“We were in development hell for over a decade – Chex Quest actually started off as an English port of this little known Japanese Famicom game Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, but the technology for sentient chex men just wasn’t there at the time so the license ended up going to Nintendo,” commented the developer.

Imagine if Super Mario Bros. 2 in the US had actually been released as a Chex-themed game. How history might have been changed.