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Ok, this one is only somewhat related to the Super Mario universe, but we have to talk about the time that Sega almost released a parking attendant arcade game starring Donkey Kong. A Donkey Kong Parking Attendant Arcade Game Developed by Sega Nintendo ultimately rejected the idea, but id continued to develop/alter the demo and eventually used the technology as the basis for Commander Keen. They even created a demo for the port which eventually got leaked online.

Inspired by the effort, id decided to formally pitch a Super Mario Bros. The story goes that id Software made an internal demo called Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement, which was basically a parody/recreation of Super Mario Bros. 3ĭid you ever feel like Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons was an odd detour for DOOM developer id Software? Well, it turns out the cult classic PC platformer began its life as a scrapped PC port of Super Mario Bros 3. It’s not entirely clear what happened to the game, but it sounds like it didn’t make it far into the pitch process (if it ever even got to that point). The spirit of that idea lives on in the lone surviving piece of concept art for the project that you see above. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is one of the Switch’s most surprising successes so far, but history tells us that the Ubisoft/Nintendo partnership almost took the form of a Mario/Rabbids crossover adventure game.ĭetails regarding this project are sparse, but it seems that Ubisoft hoped to develop a game starring Mario and the Rabbids which would have effectively served as a kind of parody of previous Super Mario titles.

A Mario/Rabbids Platforming Adventure Game 3 made by the DOOM team, these are 15 of the most fascinating Super Mario games that never happened. Why many of these projects are nothing more than pieces of obscure trivia (such as the Mario Kart game that Elon Musk wanted to install in Tesla vehicles), some of these canceled, rejected, and unreleased titles shine a light on what could have been.įrom volleyball wrestling games to a port of Super Mario Bros. What you may not know, though, is that there have actually been many Super Mario games over the years that were never released for one reason or another. In some ways, it’s actually seen as a “lost” Mario game by those who never found a reason to purchase what is arguably Nintendo’s worst console ever. Super Mario 3D World’s upcoming debut on Nintendo Switch is a major moment for many Mario fans who didn’t get the chance to play one of the best games in franchise history when it was released for Wii U.