Documenting unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games.
1992 Millennium Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga Our next entry is for an arcade action adventure game set in the East, where you must guide Chinto through a castle full of traps and evil guards to avenge his parents’ … Continue reading
1990 Hewson Platform: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga John Phillips was a brilliant developer who created classics such as Nebulus and Eliminator, and was to extend his exciting catalogue of games with a new title called Scavenger for Hewson software … Continue reading
1993 Atried Concept / Kalisto Entertainment Platform: Amiga (likely PC and Atari ST too) Also known as “Quick”, B.U.D was a neat looking platformer that was due for release at least on the Commodore Amiga back in 1993, and was … Continue reading
1996 Frontier Software Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga Another puzzler that was due for release on both the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST platforms, and this time a late release for back in 1996 when the platforms were practically … Continue reading
1990 Ubi Soft Platforms: Commodore Amiga and Atari ST An unreleased puzzle game that was due out from Ubi Soft in 1990 for both the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST platforms, created by Michel Ancel and Nicolas Choukroun who produced … Continue reading
1988 EAS Platforms: Commodore Amiga and Atari ST A short entry for an Amiga/ST game that never was from 1988, and which was previewed in a Generation 4 and ASM Magazine. In the latter magazine, the game’s name was listed … Continue reading
1989 Imagine Software Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga I never played the SNK arcade, but remember seeing the terrible Commodore 64 conversion by Sentient Software and wondering just how it got past quality control at Ocean Software at the … Continue reading
1987-1991 Gremlin Graphics Platforms: Commodore Amiga and Atari ST Credits: Richard Costello (Lead developer), Bill Allen (Arena subgame developer), Andy Bryant (Gun subgame developer), Kevin Bulmer (Artist) and Ben Daglish (Music and FX) For years, screenshots from magazines have taunted … Continue reading
1988 Firebird and then Electronic Arts Platform: Atari ST (and likely Commodore Amiga) An impressive looking title which featured a massive dragon main character, which took up most of the screen. This was to be a second title signed up … Continue reading
1990 ARC Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga Cyber Assault was a vector-based obstacle course game announced by ARC. In the game you must control a character called TRAX (an exo-skeletal humanoid), who can run, jump and walk through a … Continue reading
1990 Ocean Software Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, PC and Commodore 64 This was to be the last of a trilogy of Nightbreed games produced by Ocean Software in 1990 and produced by Imagitec, overseen by David Wightman. The game … Continue reading
1991 Rainbow Arts Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and PC Not to be confused with the recent Psytronik release of the same name, Rotator was a one/two player tank game, where you would have to link a number of generators … Continue reading
1990 Palace Software Platforms: Commodore Amiga and Atari ST A short entry for a title that was previewed in Generation 4 magazine, issue 19 from 1990 – thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz for the heads up. The game was called AAA … Continue reading
Just seeing all the Halloween posts today, I wondered if there were that many Halloween/Horror related games in the GTW archive, so decided to have a bit of a delve and was quite surprised just how many cancelled titles there … Continue reading
Year: 1987-1992 Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, PC (DOS) and SEGA Mega Drive 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 … Continue reading
1992 Hi-Tec Software Platforms: Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga and ZX Spectrum 48/128K 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 … Continue reading
1989 Eldritch the Cat Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and PC 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 content to … Continue reading
1987-1989 System 3 Platforms: Atari 800/130XE, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Tandy Colour Computer 3 and ZX Spectrum 48K As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that … Continue reading
1990 Psygnosis Platform: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, PC Engine and Sega Mega Drive A short entry for an interesting platformer which was originally called Dr Mallet and the Tribbles – thanks to Karl Kuras for the heads up about the … Continue reading
1988 Canvas Software / U.S Gold Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore 64 As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding additional assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus … Continue reading
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