Preserving Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 28
1995 Mirage Technologies Platform: Amiga CD32, PC, Super Nintendo, SEGA Saturn and Sony Playstation Also known as Mayhem, and released eventually as Bedlam A short entry thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz of a cool isometric action game with a mix of … Continue reading
1994 Bloodhouse / Housemarque Platform: Amiga CD32 and Amiga 1200 Thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz for the heads up regarding a title by the creators of Super Stardust. Aggression was to be a horizontally scrolling shooter with ray traced graphics and … Continue reading
1994 Mindscape Platforms: Commodore Amiga (1mb) and Amiga CD32 Following the recent recovery of the Game Gear game Alien Olympics, we were surprised to find a curious “Alien.500” file that I suspected might be an Amiga conversion. Thanks to the … Continue reading
1993 Krisalis Software Platforms: Various A very short entry for now and for a potential sequel to Soccer Kid, a platformer game where you control a kid with a football who can perform a series of special moves to defeat … Continue reading
1994 Starbyte Platform: Commodore Amiga Our next entry is thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz, and is of a title that was eventually released on PC for the German market in 1997, but was due an Amiga release much earlier. Bazooka Sue … Continue reading
1995 Black Legend Platform: PC, Amiga 1200 and CD32 Chess Through The Ages is an unreleased chess game for Commodore Amiga 1200 and CD32 (possibly even PC – see further on). First kicked off in development around 1993 and eventually … Continue reading
1994 Team 17 Platforms: Amiga 1200 and CD32 Our next entry is a slightly obscure fighting game that was due for release on the Amiga 1200 and CD32. The game was set to be published by Team 17. Oddly, the … Continue reading
1996 Bullfrog Productions Platforms: Amiga CD 32, PC, Sony PlayStation and SEGA Saturn 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 … Continue reading
1993 Software 2000 Platform: Commodore Amiga and CD32 Our next entry into the GTW archives comes courtesy of Anonymous Contributor, who had been digging into details on Winnetou for the Commodore 64 and found a stack of new information on … 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
It may have been a basic fighting game with simple graphics, but Franko: The Crazy Revenge did pretty well in the Polish games market in 1994 and has a hardcore set of fans today. It resulted in a sequel that was started in 1995, with a whole host of new features and enhancements over the original game.
When mentioned in snippets as early as 1995, the game was said to be including digitized backgrounds and characters, with a series of new moves being developed. You would be able to interact more with your surroundings, picking up garbage cans and the like and using as projectiles, and the game was to be a lot gorier! Your main character would also have over 200 frames of animation, compared to the dozen or so which the original game’s character had. Continue reading
1994 Digital Illusions / Psygnosis Platforms: Commodore Amiga and SEGA MegaDrive Recently we reported on a lost SEGA MegaDrive conversion of Benefactor, which the press had wrongly attributed screenshots from another game called Hardcore. Hardcore itself was a fantastic looking … Continue reading
Fellow preservationist, Stone Oakvalley Studios, is searching for evidence of an earlier, undocumented version of the Amiga CD32 Demo Disc (v1.0), believed to have shipped with some of the very first CD32 consoles in mid-1993. Continue reading
Hired Guns is regarded by many as one of the finest first-person action RPGs ever released on the Amiga, so it should perhaps come as little surprise that an enhanced AGA edition was once in development. Never released commercially, the project remained little more than a rumour for many years until a surviving prototype eventually surfaced online, giving us a fascinating glimpse at what original programmer Scott Johnston had been experimenting with. Continue reading
1994 Ocean Software Platforms: Amiga CD32 and Atari Jaguar (TBC) As Commodore were desperately holding on towards the mid-1990s, the Amiga CD32 was also desperate for an injection of new and exciting titles to try and help keep everything afloat. … Continue reading
1994 Mindscape Platform: Commodore Amiga CD32 MegaRace was an ambitious title due for release on the Amiga CD32 by Mindscape back in 1994, and was being developed by French programmers Cryo. Set in the future, the game revolves around a … Continue reading
A nice surprise to the week with the recovery of an alpha build of the long lost Amiga CD32 edition of MegaRace – the FMV racer which Amiga CD32 users were disappointed to miss out on. The recovery is thanks to Dave Arcadian, who picked up the build many years ago.
After a bit of work, and thanks to help from @notrevenant.bsky.social and Steve Snake, you can now check out the build in the likes of WinUAE. There unfortunately doesn’t seem to be a playable part within, though its possible this is locked away somewhere. There is a demo of the gameplay, showing how it would have played on the CD32, and it looks good. Continue reading
1994 Ocean Software Platform: Amiga 1200 (and possibly CD32) Mighty Max was based on the popular toys and subsequent cartoon of the time (huge in the US!), and was initially developed on the Amiga 1200 as the primary platform, with … Continue reading
1994 Millenium Platform: SEGA Mega Drive, Amiga 1200, Amiga CD32 I remember watching old episodes of Mr. Magoo as a kid, a hapless short-sighted old man who always seems to get into comical trouble, but everything always has a way … Continue reading
1995 Acclaim Platforms: Commodore Amiga 1200, CD32 Yet another late Amiga conversion, which sadly seems to have fallen by the wayside due to the dwindling market at the time. NBA Jam Tournament Edition was a particularly high profile title which … Continue reading
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