Play Prime (Proto) Online

You wrestle with janky controls and weird unfinished levels, but stumbling onto scrapped power-ups and glitchy enemies makes it feel like digging through a dev's abandoned sketchbook.

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Game Overview

Ever dug through old game files or prototype ROMs and found something weirdly fascinating? That’s Prime (Proto) on the SNES—a rough, unfinished version of what could’ve been. The controls are a little stiff, some levels feel like they were thrown together last-minute, and there’s this one enemy that just… doesn’t behave right. But that’s the charm.

You can practically see the developers experimenting: platforms that move in odd patterns, power-ups that never made it to the final game, and a color palette that screams "early build." It’s not polished, but it’s got this raw energy that makes you wonder how different the finished version might’ve been. If you’ve ever geeked out over beta footage or cut content, this is like playing through a piece of that history.

Honestly, it’s more fun to analyze than to master—but that’s the point. You’re basically time-traveling to 1993 and peeking over a programmer’s shoulder.