Y’all need to get your minds out of the gutter. Clearly, this was intended to be part of a revolutionary new control scheme invented by Shigeru Miyamoto.

If you can play the game with your phone in only one hand, the logical next step is to use your other hand to play the game on another phone at the same time.

You see, originally, the game would have required two phones to play. On one phone, you see Mario, enemies, and coins against a blank background, while on the other phone, you see the level layout without Mario, the enemies, and coins. The player would have had to split their attention between both screens in order to play the game, making it far more intuitive and comfortable to play.

When Miyamoto first presented this pitch for Super Mario Run to apple, they were thrilled. Finally, a reason for everyone to buy not one but two brand new iPhones every year! Unfortunately, everyone who was hired to test early prototypes of the game went insane within minutes and has still not recovered.

Not wanting to get sued by millions of people, Nintendo and Apple decided to pull the plug on the original concept and focus on a single phone control system. Remnants of this early prototype idea can still be seen in the game, such as in this image here.

Miyamoto was heartbroken over the decision and hasn’t been the same since. He’s been known to stop in the middle of meetings to pull out his phone, stare at it, and cry for hours on end. Above all, Miyamoto strives for innovation — to create games unlike anything the world has ever seen. This Super Mario Run prototype was something no one had ever seen before, and lifelong mental trauma be damned, it was the most innovative thing he ever came up with.

Mr Miyamoto was never able to implement a two phone control scheme that mentally scarred players, but that doesn’t mean we should all give up. If you have a dream, no matter how crazy it sounds, shoot for the stars. The worst thing that happens is that you ruin the lives of millions of people and go into tremendous debt from getting sued. Mr Miyamoto never gives up, and even though he has only been able to send a small group of play testers to the psych ward so far, I have faith that his vision will be realized some day. We can only hope.