Mandela Effect? Unreleased SNES Games from Bobby's World to Batman

Sometimes video games are made and, for whatever reason, they're never released. Here's a look at several Super Nintendo games that never officially came out.
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[@JohnRiggs]

Buy my stuff! johnriggs.myshopify.com/ I make my own video games, wrote my own cereal book, and even have an air freshener that smells like 1980s Arcade.

[@michaelhake2291]

Serial?

[@marbles8641]

According to every website, Bobby's World DID come out, and was even reviewed by GamePro and EGM. The Genesis and PS1 versions however, were never released.

[@marbles8641]

I swear Congo was released as well. The reason Congo was so over hyped at the time was due to sharing the same author as Jurassic Park. They were hoping lightning would strike twice.

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

Shadowhawk is based on the Shadowhawk comic from Image comics and it was incredibly popular during the early 90's, many times being a top 10 sold comic on the sales charts (sometimes even the # 1 most sold comic). It's a very hard PG-13 comic (almost rated R at times) about a superhero who breaks the spines of criminals (he breaks spines, criminals can't walk again). As for Prime, his comic came out during 1993 from Malibu comics under it's Ultraverse line of comics and for a short while his comic was very popular, doing extremely well on the sales charts. Malibu got acquired by Marvel comics a few short years later and started publishing the Ultraverse characters like Prime. However, a lot of behind the scenes chaos led to Marvel being forced to throw all the Ultraverse characters like Prime in a permanent vault (let's just say they owe royalties to many of the Malibu creators) and they won't ever use them again.

[@AndSaveAsManyAsYouCan]

If you had an Air Freshner that smelled like 1980's YOU, then maybe I'd buy it.

[@DaBigCheeso]

Bobby's World was being advertised EVERYWHERE in magazines and comics for months. I assumed it came out too.

[@BDBD16]

This has to be it. As soon as I saw it I was like IVE PLAYED THAT!!

[@alexkanavos6470]

I know there's a ROM now, but I thought I rented it back in the day. I guess I was wrong.

[@heathenkeichi]

I remember seeing it at Blockbuster for rent, thinking who is going to play that

[@timpize8733]

If it's a Mandela effect I have the opposite one: I've literally never heard of it.

[@nathanieltovar5171]

I played the rom

[@nathanbeach7301]

IT'S THE HOWIE MANDELA EFFECT!!! Also Prime and Shadowawk were comic books, yes!

[@cubansupreme]

4:42 Yeah about Congo having a video game, there is a Sega Saturn exclusive first person shooter game based on Congo called Congo the Movie: The Lost City of Zinj.

[@n64fan60]

0:00 Intro 0:18 Batman 0:45 Batman Revenge of the Joker 1:12 Metal Jack 1:43 Bobby's World 2:40 The Shadow 3:19 Super Baseball Simulator 1000 2 3:57 Atmosfear 4:42 Congo The Movie 5:16 Eurit 5:37 Steven Seagal is the Final Option 6:08 Lobo 6:21 Prime 6:36 Shadowhawk 7:18 SpellCraft 7:45 Arcus Spirits 8:16 Global Gladiators 8:26 Tarzan Lord of the Jungle 8:51 Mickey's Playtown Adventure 9:09 Barbie Vacation Adventure 9:33 Outro

[@monitorinc9482]

Thank you 👍

[@MarMaxGaming]

Good work

[@Henners]

Bobby's World was finished and never released, but it was reviewed and probably shown as coming soon in places. Fun fact: The founder of Running with Scissors, the creators of Postal, worked on Bobby's World before founding RWS

[@totallycolecash]

Shadowhawk was an Image comics character from the early 90s that didn’t quite have the same success that a lot of other Image comics had from around that time. I believe he was technically a Malibu comics character initially so it somewhat makes sense that there were almost Shadowhawk and Prime games since they both would have been affiliated with Malibu Comics.

[@StephanieJude-re2xb]

No ShadowHawk had nothing to Malibu Comics. Malibu was just publisher of Record for Image in its founding days. ShadowHawk is a creator owned property by Jim Valentino and Shadowline his studio from the Image Umbrella. He was one of the founding fathers. But he also wasn't that large even prior to Image. His biggest work at Marvel was 90s Guardians Of The Galaxy prior to 92 and the forming of Image.

[@Leemadeema]

Fun Fact, in the UK the VHS version of Nightmare was actually called "Atmosfear" and had a whole bunch of add-on packs and editions!

[@endymallorn]

I had a copy of Atmosfear!

[@NeoSamus]

The US also had atmosfear. I used to own it when I was a kid! That game was so much fun! Nightmare was the sequel, I believe. 😊

[@HB-mj2jz]

In the Netherlands as well. Later they released a dvd version of it that i still own :)

[@gustavosanchez2000]

In my childhood, in the 80s, I was sure I had rented an Atari game here in Brazil with Donald Duck riding a boat. In adult life I discovered that it was a prototype that was never released, but that it existed here on pirated cartridges.

[@streetmagik3105]

Prime was a 90s comic from Malibu--part of a brand called Ultraverse, i think. Shadowhawk was an Image comic from Jim Valentino. He debuted in Rob Liefeld's Youngblood series.

[@Demonstryke13]

Prime was kind of like Capt. Marvel from DC Comics, he was published by Malibu Comics under their Ultraverse imprint, but I think someone already mentioned that. I didn't know there was a Super Nintendo port of the game, I remembered there being a Sega CD one though. Shadowhawk was published by Image Comics in the 90s, created by Jim Valentino. I saw footage of this game at some point in the past and thought it looked pretty cool. Really a lot of these games looked pretty cool, while others were...well, they were something. Really fun video as always!!!

[@joeyisabsb1]

Bobby's World: The Howie Mandala Effect.

[@MrJWTH]

Metal Jack was in fact an anime named Armored Police Metal Jack, also, only the North American localization was cancelled with the original Japanese version actually being released.

[@joshjohnson6891]

I too thought Bobby's World had a video game. It would have come out during the time when like every cartoon had a game, so thought it got lost in the mix 😂

[@FaithFallRepentGraceRepeat]

I know for sure Bobby’s World had advertisements in GamePro, Nintendo Power, etc. I thought they had it for rent in Blockbuster but my memory is a little fuzzy because there were so many games for rent.

[@LuckyBird551]

Personally, I think that the strangest videogame for Super NES that was never released is "Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill" a game based on Bill Clinton's cat.

[@TheDuckofLaw]

I loved the Bobby's World cartoon back in the day, but I couldn't tell you much about it nowadays. Like Aaah! Real Monsters, I assumed there was a videogame for Bobby's World.

[@SullySadface]

There were a couple Aaah! games. I played one on Sega Channel

[@forrestredd2706]

Don't feel bad, Riggs, I specifically remember the Bobby's World game as well. But, I also remember the California Raisin's game for the NES, that people keep saying was never released. I even remember exactly which rental place in my town had it. It was a little pizza shop that also rented movies and games and they had it. But whatever, we aren't in another universe, or something. I dunno. (But we totally are).

[@robintst]

Okay, the Mandela Effect hit me too, I SWEAR that Bobby's World game came out and I saw it a couple video stores in town.

[@MarMaxGaming]

Maybe it was Snoopy or somethin?

[@carlos-vp7df]

i swear i saw the tooth fairy in my sons room this morning and i don't have any kids

[@midas1108]

The amount of marketing Congo got was a bit expected. It was based on a Michael Crichton book, so coming just a couple of years after Jurassic Park they figured anything with his name attached would make big dollars. It didn't do too badly, but I don't think there were many people flocking to the theater for repeat viewings.

[@evenoddprime]

Mickey: "How old are you?" Riggs: "Please, God. Noooo..."

[@forcedfeedbackclassicgamer5499]

Bobby's World apparently did release in PAL territories... "Eurit" = "You're It"

[@JohnRiggs]

oh.. duh. Eurit makes so much sense.

[@griloleatherface]

The Shadow was a complete game (actually it was pretty good), i had a bootleg SNES cart of it around early 2000s. In south america we had a lot of bootlegs and hacked games like sports games with local teams. I Just found out that the shadow never came to the SNES officially many years later.

[@MarMaxGaming]

Looks legit !

[@_OCPGAMING]

According to Wikipedia, the SEGA Genesis version wasn't released. It says nothing about the SNES port not being released. So you probably did see this game.

[@TheLastLineLive]

I never knew the Bobby’s World game wasn’t a released game until after I played it and did a let’s play. It actually was pretty decent albeit short, so I’m gonna guess it was a licensing issue rather than quality issue.

[@jamesmiller206]

Could be, the also unreleased gameboy version of bobbys world was originally a home alone 2 game so its possible it was unreleased because the license expired and the developer couldn't find a fitting alternative license.

[@marbles8641]

Yet, GamePro and EGM reviewed it and most sites say it was released in 94.

[@TheLastLineLive]

@@marbles8641 yeah they probably got preview copies sent out a couple months before then things went into turmoil between then and production.

[@Moondancin]

Tom & Jerry : The Chase Is On Is a fun “unreleased” SNES game

[@StreetFighterObsessed]

Killer Instinct 2 was supposed to come out on the SNES. In fact it was completely finished but Nintendo decided to not release it. It later came out as Killer Instinct Gold on N64

[@retrojoe85]

As a Lobo fan, I would have loved that game: the Killer Instinct style fits the character perfectly. Never heard of Metal Jack, it's so cool that could have been my favourite game back in the day!

[@DoctorPretorious616]

Prime was a comic book published by Malibu Comics under its Ultraverse imprint and shared universe of characters, which was briefly popular in the 1990s, it followed an adolescent boy who could transform into a superhero named Prime, similar to Shazam. The Ultraverse imprint was acquired by Marvel when they bought Malibu and occasionally had them crossover with their characters, Marvel ended up cancelling the Ultraverse titles in 1996.

[@joshmorth]

According to Wikipedia, Bobby's World was released for the SNES. It was developed for the Genesis, but not released. Other sources say that it was never released. Perhaps it's Bebe's Kids you saw at the rental store?

[@chanceallen3586]

I remember the early Steven Segal movies. They were actually really good! My 2 faves were 'Above the Law' and 'Under Siege'. Nowadays however, I just can't watch them. Knowing what has become of crazy Steve, is kinda like a video game spoiler. You enjoy the game, but once you know how bad the ending is, you just can't play anymore

[@shaunswanson643]

I had the same exact feeling as you….they had a Bobby’s world game on the shelf when I grew up at the blockbuster I used to go…but never saw the game available for rent….I knew it was truuuue!

[@DoctorPretorious616]

Shadowhawk was another indie comics character from the early 1990s published by Image, created, written, drawn and owned by Jim Valentino. He was a masked vigilante anti-hero who would punish by breaking their spines and crippling them (brutal, man...). The biggest surrounding the character was that in his first two mini-series his secret identity was left unrevealed, with readers given clues to figure the mystery themselves, until in his second mini-series he was revealed to be Paul Johnstone, an African-American former district attorney who was HIV+. After the identity was revealed, the mystery was gone and much the hype surrounding the character had dissipated.

[@shawnzalewski6861]

said it before and let's say it again The 90s were wild... "Steven Seagal IS: The Final Option" "Mickey's Playtown Adventure: A Day of Discovery"

[@BlackMoore82]

ShadowHawk's a comic book character who made his first appearance in 1992. Published by Image and created by former Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Silver Surfer writer Jim Valentino.

[@jasonmccrank4981]

Congo was heavily hyped because it was based on a Michael Crichton novel, and Jurassic Park mania was still very much a thing in 1995.

[@timcombs2730]

….failed video game from a guy who called them “hula hoops of the 80s” 🤣

[@JMann0614]

Apes with lasers😂

[@ultramaximusreviews]

There was a Bobby's World computer game there's a LOT of Bobby's World SNES cartridges out for sale for like $10 out there but I guess it could be a home brew. Congo was a HUGE movie in the 90s - the static at the beginning is the opening scene of the game. Yes, Prime was a comic book. from Image Comics. Shadow Hawk was also an Image Comic in the 90s.

[@andressigalat602]

Prime was not from Image, it was from Malibu, part of their Ultraverse line. Your confusion may come from Malibu being the company that published the Image comics at the very begining, but then the Image creators decided to take their comics from Malibu and create their own company. Malibu then decided to create their own universe to fill the gap Image left, and the Ultraverse was born. A pretty interesting universe, writer-based instead of artist-based like Image, so the characters and stories were a lot more interesting.

[@jacobprice8048]

I was a huuuuuge Bobby's World fan. I would have definitely known if there was a video game

[@JMann0614]

I LOVED The Shadow movie as a kid... man that brings me back

[@zooropa04]

I definitely have the Mandela Effect with The Shadow for SNES. I could have sworn I saw that one out in the wild once upon a time.

[@JohnRiggs]

SAME!

[@zooropa04]

Like, were there previews in gaming magazines or something? I know that sometimes happened with games that ended up not being released (like the 3DO Star Trek: The Next Generation game that EGM once previewed, with screenshots!)@@JohnRiggs

[@noteptp]

I never see Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 get mentioned, so it's great that it gets a shout out here! Love that game and I agree that it's the best baseball game from that era! I gotta check out the unreleased sequel.

[@adamkane7513]

Great video, *JR.* A few of those games looked really solid. Shame they never came out.

[@R82TV]

Really enjoyed this. Great work

[@MNATrevor]

I played that Bobby’s World game. I know the PS1 version is unreleased. But the SNES version came out in 1994

[@michaelhake2291]

I do have Star Ocean for SNES translated from Japanese so that does exist. I loved Star Control 2 for 3DO (yes I had one) and there was supposed to be a third one called StarCon but it got cancelled.

[@jsmith3946]

that's because the game got a fan translation years ago so ether you download that rom or bought the cart that had the fan translated rom on it

[@GreyHulk2156]

It’s “Mandela effect” because people remember Nelson Mandela dying in jail - which he didn’t. The “Mandala effect” is when you remember seeing a complex pattern that didn’t exist. ;P

[@ittylink]

I remember seeing Bobby's World in game listings, multiple sources says it was released for Snes but canceled for everything else.

[@kenisu3000]

Considering it's Bobby's World, wouldn't that be the Howie Mandel-a Effect?

[@claytonbeeney]

THE HOWIE MANDELLA EFFECT

[@TangoWithTheCobra]

3:56 Nightmare is amazing. I found a complete copy at Goodwill about six years ago for $2.

[@jqwright28]

I feel like I've seen that Bobby's World game in the wild, too.I remember that sprite from articles but I can almost picture the box art from the rental store in my head. Are we sure that it didn't get distributed as a bootleg or something?

[@nelsoncabrera6464]

I distinctly remember playing Bobby's World in one of those SNES demo kiosks! I can't remember if it was at a store or maybe at a Blockbuster's. I wonder if it is possible a short demo of the unfinished game had been sent out as a sort of market test.

[@alanfike]

If I saw a Bobby's World video game back in the day, it might've been an ad, but I only remember the cartoon series. I don't remember actually seeing such a video game.

[@andressigalat602]

Prime was a character from the Ultraverse published by Malibu Comics, it was Malibu's take on the Shazam/Captain Marvel idea of "young boy transforms into an adult superhero", it was pretty interesting despite its derivative nature. Marvel Comics bought Malibu in the late nineties, so they probably own all its characters, but they haven't done anything with the Ultraverse characters in all those years, I guess because something about owing royalties to the original creators.

[@ldrelick]

The Journey Home: Quest For The Throne (a US release of Neugier) was one of the more interesting ones.

[@Turbo187KillerB]

Howie Mandel effect. Also the poster was from Nintendo Power! They always had two sided posters. My room was absolutely PLASTERED with them!

[@FlyingDuckMan360]

I have a reproduction cartridge of the Bobby's World SNES game. I even have a video about it on my channel. "Remember Bobby's World? It was a good show! You're too young to remember. It was a good show!" Perhaps you might have seen a Bobby's World VHS tape at the video rental store.

[@javaly78]

As far as Bobby’s world being on the rental shelf, I want to agree with you that I could’ve sworn I had seen it, but I’m thinking back maybe it was Cool World

[@andressigalat602]

Be careful with that Tarzan video game. The older Tarzan novels may be in the public domain, but the character itself is still under trademark (at least in the U.S.), and Burroughs state is happy to sue anyone who tries to use it without a license.

[@SamFey]

Fair use policy would apply as it's part of a retrospective review.

[@MotherKojiro]

I think I'm feeling the Mandel Effect (I had to), as well, because I can't swear to it, but I feel like I've seen the Bobby's World game somewhere, too.

[@KenzenCrese]

This is cool, love seeing all of these prototypes

[@skylinefever]

I think about how many games go unreleased because the prototype came out, and it sucked so hard that the people gave up. Obviously that isn't all the cases. Some games didn't come out because Nintendo would limit how many games a company could release over a certain time period. In the NES days, Konami created "Ultra Games" so that the Konami company could sell more video games in one year by a technicality. In Europe, they created "Palcom" and did the same trick. There was an NES Robocop VS the Terminator game that was completed. It may not have been really impressive, but it certainly looked like it would have sold profitably. It had no significant bugs, controls were okay, graphics were okay, and sound was okay. It might not win an award, but people would at least rent one from Blockbuster for a weekend. 6:59 Something similar happenned for the NES. Sunsoft lost the rights to Superman. They created Sunman, but Sunman could do anything Superman could do. Also, I think some of the villains were chnaged a little.

[@catholicactionbibleonlyist1813]

You forgot Puggsy, it was supposed to have a Super NES port, have the game Only know of a Bobby's world video game a few months ago,barely remember the show, mostly remember the opening credits

[@PreachersKid420]

I remember Blockbuster would have game boxes of new upcoming games on the shelves sometimes. Maybe they had the box art finished for Bobby’s World and it was there. Cause I also seem to remember seeing that as a kid

[@sdevine182]

I love these type videos! I wish we got that The Shadow game, bobbys world !!!

[@misanthrope22]

06:23 Prime was a superhero from Malibu Comics Ultraverse, there was even a cartoon series. The whole thing was purchased by Marvel, merged, & I believe because of contracts, shelved indefinitely. 06:37 ShadowHawk was an Image comic by Jim Valentino. Batman-esque, but far more violent - his go-to move was to break the spine of his victim & leave them paralyzed.

[@ibrohiem]

It could be a a combination of games never officially releasing for retail but got released for rental shops only. I believe Final Fight Guy was a rental release only at Blockbuster. My guess is they were contractually were on the hook to release the game but got cold feet so they just released a limited amount to rental shops.

[@Tayra_Reberta]

There apparently was a Bobby's World released for the SNES in December 31, 1994 developed by Hi Tech Entertainment

[@88lamborghini]

Funny you mentioned Bobby's world , I swear for real I saw that game Also on the rental shop shelves ....

[@megadan2988]

good video riggs!

[@lordlycanthrope7059]

Shadowhawk was an Image comic if I recall correctly. It's pretty brutal.

[@martineastman9855]

I swear that I absolutely remember there being a Bobby's World SNES game

[@pjdolont9012]

I forget who did the mock up of a Fraser SNES game where you play as Eddie the dog and you have to sneek in and out of the apartment to complete missions and help out the gang....

[@jcdoors1978]

Dude I swear I saw that Bobby's World back in the day And Spirting News Baseball is an awesome SNES baseball game. You can play in the Field of Dreams cornfield. I repurchased it at the Pitt Expo last month

[@thetechn1que518]

I’m fairly certain that Tarzan isn’t public domain, or at least it wasn’t in not too distant past. Taito made an arcade game in 1982 called Jungle King that they later re-skinned with an explorer character called Jungle Hunt. I had heard the Burroughs estate made them change the game so it wasn’t a blatant Tarzan ripoff.

[@WhateverHappenedToGaryCooper]

0:35 that looks like The Twin Towers in the background too. Not that it was cancelled because of that, as 9/11 was years away but it’s just interesting seeing it

[@jeffersonhouse94]

Lobo, Prime, Prime, and Shadowhawk were all indeed comic books published in the 90s

[@triplestar100]

just to inform: ShadowHawk was based off an early Image Comics line by Jim Valentino... maybe it was like you said that the devs tried to shop a Spider-Man game to Marvel, The Big M turned it down but either Image or just Mr. Valentino saw it, liked it and negotiations were made to make it the SH game... that sadly never was! also; an unreleased prototype that I was hoping to see here (which was like 99.5% done before scrapping and I happen to have the ROM in my emulation collection) is "Super Shadow Of The Beast" by Psygnosys and intended to be published by IGS! anyways, cheers from The Bronx!

[@JohnRiggs]

that works!

[@RetroGamePlayers]

Great list! I really dig Lobo, so I am partial to that one lol

[@toofox1378]

Hey Riggs I checked the super Nintendo version of Bobby's world did came out in 1994

[@kuruptein]

You have the black snes multicart with the LED lights that lights up? Just wondering becausr alot of these games are on there and ive played them

[@gamecheaterz]

John I'm for sure thought we had Bobby's World I remember seeing it

[@Alucard1191]

I remember the board game "atmosphere" that came with a VHS tape.

[@nomadofnuketown]

I'm fairly sure I saw Bobby's World on a shelf at Blockbuster back in the day.

[@metalmovies]

PRIME was a Malibu comic originally. I know this because I ended up picking up one of the early issues as a kid. Not bad at all!

[@WavesNGames]

I played through Bobby's World on stream one time and was so confused as to when it came out. Now i know my emulator has prototypes on it.

[@erneststackhouse1133]

U unlock this console with the key of your imagination. Your traveling through another dimension of sight & sound, but did they exist? A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. There is a signpost up ahead. Your next stop...The SNES Zone!

[@meredosiaquest]

great video! I definitely remember seeing screenshots for The Shadow game in progress, but I never followed its progress since it seemed like one of many boring super hero beat 'em ups of the time.

[@themcadamsminute8494]

Bobby’s world was at rental shops. I remember seeing it

[@JohnRiggs]

so do I, or want to say I did. And, if it did, that means we would ahve seen the SNES carts by now like Final Fight Guy. Alas, never did.

[@themcadamsminute8494]

@@JohnRiggs The box art on the cartridge was Bobby on his big wheel smiling back at us. This was a real thing lol. You’re not crazy. There was also box art with him smiling with a cloud above his head saying Bobby’s World.

[@zacholdgames]

Awesome video

[@jpistle]

I swear I saw the Bobby’s world video game too.

[@Sinn0100]

Mandela Effect....you got me. This has happened to me so many times it's nuts.

[@paulcanniff4308]

the U.S. version of Undercover Cops for the SNES was never officially released however what's strange is that I rented it from the video store back in 1994, so a U.S. version does exist, it's just extremely rare because only a few copies were leaked out.

[@davidbales6355]

Shadowhawk and Prime were comic characters from a line called Ultraverse.

[@bok3rnes425]

2:49 The Shadow basically like Zorro doing barehanded fight 👍👍👍

[@lostworldvideogames]

I swore I rented Bobby’s World too!!

[@calebdragovar3472]

Prime was part of the now defunct Ultraverse from the early 90s. Look it up and you'll understand why it didn't last lol

[@Dorelaxen]

Much like Bobby's World for you, I SWEAR I saw Lobo for sale at Wal-Mart in late 1996.

[@MikeDest]

I'm right with you on the Bobby's World thing. I feel like I saw it for rental and saw a commercial for it where Bobby sound clips were commenting on the game clips.

[@Cheeselord83]

The Shadow looked great. Very similar to Streets of Rage. Why they would cancel it is beyond me.

[@seanrussell6801]

I finally figured out why I love listening to your channel. Pillsbury dough boy. You hehe or hoohoo all the time!