Preserving Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 11
1986 Elite Systems Platforms: Commodore 16 and Plus/4 This is a smaller piece intended for inclusion in The Games That Weren’t book that didn’t make the final cut. As a result, please note that it hasn’t been professionally proof read … Continue reading
A short entry on a Commodore Plus 4 entry which was due for release by Novotrade in 1988. The game was called Boszorkány, which is Hungarian for ‘Witch’. Continue reading
1987 Codemasters Platform: Commodore 16/Plus 4 A very short entry for a Commodore 16/Plus 4 conversion of Grand Prix Simulator that is currently missing. The question is, was it ever started? The game was released on the Commodore 64. Popular … Continue reading
1993 TCFS Platform: Commodore Plus/4 Back when Lemmings was being converted to every platform under the sun, the poor old Plus/4 was being neglected, having long been abandoned commercially. That however didn’t stop Tamás Sasvári (code) and Csaba Kémeri (graphics) … Continue reading
Yet another lost Commodore 16/Plus 4 title from Mastertronic, and this time in the shape of Los Angeles S.W.A.T – which sort of splits opinion with the Commodore 64 edition that was released. Some like it, though others loave it – especially the music! Continue reading
Masters of the Universe – The Super Adventure and The Arcade Game were two games based on the Filmation cartoon Masters of the Universe, released by US Gold in 1987.
The games have you as He-Man, who fights to deal with the evil forces of Skeletor, who is determined to take over Eternia. The franchise has received a cult following over 40 years, culminating in the release of a new live action movie in June 2026 by MGM Amazon.
The Super Adventure is a graphic adventure on the Spectrum and C64 but text only on the BBC. The Arcade Game is an exploring game but received pretty badly – at the time, it was voted 2nd Worst Game of the year by readers of Crash magazine. Continue reading
1987 Codemasters Platform: Commodore 16/Plus 4 A very short entry for a Commodore 16/Plus 4 conversion of Pro Snooker Simulator that is currently missing. The question is, was it ever started? The game was released on the Commodore 64. Popular … Continue reading
1985 Adventure International Platforms: Dragon 32, Commodore Plus 4 This is a short entry to extend our Dragon 32/Plus/4 entries into the Games That Weren’t archive, with what was suggested as being a new Adventure International title that was being … Continue reading
Today we have a new recovery for the Commodore Plus 4, and a long lost Hungarian game called S.O.S, created in 1993 by Zsolt Asztalos and Robert Horvath. The recovery is thanks to GTW’s Csaba Virág, who has been very busy preserving disks of late. Continue reading
Thanks to Csaba Virág, we’ve learned of two more pieces of Commodore Plus/4 software that have thankfully been preserved. Dino Daddy is an English language learning program where players translate words, whilst Matek Robi is an educational mathematics title. Both programs were provided by Imre Lóránth and digitally preserved by László Bozsó.
Interestingly, the software was written by the same author behind the commercially released Rabló Rulett, though it isn’t currently known if either educational title was ever commercially published themselves. Continue reading
A video surfaced in recent weeks, which was recorded at a home meeting in December 1993, a day before a Christmas computer event in Hungary. Sadly the game has no name at present. Continue reading
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