Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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A smaller update this month, with a new entry on a cancelled Rocky Memphis game and then updates on 5 pre-existing entries in the archive. We should have a lot more C64 content for you very soon – including some big findings! Continue reading
From the archives of Atari graphic artist Jerome Domurat, archivist John Hardie found a disk labelled “Earthquake”, and so begins our look at yet another lost Atari game. Continue reading
Thanks to Csaba Virág, we’ve been given a rare bug report video from 1990 and for Novotrade’s Bugs Bunny’s Cartoon Workshop package. This has been preserved by Péter Gyöngyössy, who found and digitized the tape. Continue reading
Thanks to the brilliant preservation work of Steve Brown of the TZX Vault, we are proud to present for the very first time, an extremely early Jeff Minter title from 1981. This was for the ZX81 and has been missing for 44 years – yet to be preserved, until today! Here is a version of Conway’s Life simulator from Jeff called Fastlife and another piece of history saved. Continue reading
Thanks to the incredible efforts of our friend LiqMatrix, the KATT (Keyboard And Terminal Technology) Game Master, an extremely rare mid-1990s DOS gaming keyboard, has been preserved for everyone to explore. Continue reading
A short entry for now to highlight that Ocean Software had once signed a deal with Electronic Arts to convert a bunch of their SEGA Mega Drive titles to the Amiga. One of those titles would be a conversion of NHL Hockey. Continue reading
A CIA Agent is viciously murdered in a top class New York Hotel and suddenly you’re the number 1 suspect. You’ll find yourself thrust into an ingenious plot by a murderous clutch of financiers with world domination on their mind. You have only 24 hours to find the Deadlock files — the key to proving your innocence and exposing the conspiracy. Can you clear your name? Can you save the nation? Continue reading
You may think you’re looking at a PC Engine title, but instead – here’s an Amiga game you likely have never heard of. An early and impressive PC Engine style beat-em-up called Path of the Little Dragon (a working title). The game was being developed at Imagitec from between 1988 and 1989 that was coded and designed by Che Guevara John. Continue reading
As we crept into 1994, there were still very decent Amiga titles seeing release – and yet another promising looking title was the sequel to Blues Brothers – The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure. This time though, it was just Amiga users who would get delights of the famous duo – well actually, only SNES, PC and Game Boy users would ever get to play the game. The Amiga title would disappear into the ether and become one of the big Amiga mysteries. Continue reading
Originally debuting in arcades in 1988 under the title of Meikyuu Jima, Irem’s quirky puzzle-action game centred on freezing enemies into blocks of ice and kicking them across the stage to build paths or knock out foes. Its mix of strategy and arcade action made it stand out, and in 1990 it was ported to the Famicom, where western audiences came to know it as Kickle Cubicle on the NES. Continue reading
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