Preserving Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Game History Since 1999
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A much larger update for Commodore 64 users this month for GTW64. You will have already seen the release of Bomb Race, though behind the scenes have been a number of new entries for other titles and also updates for others too. Thanks to everyone for their submissions and updates!
We have details about the release of Bomb Race, 6 other new entries added and also 15 other games updated too. See you next month! Continue reading
Next up in the archives is a show reel game that was produced back in 2000 to tout to potential publishers in the form of this neat Space Invaders clone called Vaderz. Continue reading
Following on from Maximum Overdrive, we’re adding a very early entry for a title called Solar Wind, which didn’t get particularly far unfortunately. We’re not sure if it was to be a 3rd person flying game, or a 2D scrolling game at this stage. Continue reading
A short entry for a missing Tiger Game.com game that was due for release back in October 1998 called Small Soldiers and based on the DreamWorks film, where toy soldiers transform sleepy suburbia into a combat zone. Continue reading
Thanks to Patrick Furlong, the recently found Steve Ralph games (which were likely homebrew titles) have been almost been fully preserved for the Amstrad CPC and you can now download the progress so far to check out for yourself. Continue reading
After the success of ShockWave on the Amiga, Lance Abson decided to try and re-use and pivot the engine towards a racing game. The result was Maximum Overdrive, which was used as a demo and pitched to various different publishers for interest.
The demo itself is more of a technical demonstration of the road effect. There is a simple dashboard, and you can drive the car around the track with weather effects and with a target for shooting other vehicles. Shooting is disabled in the demo and you can just go around the track and fly past other enemy vehicles. There’s no concept of laps and the demo will just run continuously. Continue reading
This isn’t an unreleased game as such, but at least half of the game was! New York Warriors on the Amstrad CPC is an interesting tale, as the special 128K disk version release was missing half of the content, with the first disk side repeated on both sides (whoops!). This also included a bunch of cut scenes and the final end sequence too.
Troubling users for 36 years, it is now time to put it all to rest and give you the opportunity to play those missing levels as intended, and crucially be able to play through the entire game. Developer Fred Williams thankfully kept all his 3″ development disks, and passed these onto Kevin Edwards (ex-BBC Micro programmer) who now helps to preserve and rescue old game development disks during his retirement. Continue reading
Mortal Kombat 3 was once officially announced for the Atari Jaguar, SEGA Saturn and 3DO platforms way back around 1995, but sadly would never see release on any of them. Despite its high-profile status, the project quietly disappeared. However, available documentation, magazine press and developer recollections suggest the game progressed further than people might realise on those platforms.
Atari Corporation and Williams Entertainment had issued a joint press release in March confirming that Mortal Kombat 3 was in development for the Atari Jaguar, with a planned release window of Q2 1996. Atari described the title as one of the most frequently requested games from Jaguar owners and positioned it as a major upcoming release for the system. Continue reading
A nice Commodore 64 curiosity added to the archive today thanks to Nigel Critten, with Bomb Race – an earlier version of Bomb Uzal due for release under the old Mirrorsoft label, before ImageWorks was born, and the game rebranded. A few visual differences present, and there might be more tucked away to discover! Continue reading
Next into the archives is a game you will never have heard of, and was due from the creators of Shockwave on the Amiga. This was a very early top-down multi-directional shooter called Aftershock – also for the Commodore Amiga. Continue reading
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