Grinning colossus (Video game)

Grinning colossus
Grinning colossus was a video game released by nintendo in 1983. It was the insparation for the Hit rope burning game.

differences between "You Have To Burn The Rope" and "Grinning Colossus"
Grinning Colossus was much longer than YHTBTR In that it came with four "rope related advntures", You Have To Burn The Rope only had 99 levels from the first adventure. Another Difference is that Grinning Colossus had 8-bit graphics. Also the Hero isn't invincible in this game. Other than that and a few other differences its almost the same game.

storyline
The first adventure begins with a short cutscene showing how the vikings had the 20 silver axes stolen from them and the origins of both The Rope and Indiana-Kirby. After the custscene Indiana-Kirby sets out to defeat the evil The Grinning Colossus and the ever menacing King Dede-Belloque. On his way he befriends the cult of yarn, string and rope who help him on levels 4, 8 and 39. On the final level The Hero is confronted by The Rope. The Rope trys to kill the Hero after having stolen the glory (and going to the victory party on level 90). The Rope is IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT without using the secret weapon on level 55. The other adventures were sadly lost to time.

how can I play Grinning colossus?
YOU CAN'T. The game was to be released on the Duper-NES or in scottland the loch-NES-s. Since it was never released only a developer at nintendo who had written a walkthrough for adventure 1 knew the storyline. Everyone who read the walkthrough learned about the game but never was a playable version released. A fan-made effort once took place to port it to the Nokia 3600, but this fell through without much fanfare when Nokia refused to sponsor it and the lead developer was grounded for ditching math class.

secret cheat code
If you enter a secret cheat code in the 1st level then it makes a weird noise and when you exit the level you'll be in a weird dark field in front of a brick building. There is literally nothing of interest here. It's actually really boring. There's another cheat code you can enter that will make Indiana Kirby's eyes turn red and fill with blood but this was a reference to the developer having a period. I know this because my uncle works at Nintendo. He must program really good to still be hired because he is drunk alot.