Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni for flagging up, but Atari Mania have recently announced recovery of four games by General Masters Corporation for the Atari 400/800 which apparently were never released. Mike Burkhart kindly dumped the games in 2022: Con Job … Continue reading
1983-1984 Archer Maclean Platform: Atari 800 Whilst working to recover the late Archer Maclean’s work disks, we discovered a few things which surprised us. As well as games, Archer also did a bit of freelance development work outside of games … Continue reading
2006 Player One Limited Platform: Mobile J2ME A short entry for a Java Platform mobile conversion of a classic platformer title that many of us know and love. Nebulus (or Tower Toppler as known in other regions) was about to … Continue reading
Games That Weren’t has been running for a quarter of a century this year, which is not only staggering, but also a bit scary if I’m honest. For 25 years (much longer if you count preservation work before the online … Continue reading
Thanks to documentary creator Moleman, here is a documentary regarding a cancelled Star Trek game that was being developed for Activision back in 2003 by Hungarian development team – Digital Reality. Here is a deleted scenes video (which is in … Continue reading
It is a big week, as we celebrate our 25th Anniversary of Games That Weren’t. It’s also our monthly update to the Commodore 64 archive, with plenty of new and updated materials for you to check out. 2,500 entries now … Continue reading
1991 Codemasters Platform: ZX Spectrum 128k Also known as Diz564, our next entry isn’t technically an ‘unreleased game’ – but an ‘unreleased cut down version of a released game’. Spellbound Dizzy was one of Dizzy’s last adventures on the ZX … Continue reading
1984 Atarisoft Platform: BBC Micro The BBC Micro sadly hasn’t been graced with a huge number of official arcade conversions, but we have seen many different clones and even a Bubble Bobble conversion that never saw the light of day. … Continue reading
1995 Acclaim Platforms: Commodore Amiga 1200, CD32 Yet another late Amiga conversion, which sadly seems to have fallen by the wayside due to the dwindling market at the time. NBA Jam Tournament Edition was a particularly high profile title which … Continue reading
2008 BigBig Studios Platform: Sony PlayStation 2 Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice was released back in late 2007/early 2008 on the Sony PlayStation Portable to mixed reviews. However, also in production was a PS2 edition which would sadly never see the … Continue reading
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