Tom & Jerry

That SNES one.

Despite the fact there's a beta of the game floating around on ROM sites, there's absolutely nothing different between it and the final release. Nothing! Which is a shame because the game feels unfinished, and I was hoping for proof. It's probably one of those cases where the final game was found in a not-final cartridge or something. EPROM or whatever.

However, there's unused text in both versions of the game that's the same, and seems more than a little out of place.

IN NOVEMBER OF 1984, SHORTLY BEFORE GORBACHEV CAME TO POWER, A TYPHOON- CLASS SOVIET SUB SURFACED JUST SOUTH OF THE GRAND BANKS. IT THEN SANK IN DEEP WATER, APPARENTLY SUFFERING A RADIATION PROBLEM. UNCONFIRMED REPORTS INDICATED SOME OF THE CREW WERE RESCUED. BUT ACCORDING TO REPEATED STATEMENTS BY BOTH SOVIET AND AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS, NOTHING OF WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE... ...EVER HAPPENED.

Tom & Jerry isn't about submerged Soviet submarines!

This is actually text from another game by Hi-Tech Expressions, The Hunt For Red October, which is actually about submerged Soviet submarines. It's located between the ROM header (which calls the game Super Tom & Jerry, though the box and title screen lack the prefix) and the credits, which is slightly odd.

Interestingly, it's not even the final text of the game! Here's what it's really like

On November 12, 1984 approximately four months before Mikhail Gorbachev took power in the Soviet Union, a Russian TYPHOON class submarine surfaced briefly in the Atlantic just north of Bermuda. It was subsequently sank in the deep water after suffering massive radiation leakage. Unconfirmed reports indicated some of the crew were rescued. According to my repeated statements by both Soviet and American governments... Nothing of what you are about to see... EVER HAPPENED.

Beta text of a different game inside another beta that kept the text into the final! Wacky stuff.

And for those who can't read long sentences at a time, it's more or less the same, except the final text makes better use of the English language.

"Sank into deep water." Honestly. It's called the ocean, people, and I don't think it likes being called deep water. Maybe very deep water, but not without that prefix.