Game packaging/manuals with beta screens

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Game packaging/manuals with beta screens; What were you thoughts back then?
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J-R	Sep 28 2013, 05:00 PM Post #1
Crossover guru Posts: 1,145 Group: Members Member #3,708 Joined: Apr 11, 2011	I remember back when I was young and I had Sonic 2. After playing it for so long, I eventually found something in the back of the boxart. http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/3/4/3/563343_45480_back.jpg If you look at the third screenshot, you will see that there is a grey disk. This is a switch to activate something in the stage. However, in the actually game, this switch is not there. In it's place is a red spring. I always wondered why the boxart showed that area with a switch rather than the red spring that was in the actual game. Nowadays, we all know that they are beta screens that were made before the game was released, but back then, we had no way of knowing that. And that's what this discussion is all about. Retell you recollections of seeing a beta screen somewhere, whether it was in game art, manuals, magazines, wherever, that made you scratch your head as to why it was there, or if you actually believed it was a brand new level of some sort.



Lavitz	Sep 28 2013, 05:37 PM Post #2
GUST OF WIND DANCE! Posts: 286 Group: Members Member #5,007 Joined: Apr 25, 2012	On the back of Twilight Princess on Wii there's a screenshot with a magic bar, that's the only thing I can think of



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