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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Is there anywhere on the internet where you can download roms of these cancelled games..?
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look at the graphics and the status bar, it’s like maya the bee on GBC.
I had this game long time ago :o
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
Interesting, do you have any source for the info stud102?
The last “anonymous” person to post got what he said from Wikipedia.
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.
Thanks for the confirmation Rodent, do you know if it could be possible to find more screens or videos from this lost game?
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.
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!
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?
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.
I believe in the files for Maya the Bee & Her Friends, the sprites of Kenny, Cartman, Stan, and Kyle still remain. Also a sprite that seems to be Itchy from the Simpsons (that’s what it looks like) is in the game. I don’t think that sprite went used at all.
Hope this is some good information, I’m very interested with this game, and if Trey Parker and Matt Stone put the game up for download somewhere, I’m going to get it.
Or maybe someone could hack Maya the Bee and rework the sprites, idk
That’s right! Also one sprite of Itchy from The Simpsons for some reason:
https://tcrf.net/Maya_the_Bee_%26_Her_Friends
For more screenshoots of the game visit this link:http://lostmediaarchive.wikia.com/wiki/South_Park_(Unreleased_1998_GBC_Game)
Awesome! Nice to see more screens from the game :D
The rom for this is now online https://mega.nz/#!A1ozAZYa!KyqmMuo0OTdC4AOXHq15f1mQyKtS3YFWLOoMceNVejg
The .ROM of the game is finally out! The gameplay is actually somewhat close to Evolution: Dino Dudes (a.k.a. The Humans) and pretty good i must say. I have the .ROM that was somehow released at LostMediaWiki’s Discord and turns out that it was actually 100% finished! It was obtained directly from one of the lead developers of the game. Too bad it was actually never officially released but at least the .ROM is finally out at last!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf-Ln3yeQAY
I have found a cheat to skip levels is it ok to send it here?
Sure! Why not :) ?
Press select on the pause screen, I think
I Found The Full Game! https://youtu.be/ddRPi0v-dqk