Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 13
Flash Gordon was a great budget title from Mastertronic, and one which I enjoyed a lot on the Commodore 64. One thing that stood out in particular was the amount of different styles of games present, but also the amazing music by Rob Hubbard. Continue reading
With out next entry, we may have two completely separate games here – but for now we present a game that was due for release by Titus on at least the Game Boy Advance, which is only known as F1-X (which might be F1 Xtreme or similar). Continue reading
While Igor: Objetivo Uikokahonia is best known for its 1994 Spanish release and a later English version published in the US by Optik Software – Pendulo Studios had once begun work on a far more ambitious follow-up version of the game for French publisher Infogrames. This project was ultimately cancelled, but its technology would go on to form the foundations of Hollywood Monsters. Continue reading
Not to be confused with the text adventure trilogy of the same name, Legacy of the Necromancer was a planned dungeon crawling RPG in the style of Dungeon Master. It was to be developed by a team at Virgin, and not Westwood (as it was incorrectly reported by press at the time). The title was even shown at the Winter CES that year on Virgin’s stand, but it never saw release. Continue reading
In the latest Amiga Addict magazine, we have contributed an article on the unreleased Dick Special series, which talks about not only Sandy White’s original development – but also the Activision and Miracle Games versions that followed afterwards.
For more details, including ordering – please check out the link below:
https://www.addict.media/amiga-addict/amiga-addict-magazine Continue reading
We’ve had a request from the grandson-in-law of the developer of “Calculated Risk!” for the Apple II to try and help find a clean dump of the game that works in an emulator. Continue reading
A little bit behind at the moment, but just to share that work at Games That Weren’t has been highlighted in a new Retro Gamer article on Enigma Variations in issue 280. The feature in particular takes a look at many games that were never released by the development studio, many of which were preserved by us last year. Quick photos below, but text blurred out. Continue reading
Amiga fans may recall a late release in the Amiga calendar in the shape of Tiny Troops back in 1997 from Vulcan Software and then later Amiga Future in 1999. A real-time strategy game with elements of Cannon Fodder at times, and where you could have up to 2 players in a split-screen mode. Continue reading
ThunderJaws was a 1990 arcade machine from Atari that saw you and/or a friend fighting the underwater forces of Madam Q. Domark picked up the licence for the Tengen range, and it was released on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST… but no Spectrum version. Continue reading
C.L.E.I.A. (or Complex Logic of the Autonomous Computer Entity) is a cancelled game from Ubi Soft that was being developed back in 1990. Very little is known about the development, though the game bears resemblance to titles such as Explora and Chrono Quest. Continue reading
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