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The game's logo
Densetsu no Stafy is a Japan-only Game Boy Advance game released on September 6, 2002. It is the first game in The Legendary Starfy series.
This game began as a Game Boy game. In November 1995, Nintendo producer Hitoshi Yamagami's boss instructed him to create some kind of "floaty platformer". Hitoshi Yamagami would later collaborate with TOSE producer Yasuhiro Minamimoto. It originally went under development as a balloon-lifting game, until being reworked as a game where the player has to control a bubble with a Nintendo character in it and later a floating character. Both a jellyfish and a starfish were initial considerations, and a starfish was eventually chosen for the game.
Development on this game continued through 1998 and as such. At some point, both a starfish and a jellyfish were considerations for changing the bubble to a marine creature to match the theme of the game. Nintendo encouraged TOSE to rework this game for the Game Boy Color. In 2000, the Game Boy Color version underwent a period of promotion, where details about the game began to surface on the official Japanese Nintendo website. A trailer of the game was presented in 2000's Nintendo World event, amongst highly anticipated titles such as Luigi's Mansion and Super Mario 128.
As the game was approaching its release for the Game Boy Color, it was again canceled and rebuilt for the Game Boy Advance which was only going to be released in 2001. Starfy was apparently going to be purely a starfish, until he was made to fall down from the sky, which supposedly invoked a community policy for TOSE to reply that Starfy is neither a star or a starfish when asked.
There are various differences between the Game Boy Color version and the final Game Boy Advance version still noticeable on Nintendo of Japan's page about the trial demo. For example, the official logo and some of the character artwork and names of characters were changed later in development, including Kyorosuke (Moe) who was originally known as "Kyororon". It should be noted however that the Nintendo Space World 2001 trial demo for the Game Boy Advance was promoted with the old logo used during the Game Boy Color period. There was also character artwork for the Game Boy Advance version from early in development, which although different (with the exception of Moe), were not final.
Trivia[]
- This game was gonna be part of the Nintendo SpaceWorld demo.
Gallery[]
The Mystery of Densetsu No Starfy (Canceled, Game Boy Color)
LSuperSonicQ’s video on the subject.
Links[]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoczELvuafs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coetINUY5qk
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