Tembo The Badass Elephant

Tembo The Badass Elephant
Developer: Game Freak Publisher: Sega Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows Released internationally: July 21, 2015 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds.

Trumbo Tembo the Badass Elephant is an explosive 2.5D platformer adventure starring an elephant with a Rambo-like attitude.

Notably, it's Game Freak's first game for a non-Nintendo platform since 1999's Click Medic.

Unused Graphics

Mockup Title Screen

Most notable for using the game's original name, "Trumbo the Badass Elephant", which was probably changed to avoid legal conflicts with Disney's Dumbo. Despite this change, all internal assets related to Tembo (sprites, models, audio files, etc.) - including the game executable file at launch, causing issues booting the game - still refer to him as "Trumbo".

Go Trumbo!

A row of nine individual sprites that when combined spell out "GO TRUMBO!" would have played at the start of every level.

Mockup Menus

オプション画面-CS版"/(Option screen - Console version)

オプション画面-PC版"/(Option screen - PC version)

リーダーボード画面"/(Leaderboard screen)

Internal Project Name

The internal project name of the game is Project Zoo, according to SteamDB.

Cancelled DLC

DLC Menu UI

Several unused graphics referencing a menu for downloadable content.

DLC_title

English	French	German
Italian	Spanish

DLC_background

DLC_cratemark

DLC cursor and DLC_checkmark_00

SteamDB Depots

According to SteamDB, the game has unused app depot for DLC once associated to the main app until June 9, 2021. These DLCs were never officially announced. Their contents are unknown outside of the suggested Sonic the Hedgehog-themed collaboration.

Sub ID	Last Known Name
348630	Zoo - Sonic Pack
349590	SonicPack1
349600	zoo - sonicpack2
349610	zoo - sonicpack3
349630	DLC1Pack

Unused Sounds

I_SonicRingSE

A crude imitation of the iconic ring-picking sound effect, once again suggesting at planned Sonic the Hedgehog-themed content.