Rayman is a video game designed and published by Ubisoft. It was originally released in September 1995 for the Atari Jaguar and MS-DOS, and in November 1995 for the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn. A port of this game was to be released for the Sega 32X, but when the system died off due to low popularity, the port was canceled. Rayman is a traditional side-scrolling platform game which revolves around the titular character’s quest to save his world from the evil Mr. Dark.
Early in its development, Rayman was going to be about an eleven-year-old boy named Jimmy. Jimmy takes advantage of the realms that he discovers within his computer to create a fantasy world called Hereitscool. When evil invades Hereitscool, Jimmy turns into a superhero named Rayman to save Hereitscool. This idea was scrapped, and Rayman is his own being in his own world in the final version. There were a few comments in the story, such as “Sorry folks, this apparently can’t last. Do you want to play or what?”, but they were cut for the final version.
[Info from Wikipedia]
In these old screens from the back of the box from the Jaguar version, we can see some beta-differences.
beta rayman video: there is no sound and also the life icons are different. The life is in the top middle along with 8 life dots and instead of the orbs count you have a blue guys count but in the final version life count is in top left at the edge of the screen and the blue orbs in the top right rayman can also walk on his hands in this video (not sure about the final version).
Thanks to The_IT_08 and kieranmay for the contributions!
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8 Responses to Rayman [PSX/Saturn/Jaguar - Beta]
Pencoin
August 8th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
You can’t trust wikipedia. There never was this ‘jmmy’ idea it was rayman form the start.
monokoma
August 8th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
You are right.. sometime it’s better to just to leave a page without any description if we dont have any ;( i’m going to remove the jimmy part, thank you Pencoin!
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April 15th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
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Dave
October 18th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
There was a bonus game you could get to by putting in some code at the beginning where you could play a Breakout clone that involved Rayman walking around on his hands. At least it was there on the Jaguar version.
spiraldoor
December 5th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Hate to have to be the one to say this, but that Jimmy/Hereitscool crap was actually the official story at an early stage of production. An article published in the Pix’n Love magazine confirmed this a couple of months ago. Luckily that story was scrapped before the game was released and is considered non-canon.
monokoma
December 5th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Thanks a lot for the info spiraldoor! :)
scee.studios@gmail.com
January 9th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
we want to buy a copy of that beta. thanks.