Conker's Bad Fur Day - Rated G?

[Antwan]

Conker's Bad Fur Day was originally going to be Conker's Quest in 1998, a cutesy platforming adventure game staring a young squirrel. It was quickly criticized for being too cute and too similar to Banjo-Kazooie. Rare then did a complete overhaul on the project and released the M-Rated Conker's Bad Fur Day in 2001.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEuFNl4s9yI

Beta footage of the original game.

http://uk.ign64.ign.com/articles/073/073948p1.html

Old IGN article announcing the return of the game after it was quietly cancelled.

[JonathanPonikvar]

This is fairly well-known. The GBC games and Conker's appearance in Diddy Kong Racing both predated the change to Bad Fur Day.

I'm actually really surprised that a ROM of the early Conker 64 alpha/beta was never leaked onto the internet in some form. It looked like a relatively complete piece of playable software, so you'd think it existed on a test cart at some point. It's probably on some backup hardware collecting dust in Rare's office, behind the shackles of Microsoft...

[Chiappini92]

The final name for the product would have been Twelve Tales: Conker 64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conker%27s_..._marketing