The LOST Super Mario World Cartridge 

That is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!

It looks like it might be just a piece of ordinary paper which had the graphic printed onto it and was glued to the cartridge similar to the gold NWC carts. It's funny to think they had to take this photo before they even had the finished product in their hands! Thank you for watching and commenting. :)

@@TheGameDisplay Ya thats what I'm thinking and good point about the NWCs!

because its a hand made mockup, it's not edited

​@@TheGameDisplay Yeah I don't think it was "edited" in the way that you think.

And glued on! With Elmer's Glue! I bet Mr. Elmer glued it on himself... from his own goat.

That makes total sense! It's neat because it gives you a bit of insight into how things might have changed during development. I wonder why they ultimately went with the green text on top of the label instead of the graphical one. Thank you for watching and commenting! :)

haha, I guess when a game is sold from the beginning of a console's life right up to the end they have lots of opportunity to change things. Thank you for watching and commenting! :)

He didn't touch on the Player's Choice variant, or the fact that each of the MW-USA and MW-USA-1 cartridges have two different rear labels (one English, one English and French). And those are the ones I can confirm as a non-US collector. The cartridge with Yoshi's feet being behind the foreground is a Canadian thang, specifically the CAN-1 variant (haven't seen any other Canadian version to compare it to). The joys of being a variant collector :D

Haha, it's funny the hoops game companies tried to jump through back then in order to look one way or another. When it comes to the other obscure sets, in all my years of collecting I'm not sure that I've ever seen the Mario Set or KI Set! I have an All-Stars bonus bundle but I think we've talked before about how that came with SMW and All-Stars separately and not the combo cart. And you're right about the NES having a few bonus bundles as well. I've only ever seen and had the chance to pick up one of them! Nintendo really had no faith in North Americans, haha. The SNES here was designed with an un-even top to prevent people from setting their drinks on top of it which apparently led to countless spills and ruined NES consoles, although I bet people still tried and ruined their SNES consoles anyways, haha. Thank you for watching and commenting! :)

@@TheGameDisplay I sold my Control Set in 1994 to get the Mario Paint bonus bundle Super Set from Walmart (Black Friday deal). A year later my friend got the Killer Instinct Set with Walmart bonuses (Player’s Guide + ball cap) and had to exchange it since the X-Band didn’t recognize his copy. It turns out they were all KI v1.1 so we exchanged for a retail copy (worked!). I sold my Super Set in ‘96 to get a N64 and bought a Mario Set in ‘97 but I watched a lot of parents buying Mario Sets when Super Mario 64 was on display the previous holiday. Shoppers assumed SM64 was the Mario Set and bought that (no N64s in stock)! I swear: I’d stand there playing ~30mins and multiple parents would stop, watch, then toss a Mario Set in their cart. A few would ask if that was what I was playing making it clear what happened with the others. ;) Yeah, Mario Set definitely replaced Super Set until the redesigned SNS-101 Control Deck. Ahead of the Mario Set’s release, Super Sets were converted to equivalent bonus bundles with SMA*S like the one you mention. Similarly, there are some early standard N64s that got a boxed Atomic Purple controller bundled in a huge plastic clamshell since you couldn’t fit the extra controller in the older boxes.

@@emmettturner9452 That's super fascinating! Thank you for sharing all of that. I love stories of playing in the in-store kiosks from back then. I used to spend tons of time on them myself. My neck still hurts trying to reach the Virtual Boy one which they say you're supposed to be 7 years old or something before you play. Oh well. XD

i think they were worried about parents ripping the game out while kids were still playing which was probably common lol

@@phat-kid Definitely. Nintendo’s “Game Master” Howard Phillips or some other Nintendo insider confirmed with NintendoAge that it was to prevent inserting and removing with the power on which ran the risk of blowing a fuse and causing warranty expenses for Nintendo. He said the risk was very small, but that also means it didn’t take much potential liability to convince them to remove it and just deal with a fraction of a percent higher warranty returns. Whatever it was, they didn’t seem to have the same concern in Japan, Australia, or Europe. I like to think that they were worried about us being the only ones goofy enough to whack ourselves in the head with the entire console and sue. ;)

Yeah, they're called mock-ups.

I can't believe that even with the Super Set out there, they would create an SMW Bonus Bundle that only came with one controller! I hope you were still able to have lots of single player fun. Thank you for watching and commenting! :)

Thankfully, the SNES could detect how many controllers were plugged in for 2P alternating games with one controller. SMW and Super Mario All*Stars both supported this, though you were locked out of the SMB3 Battle Game.

Top labels really are great! So while not always the most elegant, I do appreciate that our SNES cartridges still have them. Then when it came to the N64 we were all in the same label-less boat. :P Thank you for watching! :)

Thank you so much for checking out the video! In addition to the DKC one, there was also a SMAS and Killer Instinct dedicated set. SNES Bonus Bundles consisting of those three main sets I introduced with stickers on the boxes were much, much more common though. You got a lot of cool things in the UK that we didn't get here! Another one that comes to mind is your N64 Pokemon Stadium Battle Set which came with a custom designed console and controller, unlike our Battle Set which just has the plain grey ones. Thank you again! :)

@@TheGameDisplay No worries bud, it was a really fascinating video!!! Oh yeah, I know that Pokémon N64, I bought an unboxed one years ago when they were going for pennies. But I am surprised there was no Street Fighter box, especially as it was a HUGE deal for Nintendo to get the exclusive on that, We had one for SFII and Turbo.

Thank you so much for watching! I have received exactly one other comment in the past showing appreciation for that song at the end. Always makes me happy to see when others know where it's from! :)

I'm super happy that you enjoyed the video! At the time we just wanted to play the games. Who was worried about a silly box! I feel the same way about Genesis games, haha. Or when the case is missing the manual. But those just weren't things we thought about back then! I really appreciate the comment and your kind words. :)

Thank you for watching! Fair enough. It doesn't change the fact that it's different from the retail version though. The main thing I wanted to do through this video was show everything something neat they might not know about. :)

Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I'm glad you found that fun fact interesting. :)

It was always neat trying different games and consoles that you didn't own at places like friend's houses or school! Thank you for watching and commenting! :)

Wow, great to see you again! Thank you for watching and commenting. :)

Haha, maybe if we're really lucky! Thank you for watching and commenting. :)

There was an SNES bonus bundle which included both a SMW cart and an All-Stars cart. There was also the Mario Set which included a SMAS + SMW combo cart. It sounds like you got one of those! Thank you for watching. :)

Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I love that SMAS + SMW combo cart. It is really interesting that they took such a different direction with the Super Nintendo boxes. I'm reminded that there were a couple of other Sets that popped up later in the SNES's life, one of which included that special SMAS cartridge. But overall the NES definitely stands out for just how much more variety there was bundle-wise!

It was brought to my attention that apparently that's how the Canadian variant of the cartridge looks! I'm not sure if it's rare but you certainly see it less than some other versions. Thank you for watching! :)

It's the Forest Maze theme from Super Mario RPG!

I'm really happy that you enjoyed it! :)

Heya! Are you following me on Twitch? I will be checking it out over there soon!

@@TheGameDisplay Hi. No, but I went there later and saw it. You were AWESOME! I made it somewhat like a troll with my brother, but if you were clever enough you could figure it out which you were very clever. Thank you. I had other levels if you clicked on my profile. I'm just glad you played one and I was able to see it.

@@TheGameDisplay I'm playing Mario Maker too on its last days. It was great watching you and listening because you have so much background information trivia on video games. You mentioned in your stream that you are playing with a Super Nintendo controller. How do you do that? I'm playing with a 3rd party Wii U pro controller and it has some problems. I would prefer the Super nintendo controller. I'm still going to play other games offline on the Wii U.

@@newgameaaaa If you have the SNES Classic mini console Nintendo released a few years back, you can plug that into a Wiimote and connect that to your Wii U! I'm glad you enjoyed seeing me play your level. :)

@@TheGameDisplay Oh. Yes I have the SNES classic mini console and I never tried that. I have either used the wiimote plugged in or the Pro controller plugged into the usb port. I guess I can press the sync button to make it work. I would prefer using a wired controller and not use batteries from the wiimote. Thanks.

I really appreciate that! Thank you for watching and commenting. :)

He's talking almost entirely about the hardware itself. Since you are going for maximum pedantry--the design featured on the box is still technically lost. There's no need to write a thesis and throw in your own off-topic thoughts lmao

That's true! The black box NES labels are quite similar to the plain labels Nintendo used for their SNES games. Thank you for watching and commenting! :)