Wrestleyball...?
An abundance of information has been uncovered regarding a cancelled Mario project, titled Super Mario Spikers.
According to unseen64,
Super Mario Spikers was a wrestling/volleyball hybrid, with a hint of
TV game show. The game was reportedly in development for the Nintendo
Wii at Next Level Games towards the end of 2006. Unseen64 was able to
uncover various pieces of concept art, as well as a short clip of
animations from the game, which you can see below.
According to the report, the game started off simply as Mario
Volleyball. As development on the game progressed, wrestling mechanics
were added and it was renamed Super Mario Spikers -- a play on the title
of the studio's previous game, Super Mario Strikers
Work on Mario Spikers was reportedly stopped sometime in 2007 after a
failed pitch to Nintendo. A former artist at Next Level Games said that
the game was only financed in the first place as a reward for the
studio's success with Super Mario Strikers Charged.
Next Level Games has since gone on to make a number of games, including Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon.
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