The original Rayman is a 2D platform game developed and published by Ubisoft on September 1995 for the PlayStation and Jaguar. Early in its development, Rayman was planned for the Super Nintendo and the game featured a 2 players coop mode and different graphics. It seems that Ubisoft decided to move the project to the new CD-Rom consoles and they hired animators from a cartoon company which has considerably improved the graphics. [Info from Wikipedia]
TYKUN found some images from the unreleased Super Nintendo version in french magazine Pix’N'Love #13. In the article we can read:
Long before the Jaguar and PlayStation versions, Michel Ancel and his team were working on Rayman for the SNES. Even if it was in advanced development, the game was stopped in favor of the CD support. As exclusives, here are a few pictures from this aborted version
The original story 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.
Thanks to Adamis and TYKUN for the contributions!
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17 Responses to Rayman [SNES - Cancelled]
Yakumo
July 10th, 2010 at 9:14 am
Wow, nice find. that’s a SNES proto I’d love to see in action.
silly3200
July 11th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Looks AWESOME why it s Cancelled??? it looks good
Bob
July 11th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Whoa, now that’s interesting!
I would also love to see this in motion (or perhaps dumped).
John Doom
July 12th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
I like its colorful style *.*
I’d like to find this proto too :)
monokoma
July 12th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
I wonder if there was a playable version of this… and if it was saved by someone
MamaLuigiBarrelRoll
July 21st, 2010 at 12:16 am
In Rayman Origins, Ubisoft brings back the 2 player Co-Op idea from this! Genius! Is that a girl ray-person?
monokoma
July 21st, 2010 at 1:05 pm
It would be awesome if Ubisoft would add a video of the SNES version into Origins :P
rigletto
December 11th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
lol i wanna play this or see it played.
and to think rayman lost all that weight in so many years.
this one= obece
rayman 1= chubby=
future= skinny
raymanfreak101.
December 11th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
i wish ubisoft hadnt scrapped this. it looks awesome
this should be a rayman origins minigame. or it could have stayed. rayman 1 comes in 1996 but as rayman 2 and the series continues on as it is from there. (and they keep raving rabbids as it was. rayman raving rabbids 2 is ok tho)
rayfreak101
December 11th, 2011 at 7:35 pm
with rayman 1 being a the seaqel to this(in case you didnt get that part)and b with a different story to not make it to much like this one. rayman 2 the great escape becomes rayman 3 the great escape (RABBIDS BEING WITH AN ACTUAL STORY NOT MINIGAMES , UBISOFT) and so on
rayfreak101
December 13th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
my real username is rayfreak.
Anonymous
January 7th, 2012 at 7:20 am
Hasn’t anybody thought of trying to contact michel ancel to see if he still has this I know its impossible but its worth a shot.
muffins231
February 11th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
maybe. i dont think it would be possible or easy but this could be cool as a 3DS game or something. it could be called “rayman: girl power” cos of ray girl. comment and tell me what you think
Anonymous
February 26th, 2012 at 9:56 pm
No I could careless about it being remade for the 3ds I just won’t to try out this cancelled jewel to see how it is.
happybananaburger
March 4th, 2012 at 9:18 am
@raymanfreak agreed my friend
Koopako
August 25th, 2012 at 9:07 am
those guys… one of them is red, the other is blue, also their haircuts…. i think rayman is actually the “fusion of those two guys we see here, that would explain the disappearance of one of them”
also, geez what a lame story that game would get
OMNI6
April 14th, 2013 at 2:50 am
Rayman’s been eating donuts mixed with chicken McNuggets