Smell 'Ya Earlier

If you remember Punky Skunk (and you probably don't, since there was very little about this platformer worth remembering), you may have heard that the game was originally planned for the Super NES before it migrated to the Playstation. Thanks to the efforts of game preservationists Kelsey Lewin, Cauterize, and the ever diligent Frank Cifaldi, now we have that early version of the game, titled Cooly Skunk. You can download the game from Gaming Alexandria... however, it's tricky to get running on emulators, with ZSNES refusing it outright. If you just want to watch a little footage of Cooly Skunk in action, you can check it out here.

While the game was modestly improved on the Playstation, with more colorful, less tile-heavy backgrounds, it feels more at home on a previous generation console, where mascot platformers were all the rage. Also, it's worth noting that while you can only play the first three levels of the game, all the assets for Cooly Skunk are in the ROM, and it's conceivable that it could be hacked in the future to make it playable from start to finish. If you wanted that. I did mention there were a ton of games like this on the Super NES and Genesis, right?