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A South Park videogame was planned for the GameBoy Color and was in development at Acclaim studios in 1998, but sadly the project was soon cancelled by the shows creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone due to them feeling that the game isn’t right for the Game Boy Color as children were the main demographic for the system. There are not many info on this game and only a single screenshot was published in an old Nintendo Power magazine (issue 114). The prototype cartridge now belongs to Trey and Matt, commemorating the very first South Park game ever created.
It seems that after the South Park game was cancelled Acclaim didn’t want all their investment in the project to go to waste so it was changed to Maya the Bee and published in Europe. After a little more tweaking it also became the New Adventures of Mary Kate & Ashley and published in the US. If you check videos of these 2 games, you can see that the HUD is basically the same, the platforms and the ladders are similar
If you worked on this game and have some more info or screens on the project, please let us know!
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Videos from “Mary Kate & Ashley” for the GBC:
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16 Responses to South Park [GBC - Cancelled]
LiamRproductions
May 20th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Wth… south park owns
Captain N
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:55 am
Is there anywhere on the internet where you can download roms of these cancelled games..?
monokoma
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
For some cancelled games we are lucky enought and collectors or developers understand that it was important to share this kind of material for everyone, because they are gaming history that could be lost forever.. and so various playable cancelled games are leaked online. To find them, google is your friend. Sadly, most of the cancelled games that are in the U64 Archive are not leaked yet.. and probably they will be lost forever :(
atomickid
March 29th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
look at the graphics and the status bar, it’s like maya the bee on GBC.
I had this game long time ago :o
Anonymous
July 21st, 2010 at 4:41 am
The reason it was canceled by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators, because they didn’t want a Game Boy Color version of the South Park game made since they felt the game was not for kids. But they did keep a few copies of the Game Boy Color in comemorant of what was originally started as the first South Park game.
stud102
July 21st, 2010 at 4:41 am
The reason it was canceled by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators, because they didn’t want a Game Boy Color version of the South Park game made since they felt the game was not for kids. But they did keep a few copies of the Game Boy Color in comemorant of what was originally started as the first South Park game
monokoma
July 21st, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Interesting, do you have any source for the info stud102?
MamaLuigiBarrelRoll
August 1st, 2010 at 7:37 pm
The last “anonymous” person to post got what he said from Wikipedia.
rodent
August 2nd, 2010 at 2:39 pm
The reason given is true. The game was also only days from being submitted to Nintendo as a final build. It featured some nice little animated scenes and some digitised speech from the show as well.
monokoma
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:58 am
Thanks for the confirmation Rodent, do you know if it could be possible to find more screens or videos from this lost game?
rodent
August 3rd, 2010 at 9:52 pm
It’s possible I may have a rom of it somewhere, I’ll have a hunt through my archives. Atomickid is right. After the game was cancelled Acclaim didn’t want all their investment in the project to go to waste so it was changed to Maya the Bee and published in Europe. After a little more tweaking it also became the New Adventures of Mary Kate & Ashley and published in the US. I liked it better when it was South Park.
monokoma
August 4th, 2010 at 11:37 am
From South Park to Maya the Bee? That’s a real twist :O
Here’s a video from Maya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb5HCYAsgFQ
The HUD is basically the same, the platforms and the ladders are similar
Here’s a video from Mary Kate & Ashley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOjQcPqz4KM
Again, the HUD is the same, there are similar ladders and platforms
Thanks again for the info Rodent! Really appreciated :) If you’ll be able to take some screens or videos from the South Park version, it would be great!
charlie66
August 13th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
matt and trey cancaled this game because they felt it wasnt for younger audiences. at south park studios they still keep a few copies.
rodent
August 15th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
The thing I couldn’t quite work out was why the project was allowed to go almost to the end before it was cancelled??? I mean neither the GBC user base nor the demographic that South Park was intended for changed over the duration of the project, and the project stuck pretty much to the same design all the way through, so why wait right until the end before deciding that?
David
August 14th, 2011 at 8:53 am
I ran a website about South Park games for a while, hosted at a website called N64 Shooters back in 1999 if not earlier. My website was called “South Park Gaming Central” and later changed names to the “South Park Penny Arcade.”
I scanned that screenshot from Nintendo Power for my website. Glad to see it still exists on the internet over a decade later.
A MUTHA GRUMP
November 19th, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Seven asses.