Donkey Kong vs Super Wario

[Glowsquid]

Gregg Mayles is an employee of Rare, and the lead designer of the first two DKC game. For the past week, he's been posting super-early concept arts and design documents of Donkey Kong Country to his personal twitter. And just a few minutes ago, he dropped another pre-DKC concept NOBODY knew existed:

Right now, this is the only material he posted but there's asuredly going to be more to follow. The show's here!


So Wario Forums, how does this makes you feel?

 

[ShyGuyXXL]

But what's inside? WHAT'S INSIDE!?!?!?

 

[CM30]

Hopefully a game where Wario and DK beat the hell out of each other while trying to get the same mystical treasure or something.

Then again... Wario in Donkey Kong Country or DK in Wario Land? That'd be cool too!

 

[ZonicZoneCop]

OOOOOH BOY HERE WE GO.

 

[Yikes Spike]

Talking about Rare, didn't they made a Diddy Kong racing game but with planes? It was a scrapped project and included Wario.

 

[King Hehehe]

Wow. I never knew this was almost a thing. I now really want to know what this would've been like.

 

[ShyGuyXXL]

I'm gonna be so mad if he doesn't show what's inside. Seriously!

 

[AwesomeCauliflower68]

Talking about Rare, didn't they made a Diddy Kong racing game but with planes? It was a scrapped project and included Wario.

That was Diddy Kong Pilot. It eventually turned into Banjo Pilot after the buyout.

 

[Yikes Spike]

That was Diddy Kong Pilot. It eventually turned into Banjo Pilot after the buyout.

Found it, thanks.

 

[King Hehehe]

Dang it Microsoft, that was the perfect game to feature the Bulldog, too!

 

[CM30]

Yeah, Diddy Kong Pilot looked awesome. As did the 3D version of Banjo Pilot:

 

[Yikes Spike]

Found it, thanks.

It seems to be the second(?) time were a scrapped game involved Wario.

 

[Vampfox]

Interesting but I'm glad that it didn't happen. Wario Land and Donkey Kong Country are two of my favorite Nintendo series, and if Donkey Kong vs Super Wario had happen then we probably wouldn't have gotten DKC and WL.

 

[ChanceTime]

Is this the only time Wario has ever been referred to as 'Super'?

 

[Ashley]

did he post anything else afterwards? i'd really like to know

 

[King Hehehe]

Doesn't look like it, unfortunately. Come on, man! You can't just tease us like this!

 

[Glowsquid]

did he post anything else afterwards? i'd really like to know

No.

Right now Gregg Mayles posting DKC2 stuff for that game's 20th anniversary, so maybe he'll tell more when he runs out of material.

 

[Melluh]

Oh god imagine if its something with a completely unique mechanic that was never used? like the sort of thing that would spawn a whole franchise?
ITS OLD AND DEAD AND IM HYPED

 

[I.M.Gibbon]

This just further reinforces my belief that the city in Wario Land II is Big (Ape) City from DK'94 and DKLand. And fuck what I wouldn't give to get my hands on that voxel gba engine from the Banjo-Pilot beta.

 

[Glowsquid]

So Gregg Mayles didn't post more media of the binder as I thought he would, but two years later, he did (sorta) elaborate on the content of it. Here's what he had to say about a fan inquiry in 2017

Didn't get much beyond Wario and some kind of time machine as I recall.

Insert Kevin Sorbo expressing his dissapointment