Unreleased & Cancelled Video Games across many platforms.
Total results: 340
2001 Hyperion Software Platform: AmigaOne There were big plans with the AmigaOne, and yet another title that would be planned for it was a conversion of Echelon: The Storm. A game that was being developed by Buka Entertainment that year … Continue reading
1982 Commodore Platform: Commodore Vic 20 A short entry for a title that we are not 100% certain at this stage was ever started, but has featured for years on the Ward Shrake Vapourware list. The list contains a number … Continue reading
1998 Insanity Platform: Amiga 1200 A very impressive first person development for the Amiga 1200 from 1998, which was heavily inspired by titles such as Quake. The game was being developed by Czech developers Insanity, and wasn’t to be your … Continue reading
1995 Millennium Platform: Commodore Amiga CD32 Also known as: Diggers 2 It is perhaps unsurprising that a game as ground breaking as Lemmings would inspire a series of other inventive puzzlers, which seem to share some DNA in places. Diggers … Continue reading
1993 Ola Zandelin and Robert Hennings Platform: Commodore Amiga As the archive continues to grow, so does the sadness to see that there have been so many games started and never finished over the decades of the games industry. Here … Continue reading
1990 Titus Platform: Arcade Also known as: Fire and Forget 2 – The Death Convoy Many of you may recall playing Fire and Forget 2 by Titus back in the day, although it was sadly a fairly “forgettable” game on … Continue reading
1994 Teeny Weeny Games Platform: Commodore Amiga Released on the Game Boy in 1992, Fire Fighter was to see an update 2 years later on the Amiga 1200 from Teeny Weeny Games. The plot would have you controlling a Firefighter … Continue reading
1992 Bullfrog Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and PC Code – Paul Hughes Graphics – Mark R. Cobley-Jones Music – N/A Ah ‘Flood’… The memories had with this awesome Amiga game back in the day. With its groundbreaking speech effects … Continue reading
1983 HES Platform: Commodore VIC-20 A short entry for yet another Commodore Vic-20 title that was reported on the Vic-20 Cartridge Rarity list and may well be unreleased, or otherwise saw a very limited release. Fort Apocalypse was a popular … Continue reading
1985 Aardvark Software Platform: Amstrad CPC A short entry which is thanks to @nivrig and @ChinnyVision for posting on Twitter a few days ago. Amstrad Computer User in June 1985 had posted a short news item regarding an Amstrad CPC … Continue reading
1991 Nick Pelling Platform: Commodore Amiga Frak! is an absolute classic on the BBC Micro, starring caveman Trogg as you navigated across various trecharous levels with your trusty yo-yo. It is no surprise then to learn that there had been … Continue reading
1995-2003 Mirage Media / World Software / Horn Platforms: Commodore Amiga 1200/CD32, PC and Game Boy Advance It may have been a basic fighting game with simple graphics, but Franko: The Crazy Revenge did pretty well in the Polish games … Continue reading
1991 U.S. Gold Platform: Commodore Amiga A short entry for now on what was to be an Amiga conversion of a DOS title from back in 1991 from Cineplay Interactive. Set on Earth, where robots are now in control and … Continue reading
GTW recently had an email from Andy Swann, who was one of the key programmers at Twilight back in the early 90’s, and one of the lead developers of the cool Alfred Chicken on the Amiga. Andy has been attempting … Continue reading
2000 Interactive Studios Platform: Nintendo 64 As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus DLC content to share with you. Within the book is … Continue reading
1993 Images Software Platform: Commodore Amiga (+ potentially others later on) Also known as: Monkey Business It was recently that team member Grzegorz Antosiewicz highlighted an abandoned Amiga game which had completely passed me by last year when artist Glenn … Continue reading
1989 Kingsoft Platform: Commodore Amiga A short entry for what looks like a superb little Galaga clone with a load of extra bells and whistles taking advantage of Amiga hardware. Just a small preview seems to have featured within a … Continue reading
2005 Detalion Games Platform PC Its with thanks to Liqmatrix that we learn about Galander, which was an action game that was being developed for the PC back in 2005 by Detalion Games. On their archived website, the plot was … Continue reading
1997-2004 Confounding Factor Platforms: PC, Sony PlayStation, Sony PlayStation 2, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube A short entry on a title that was being created by Confounding Factor, a company founded in 1997 by former Core Design’s Toby Gard and Paul … Continue reading
2008 Backbone Entertainment Platform: Nintendo DS As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus DLC content to share with you. Within the book is … Continue reading
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