Soundwave on 05 September 2025
Yeah there are lots of stories echoing that.
Not only games, the Game Boy itself was largely made in secret after president Yamauchi cancelled the project (lol). They just kept working on it anyway and then when there was a delay to the Super Famicom (SNES) which originally supposed to release I believe in 1989, the Game Boy team stepped up and showed Yamauchi the product again. That's the only reason it got released. Pretty wild to think about.
The cell shading in Zelda: Wind Waker too, the team kept it secret from Miyamoto who hated the art style, but they had progressed too far that they knew they would be allowed to finish it.
