Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Thanks to Gaetano for highlighting which is something I hadn’t noticed before. In Zzap 64’s review of 19 Boot Camp Part 1, it seems they either reviewed an earlier build of the game, or they used screenshots provided/from a preview … Continue reading
I can’t really add this to GTW64 as a proper entry, but I thought i’d share – as i’m pretty happy at this particular personal finding. After doing some preservation work with the Maverick v5 tool on a problematic disk, … Continue reading
Another one for the collection, but spotted in an issue of Your Commodore was a preview of Pitfighter with a slight difference in the game area. The difference is merely the inclusion of a yellow trousered main character for Kato … Continue reading
1999 Fox Interactive Platform: Sony PlayStation and SEGA Saturn (unreleased) A short entry to share some screens showing a much earlier version of Alien Resurrection, featuring a 3rd person perspective for the game that was eventually dropped for a 1st … Continue reading
A lovely curiosity added to the archives today thanks to Marco Das, with the preservation of a very rare non-playable demo of Alleykat distributed by Hewson back in the day. It was likely for shops to showcase the game in … Continue reading
Just a quick post to put back up the Alligata Master disks and Maniacs of Noise SFX files that we had on the old site. It seemed a shame they were tucked away out of sight – so here they … Continue reading
A short post to highlight an early Apprentice (Rainbow Arts) screen that was shown in ACE magazine issue 27 on page 110. Here you can see a screenshot with a different dashboard, without text and as Anonymous Contributor suggests, perhaps … Continue reading
Our next Christmas 2024 update sees Games That Weren’t take a look at a series of early concepts and prototypes from the late Archer Maclean’s disks. This includes the first ever look at concepts for an abandoned Atari/Commodore sequel to … Continue reading
Our next Christmas 2024 update for the archive (and covering the late Archer Maclean’s work) takes a look at the early beginnings of Jimmy White’s Whirlwind Snooker, before Jimmy had any ties at all to the game. This includes an … Continue reading
Just a very quick post to share a few pre-release versions of Hawkeye and Armalyte. Nothing to get too excited about, and the Hawkeye version has already been put out last year – just slightly under the radar. The purpose … Continue reading
Atari Mania are on it again, with a Atari 400/800 prototype recovered by John Hardie. This time an Astrology program which was developed in 1982. http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-astrology_42800.html This is what Atari Mania posted about it on AtariAge’s forums: “It seems Astrology was only … Continue reading
Been a while since we last did an unused materials/prototype post. This time we have a very quick one thanks to Ross Sillifant. In the advert for Batman Returns on the Lynx, you’ll notice that there are a number of … Continue reading
The unreleased Megadrive port of Psygnosis’ Bill’s Tomato Game has surfaced once more, this time on Ebay. The game had surfaced previously in 2009, and then things went quiet as the quest went on for the elusive dump of the … Continue reading
Whilst processing Archer’s Atari ST disks, we found a few bits of software and prototypes which are believed to be missing, or are at least marked as so at our friends at https://www.atarimania.com/ First up is a strange prototype of … Continue reading
Breathless is a FPS game for the Amiga that was released in late 1995, and was shown in the press a lot at the time over the years. As a result, there were a number of early screens and demos … Continue reading
1994 Reflections Platform: Amiga Just a short post thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz, who has highlighted some screenshots showing assets that never appeared in the final game. Firstly, Amiga Format and Amiga Joker magazines both showed earlier versions of the title … Continue reading
Just a short post to add a slightly earlier prototype of Ariolasoft’s Bug Blitz which has been recovered thanks to Csaba Virag and Janos Szeitz (who digitized the turbo tape where it was found).
Following on from last week’s early screens from Beavers on the Amiga, Grzegorz Antosiewicz has dug out some early preview screens from Sensible Software’s brilliant Cannon Fodder. These screenshots are from when it was in early development, taken from magazines … Continue reading
Chatting with team member Gary Spence the other day, Gary wondered if he had perhaps an over-active imagination when looking at Elite’s Cataball game one evening. A game that was released on one of their Hit-Paks, but then spruced up … Continue reading
Thanks to contributor Obi-Wandi, here is an early look at Championship Wrestling on the C64. This early screenshot was found by Obi-Wandi whilst looking through issues of Happy Computer magazine. Here are some details from Obi-Wandi… “As you can see, … Continue reading
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