Doubutsu Banchou (Cubivore) N64 Beta gameplay - Piggy to Grizzly cycle / 動物番長NINTENDO64プロトタイプ

Cubivore is one of my favorite Gamecube games of all time, and this beta came out of nowhere! Read more about the Beta’s discovery and preservation here: Originally intended as an N64DD game, Doubutsu Banchou (動物番長) aka Animal Leader was shown off at Spaceworld 2000 and was changed to a cartridge game near the end of its development, but was canceled. Doubutsu Banchou later came out for the Gamecube in 2002 in Japan published by Nintendo. Nintendo of America didn’t want to localize it for the US, so it was released by Atlus USA the same year under the name Cubivore: Survival ofthe Fittest. Any N64DD games that didn’t get released for the add-on either got scrapped (Mother 3) or came out on cartridge (Paper Mario, Animal Forest.) Some DD games eventually did come out, but were re