"It's Crap, Start Again From Scratch" - Decades Before Splatoon, Nintendo Was Working On A Similar Shooter For 64DD

N64 dev spent 2 years making games for the ill-fated 64DD add-on, only to have Nintendo continually say they sucked and to "start again from scratch": "It was just really degrading"

"The rest of the time was giving them a prototype of a new idea every month with a quick proof of concept, then having it just be ripped apart in the nicest possible way"

"It's Crap, Start Again From Scratch" - Decades Before Splatoon, Nintendo Was Working On A Similar Shooter For 64DD

"Because it was for Nintendo, we made everyone have water pistols".Since its original debut on the Wii U in 2015, the Splatoon series has become one of Nintendo's most beloved franchises, with countless players having fallen in love with its stylish and colourful vision of a world where evolved marine lifeforms duke it out with water pistols.But something that you might not know is that nearly two decades before the game was originally released,…