Because this game is serious business and important.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov8A5tz8MU0

Originally found on Nico Nico Douga titled, ファミマガVideo創刊9月号 (Famimaga Video September), I stumbled upon this while searching for media on Mother 3 for my Shat-Canned Legends Documentary.

The video shows the various differences of this early version to the final that my annotations go over. For one, none of the levels are recognizable (except perhaps one particular part), and the HUD is different.

Very interesting stuff, especially upon seeing that these 80s Japanese game videos are from a completely different, and simpler era.

Original URL: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13196307. Because I don't want to take all credit for this, as the video was originally uploaded and found on Nico Nico Douga. I just wanted to spread this video to the western hemisphere. Enjoy.

This is cool...
There's so many prototypes out there that I'd like to play...
Mother 1/2/3 protos, Super Mario Bros.1/3/World protos, MegaMan Zero 2/3/4 protos...
Thanks for the video, really interesting. And I'm looking forward to your Shat-Canned Legends Documentary!!

I remember once seeing a Chrono trigger proto and it had windmills in it O.o also to get the EB64 proto would be like finding the holy grail to EB fans...

That was really cool, its always neat to see how a game changes durring the developement. You would think that with mario being so popular and everything you'd actually see more proto stuff out there.