Would You Buy Compilations Of Never Before Seen Prototypes?

[Magmavision2000]

I'm not talking about companies releasing readily available ROMS, I'm talking about stuff like the 1989 build of Super Mario World being released.

 

I doubt something like that would happen, but if it did happen, you bet I'd buy them!

Edited May 9, 2020 by Magmavision2000

[jhd]

 

For me, it would depend entirely on the quality of the game.

 

If the prototype was substantially complete and playable, but still somehow different from the released version, then I would consider it.

 

If it was just a tech demo or an unfinished early build (e.g. Dune for the Atari 2600), then I would not be interested.

 

To me, prototypes are like an artist's sketches created before a major painting or an author's draft manuscripts. I am interested in seeing the creative process and the evolution of the final work, but I would very probably not spend money to own a copy of the work-in-progress.  

[Tanooki]

If the game were playable and fun, not a crash happy mess.  Perhaps a nearly finished one they patch any bugs up that make it misbehave (like if they fixed last years leak of NES Sim City) I'd be all over it.  But if it's just a bunch of random alpha build/early beta stuff chock full of problems and half finished stuff, you couldn't expect more than $5 out of me as a curiosity and likely you'd have to give it away for me to care.  Maybe in the case of partly working pieces, maybe a lot strapped into a massive program with every piece of documentation possible scanned and cataloged so it's like an interactive history book then I'd be perhaps interested.