Spot Goes to Hollywood (partially lost Super Nintendo port of platformer; 1995)

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Spot Goes to Hollywood SNES title screen.jpg

Title screen of the game.

Status: Found (Prototype)
Lost (ROM/Repro)

Date found: Unknown

Found by: Unknown

Spot Goes to Hollywood is a 1995 Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation platform video game released by Virgin Interactive. It is the sequel to the 1993 game Cool Spot. A SNES was also in development but was cancelled. According to a interview with the programmer Ed Margnin, Virgin didn't think that they could sell the minimums required for that version. He said that he completed the version.

Only two prototypes of the SNES version has been known to still exist: one is a early build that was found in 2014 (a forum is now very hard to find, this is just a memory) and a later build that seems to be incomplete (poor/missing enemy AI etc) has since found. Both of them had no intentions to released ROMs or reproductions of the version online.

References

http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/spot-goes-to-hollywood-snes-version.56226/ Assembler Games forum thread.

http://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/index.php?topic=5241.0 An interview with the programmer Ed Margnin.

http://www.snescentral.com/article.php?id=0142 SNES Central article.