I think Adam knew that, but he does bring up a valid point.  Check any of the Wally Bear AGCI threads, Chiller Sharedata threads, or Outback Joey threads.  If a game is amazingly rare/expensive and is discovered or becomes high profile AFTER people have completed their sets, there is usually a huge push back to not include it in the sets.

Back to the topic, very cool pics!  It looks to me like prototype for a few reasons, but most notably that the chips are hand labeled and they have a date applied to them.  When I say prototype, I use it as a blanket term for anything pre-production (samples, demos, review copies, betas, alphas, etc.), so take that for what it's worth.

Many companies had their company logo on their stickers for protos, so that certainly could be the case here.  How does the label stack up against labels of retail SNES games?

Very cool game and certainly not going to be common, thanks so much for sharing!

Not to be a nag, but if you get a sec, post a TV shot of the opening screen. That would be cool to see if it is named Mountain Bike Warrior.

Been collecting SNES since 2003. I've never seen or heard of this before.

Hmm... odd, just when you think you've seen it all. Reminds me of Kellogg's Beach Volleyball for the NES in strangeness.
http://www.nintendoage.com/index....

My point was that no matter what was discovered it wouldn't carry much weight towards the masses in adding a new title to the SNES library. It is like adding a new book to the bible or an amendment to the constitution. For better or for worse people are accustomed to things just the way they are and you won't get a change without a fight on your hands.

Finds like this are awesome and I guess it bothers me when people automatically attach the prototype label when they see something new. Some refuse to be interested in the origin of such games on this basis alone. Perhaps playing devil's advocate a bit but I'd like to see people think these things out for themselves instead of just checking it against a list that they didn't write. The hobby is so much more interesting if each game is looked at individually instead of lumping them into a category.

I'm guilty of it myself as I lose interest in any game not sold in the USA. It was an early self defense mechanism used to keep my spending to a minimum. A goal that has failed horribly.

Here is a pic of the normal cart, yours is definitely a prototype of some kind by the looks of it. Awesome find man!

At my one of my resale shops on my route, Chicagoland. Don't know if Lifecycle or anything is based around the midwest - It's something I'll have to look into.

Now...... time to find a bike and play this bad boy !

Ok I'm no expert by far on protos or the diff. between a stadium events board anda wctm. I did a quick google search for proto and none of them have real labels, from what I see. I see a real game w/ a real label here.

So those who believe it is a proto explain why and explain why this clearly has a real label and not something w/typing on it.

eproms instead of mask roms. see blue ember's pics for comparison

Actually the title is not a biggie when you compare stadium events to wctm, thats what I was getting at. If the gameplay is the same, as mountain bike rally. What determines whether it is a proto compared to an actual release.

I gotcha, it's probably a proto w/ a nice label.

I don't know much about protos granted, and I'm new to collecting compared to most of you.
But in the interest of debate, why does this automatically get called a proto. It could be a title change for some internal company reason he could simply have the full game under another name that never made it to market. It wouldn't be the first time a company changed their minds after a game was completed and altered things before bringing it to market.

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No I read them. Im not formulating my thoughts properly. Its early. What I'm trying to say is if eproms do make it into some finished games, and this obviously has a label, why are we still slapping proto on it when its still inconclusive? I mean yes theres a high probability its a proto, but shouldnt we wait til he plays it and finds more info

the label doesn't look anything like the label for the known release MBR cart.s. It looks much more like a simple preproduction label. OP has already shown that the game is different at the title screen. 

Thats what I was trying to get at, sorta. Idk. Im a new student trying to wrap his mind around something the rest of the class learned years ago. I agree its highly unlikely and its possible we may never know. Finding out the answers could be impossible or take years. So I guess we wait, maybe do some digging into the company at best.

 

Definitely a proto/pre-production sample. Lifefitness was based in Franklin Park, IL, so finding it in the Chicago area makes sense. Nice piece, never seen one.

maybe a trade show prototype? To show off the bike and cart at a conference of some sort. They would put a nice label on it for that reason. Besides that I dunno why a proto would have a label.

Very cool information, thanks for the input.

The main selling point on why I'll give it a proto title is the same company thing. In the situation w/stadium events, the game was released in a small retail quantity and then bought out and re-released under a diff name.

In this case it is highly unlikely it was ever released retail-wise or we would have seen the game before, not too mention it would be unlikely that the same company would release a game and then change the name in the middle of a retail release.

Plus the fact the board has the white labels from what I have seen of protos, shouts out proto.

Very cool, I hope we can find some history on this. BTW, love the Doc Holiday