Net

A playable prototype build of a canceled Game Boy Advance game has recently appeared through a games preservation group, giving fans the chance to try out an unreleased Animaniacs game. While game preservations has been an increasing focus among many fans as older games age and hardware breaks down, canceled games tend to be among the most elusive to preserve. Canceled prototypes resurfacing has often been big news within the gaming industry, like the recent discovery of a prototype build for a canceled LEGO Minecraft game. Now, a long-lost Animaniacs Game Boy Advance game has officially surfaced online.

The Animaniacs animated series was a smash hit following its initial premiere in 1993. The series, following siblings Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, became one of the most successful cartoons of its era, taking home multiple Daytime Emmy Awards and running for five seasons. Animaniacs would even see a revival in 2020, receiving an additional three seasons capturing even more Emmy Awards following the revival's first season. Fans are now getting the chance to see what could have been an Animaniacs GBA game.

As reported by Time Extension, video game preservation group Hidden Palace recently uncovered a prototype build for the canceled Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics. The build features a mix of point-and-click gameplay with platforming segments following the Warner siblings trying to stop Pinky and the Brain from turning their water tower home into a rocket. The game was originally being developed by Conspiracy Entertainment, who later rebranded as Swing Entertainment before dissolving as a whole. Hidden Palace also features an open download for the prototype game, allowing fans to try out the Animaniacs GBA game.

The listing for the prototype game also provides some more background information about the game and its history under Conspiracy. The information about the game shares that the Animaniacs game is still listed on developer Full Fat's website, which was contracted to make the game by Conspiracy. The post even reveals that Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics was complete despite never being released, though the game is said to still be "rough around the edges." Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics was originally intended to release in 2003, notably the same year that Swing Entertainment dissolved.

The playable prototype build of Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics should serve as a major win for game preservationists among high-profile cancellations. Dungeons and Dragons developer Wizards of the Coast reportedly canceled five different in-development games in early 2023, with many believed to be centered around the iconic tabletop RPG. Game cancellation has been a hot topic in recent weeks as well, with long-awaited Minecraft competitor Hytale being shelved by Riot Games and Hypixel Studios. The Animaniacs prototype will breathe new life into a long-forgotten game for the iconic cartoon.

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Drake And Josh (GBA)

Based on the animated series of the same name, the player controls Drake and Josh in a variety of modes featuring problem solving, stealth, strategy and action-style gameplay. The game uses a password feature to save progress.

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NES: The New Zealand Story + Oopi's Quest + Parasol Stars: The Story Of Bubble Bobble III + Power Blade + Nalleland

The New Zealand Story

The player controls Tiki, a kiwi who must save his girlfriend Phee Phee and several of his other kiwi chick friends who have been kidnapped by a large blue leopard seal.

Oopi's Quest

Oopi has crash landed on an unknown planet. It's up to you to guide Oopie through the different areas collecting nuts to fix his ship.

Parasol Stars: The Story Of Bubble Bobble III

Players follow the adventures of two dragon brothers, Bubby and Bobby, who have now taken on their human forms. Some fans may recall that the two protagonists regained their human forms at the end of Bubble Bobble. Now, they embark on a mission to save their neighboring planets from an evil menace. Instead of shooting bubbles, they are now armed with colorful parasols with magical powers. These parasols are also used to shield against enemy projectiles, stun enemies or just line them up and throw one into the mix for even bigger highscores.

Power Blade 

After years of fighting that took millions of casualties, Earth is recovering from revolts in the 22nd century. In 2191, New Earth has a Master Computer that holds a secret database of the colony-planet's functioning. In wrong hands, the database could prove fatal to the whole planet. 

Nalleland

Nalleland is a short platformer about a bear on an adventure. This bear is equipped with a versatile tool: an enchanted pin. It can be thrown into the terrain and bounced on, thrown at monsters to pin them in place, and more!

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NES: The Punisher + Shatterhand + Shadow Of The Ninja + Spacegulls + The Three Stooges

The Punisher 

The player controls the Punisher from an over-the-shoulder third-person perspective through various New York City locations, shooting thugs and battling supervillains Hitman, Jigsaw, Colonel Kliegg, Sijo Kanaka, and Assassin as bosses. The final boss is the Kingpin. Power-ups can be obtained by shooting them and include extra ammunition, a med kit, Kevlar, a bazooka, a machine gun, and grenades.

Shatterhand

Set in the year 2030, a group of military renegades known as Metal Command, led by General Gus Grover, are seeking to conquer the world by building an army of cyborg soldiers. Steve Hermann, a young police officer from the Bronx, ends up losing both of his arms during a skirmish with members of Metal Command. After the incident, Hermann is offered two specially developed cybernetic arms developed by the Law and Order Regulatory Division (L.O.R.D.) to replace the ones he lost. Hermann accepts the offer and becomes an agent codenamed "Shatterhand," who is now tasked with the mission to defeat Metal Command.

Shadow Of The Ninja 

In 2029, the evil Emperor Garuda has taken over the United States of America, building a stronghold in the middle of the nation's "largest city". To stop Garuda and avenge the innocent lives that were lost in his reign, two ninja masters from the Iga clan, Lord Hayate and Lady Kaede, are sent to infiltrate the dictator's well-guarded stronghold and kill him.

Spacegulls

Spacegulls is a free platformer game by indie developer Morphat Games. This arcade game combines elements of both Joust and Mega Man. It stars a pair of seagulls tasked with a mission to stop an evil doctor by completing levels. However, each stage will have obstacles and enemies.

The Three Stooges 

The Three Stooges must rescue an old woman's orphanage by earning money in minigames based on various Three Stooges films. These include cracker-eating contests (based on the Stooges short Dutiful But Dumb) and boxing matches (based on the short Punch Drunks).

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The Simpsons: Bart Vs. The World (NES)

 

The game is based on the animated television series The Simpsons. On the Krusty the Clown Show, Bart Simpson wins the opportunity to participate in a Round-the-World scavenger hunt. However, the contest has been rigged by Mr. Burns' assistant, Smithers, in order for Burns to rid himself of the Simpson family for all the trouble they have caused him over the years. Burns sends his agents and fellow family members to take care of the Simpsons during the scavenger hunt. Bart travels through various real-world locations collecting items, with occasional cameos from the other Simpsons family members.

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Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday (SNES)

Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday is a side-scrolling platform game. The main character, Porky Pig, can move left and right, jump, swing on chains, climb, enter doorways and ride bubbles underwater. Standing on some platforms causes a vampire-costumed Daffy Duck to appear, scaring Porky and propelling him up into the air to reach high places. Enemies in a level can be defeated either by jumping on them or hitting them with fruit after collecting a fruit bowl power-up.

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NES: The Uncanny X-Men + Whomp Em + Zombie Nation

The Uncanny X-Men

The object is to use several X-Men characters, each with special powers, to complete a series of missions. The powers of each character come in handy on particular missions. The game allows for either one or two players. If the 1-Player mode is selected, the player will be joined by an AI ally. The playable characters available are Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Iceman. There are five bosses in order of appearance: Boomerang, Sabretooth, Juggernaut, The White Queen, and Magneto. Some characters have features that stand out. Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Colossus fight through melee combat while Cyclops, Storm, and Iceman shoot projectiles. Nightcrawler can walk through walls (to simulate teleporting). Colossus cannot jump like the other characters. If the player holds on to B, they can make Storm fly.

Whomp Em

Whomp 'Em is a platform game with some similarities to the Mega Man and Mario series. After completing the first stage, the player can play the other six in any order. Each of the stages revolves around elements, such as fire and water. After each stage, the player gains a new weapon, much like in the original Mega Man series, which was extremely popular at the time. Both Whomp 'Em and the prior Saiyūki World (which was an adaptation of Wonder Boy in Monster Land) are based on the Journey to the West novel.

Zombie Nation 

The plot of Zombie Nation takes place in 1999, when a meteor known as "Darc Seed" (Eva in the Japanese version) crashes in the Nevada desert. Darc Seed/Eva then shoots magnetic rays and turns the people of the United States into zombies. Darc Seed/Eva also brings the Statue of Liberty to life to follow its commands. The magnetic rays also allow Darc Seed/Eva to control many deadly weapons, including the most powerful weapon of all—the legendary samurai sword Shura.

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Avatar: The Legend Of Aang - Burning Earth (GBA)

The Burning Earth is based on the second season, Book 2: Earth, of the television series. The game begins with Team Avatar arriving at an Earth Kingdom base where they confront General Fong, who seeks to trigger Aang's Avatar State to overthrow the Fire Nation. After defeating Fong's forces, Aang enters the Avatar State to stop him. 

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer (GBA)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 2000 beat 'em up game developed by GameBrains and published by THQ. Based on the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the game features Buffy Summers, who fights vampires, demons, and other supernatural entities as the Slayer. The player controls Buffy through eight side-scrolling levels, and gameplay centers on one-on-one fights with vampires.

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Cartoon Network's Block Party (GBA)

The gameplay is similar to Nintendo's Mario Party video game series. Players can experience places from Cartoon Network shows in a board game style. They can also play up to 30 mini-games based on the Cartoon Network shows. Players can choose any of the Cartoon Network characters they like.

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Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 The Galaxy (GBC)

Earthworm Jim's evil doppelgänger, Evil Jim, has stolen an interdimensional teleporter and is causing a rampage through the galaxy. Jim must embark on yet another adventure to stop him. The game plays as a 2D sidescrolling platformer with run and gun elements, similar to the original games. However, the game is much more centralized towards exploring levels to collect items, rather than the constantly changing gimmicks present in the original two games. Levels typically involve goals such as collecting 100 or more coins to progress, and if Jim takes too much damage, the player must start the level over again, without any items collected.

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GBA: Codename KND: Operation Soda + Donkey Kong: King Of Swing + Dora The Explorer: Super Star Adventures + Ed Edd'n Eddy: The Misadventures + The Fairly OddParents: Shadow Showdown

Codename KND: Operation Soda

It is a dark time for kids worldwide. With the recent passing of the Soda Control Act, the drinking age of Soda has been raised to 13 years and older. The Kids Next Door have refused to recognize this dastardly attempt at prohibiting children from drinking their favorite beverage, and have taken it upon themselves to run a secret operation providing soda to any kid in the world who wants it...no questions asked.

Donkey Kong: King Of Swing 

In DK: King of Swing, gameplay is primarily based around the use of the L and R triggers, which control the player character's left and right hands respectively. By holding the trigger, the character's fist will clamp shut, grasping anything in its range. Pegs and pegboards are positioned throughout the environment for characters to grasp, allowing the player to climb and traverse their surroundings. Grasping a peg with the character's right or left hand will respectively cause them to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise around it, and the player must use their spinning momentum to propel them through the air. Both the triggers and the D-pad can be used to affect horizontal character movement while airborne or on the ground. Pressing both triggers simultaneously while grounded will cause the character to jump, while holding the triggers at any time will cause them to store up power, after which they will perform a charge attack when the triggers are released. This can be used to attack enemies and obstacles or cross short gaps. Players can also perform other tasks with their character's hands in combination with their spinning momentum, such as turning cranks, pulling levers, and throwing rocks at distant enemies.

Dora The Explorer: Super Star Adventures 

Dora the Explorer: Super Star Adventures is an adventure game for the Game Boy Advance released in 2004. It was developed by ImaginEngine and published by Global Star Software. The game uses pictures and symbols to communicate rather than words. The object of the game is to capture one of the six explorer stars. Each explorer star has a special power such as the ability to be noisy or the ability to create music. In order to capture it, the player must complete a hide-and-seek activity. These activities include maze navigation, matching games, side-scrolling race games, a Frogger-esque game, a complete the pattern activity and a song playing game.

Ed Edd'n Eddy: The Misadventures 

The game is divided into six main levels, each having its own separate plot. In the first level, "Cool Yer Ed", the Eds attempt to gather ice cubes to sell snow-cones in the hot summer weather. During the second level, "Pin the Tail on the Ed", the Eds sneak through a sewer system to crash Jimmy's birthday party. For the third level, "Must Be Something I Ed", the Eds race to the candy store, which is offering free jawbreakers as part of a customer appreciation event. The fourth level, "Ed on Arrival", features the Eds navigating through Rolf's construction zone obstacle course to achieve an Urban Ranger badge. In the fifth level, "Nightmare on Ed Street", the Eds venture into an abandoned house to retrieve Jimmy's stuffed animal. The game's sixth level, "Ed Marks the Spot", has the Eds scour the neighborhood for Eddy's stolen stash of jawbreakers.

Two bonus stages are available in the console and Windows versions of the game. In "Ed-Zilla", Ed takes on the role of a giant monster who destroys the cardboard city of Edtropolis. During "Rebel Robot Ranch", Edd and Eddy battle through an army of robots to rescue Ed, who has been captured.

The Fairly OddParents: Shadow Showdown 

The game starts with Timmy Turner being excited to see a new special season finale episode of one of his favorite shows--Crash Nebula—on TV. However, he finds that his TV stops working just as it premieres, and the only other time it can be seen is a day later when it reruns. 

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Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy (GBA)

Ten years in the future, Dan Phantom, Danny Phantom's evil older-self, confronts an adult Valerie and tears down Amity Park's ghost shield. In the Ghost Zone, the Observers take notice of the destruction and employ Clockwork, the Master of Time, to make sure Danny never becomes evil.

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GBA: Kim Possible 2: Drakken's Demise + Madagascar: Operation Penguin + Madagascar + Lizzie McGuire: On The Go! + Hello Kitty: Happy Party Pals

Kim Possible 2: Drakken's Demise 

The game is an action platformer with Kim Possible and Rufus as playable characters. There are five levels in each of the four episodes.

Madagascar: Operation Penguin 

The game loosely follows the penguin's side-plot from the film, as they attempt to escape from the Central Park Zoo. Players control Private throughout a variety of 2D platforming levels. Private obtains several gadgets and objects to assist him, including: a large frozen fish to attack, a fruit slingshot, a soda bottle jet pack, a straw blowpipe, and a hamburger wrapper parachute.

Madagascar 

Marty the zebra, Alex the lion, Gloria the Hippopotamus and Melman the Giraffe live in the Central Park Zoo in New York. On Marty's tenth birthday, Marty starts to have doubts that the zoo is where he belongs, and finds that life in the zoo is boring. That night, a penguin living in the zoo named Skipper decides to break out of the zoo, and invites Marty to come with him, and gives Marty directions on how to clear paths. Skipper, in order to escape himself, is forced to abandon Marty in the process, but gives him more directions. Marty manages to make it to the main exit and leave. Realizing this, Alex, Melman and Gloria decide to go and look for him. 

Lizzie McGuire: On The Go!

• When Cheerleaders Attack arcade game with more than 15 levels of action

• more than 20 games and activities to choose from

• pda function keeps track of friends contact information, important dates

• horoscopes and biorhythms

• music from the award-winning show

Hello Kitty: Happy Party Pals

The game features a main "Party Time" mode and a selection of 13 minigames known as Party Games. In Party Time mode, the player must play through multiple levels in which Hello Kitty will plan a party. The player can use a Journal with Select to view supplies gathered for the party and give party invitations to her friends and family; and performing certain actions such as giving food to characters may increase their happiness. The objective of the game is to keep everyone happy at the party.

After a level is cleared, the player will be given a password to continue their progress, which can be entered on the title screen.

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Hey Arnold! The Movie (GBA)

Just like the film's plot, Arnold and Gerald must save their neighborhood from an industrialist named Scheck, who wishes to demolish the area and build a mall in its place. The game consists of five worlds, each one containing four levels and one boss enemy. 

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Unreleased Cartoon Network Gameboy Game Titled Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Puffy Ami Yumi And The Manga Madman Surfaced The Net

A prototype of an unreleased Game Boy Advance game called Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Puffy Ami Yumi and the Manga Madman has recently been found and preserved by the preservation group Codebound.

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, in case you're unaware, was a Cartoon Network show that ran for three seasons between 2004 to 2006. It focused on the adventures of the best friends, Ami and Yumi, who were fictionalized characters based on the real Japanese pop rock group Puffy AmiYumi.

During its run, the show spawned two video games — Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Kaznapped! for Game Boy Advance and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Genie and the Amp for the Nintendo DS — but unbeknownst to fans, almost had another that was abandoned for unknown reasons.

As far as we're aware, the existence of the game only came to light last week when Codebound published a prototype build online, with the help of an online user named MrPinball64. It seems to have been in development at Altron following the release of Kaznapped! and focuses on the main characters exploring a bunch of different manga worlds using a copier machine (similar to in the Season 3 episode Manga Madness Part II).

The prototype build is labelled "Milestone 3" and is from early in development. It includes two selectable characters with various outfits to pick from, in addition to 3 worlds (Mystery, Adventure, and Mythology) to explore. These worlds contain 9 platforming levels and 3 bosses in total, but are all incomplete with combat and environmental interactions being unfinished.

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WWF Betrayal (GBC)

The game's plot was roughly based on a storyline in 1999 where Stephanie McMahon gets kidnapped. Her father Vince McMahon promises to grant the player a shot at the WWF Championship if they manage to save her. The player must then fight through a series of side-scrolling levels to rescue Stephanie. The player can play as Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Triple H , or The Undertaker.

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Samurai Jack: The Amulet Of Time (GBA)

The game follows Jack's quest through seven areas to obtain the elemental gem pieces of an amulet that can send him back to his own time. As more gemstones are collected, the player unlocks more of Jack's weapons and abilities, such as a super jump and a battle hammer.

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The Grinch (GBC)

The Grinch stares down at Whoville through his telescope from Mount Crumpit, planning to take the Whos' presents using his gadgets. He goes in his cave, and looks through his blueprints deciding which gadget to make first. However, the Grinch accidentally falls off his mountain of boxes and his blueprints fly away down to Whoville and various parts of Wholand. The Grinch visits Whoville, the Whoforest, Whoville Municipal Dump, and Wholake, destroying Christmas presents, playing pranks on the Whos and recovering pieces of his blueprints in the process so he can steal Christmas.

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Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Kaznapped! (GBA)

Ami and Yumi had just got back from a world tour concert and decide to take a break. Kaz asks them why they aren't making new songs, and Ami and Yumi respond by telling him they were tired. Then Harmony came walking in asking Ami and Yumi to play another concert and they again claimed they were tired. So Harmony hypnotizes Kaz and kidnaps him while Ami and Yumi were stuck to the ground by a giant lollipop that Harmony threw. Their cats, Jang Keng and Tekirai, come and lick them free and Ami and Yumi start a new journey to rescue Kaz.

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