Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 12
Thanks to Joachim Wijnhoven, a long lost game called Ball by Dream Systems from 1989 has been recovered. This is a preview which comes with two separate files showing two different levels and some great presentation. Still early days with … Continue reading
Thanks to Allan Pinkerton, who has very kindly preserved missing copies of Basic Tools, Creators Revenge (Already out there as Metamorphosis III – The Creators Revenge), Math Pack and Math Flash. They are not strictly ‘Games That Weren’t’, but we … Continue reading
Many thanks to Dave Peacock, who recently recovered the following graphical assets for Beverly Hills Cop on the C64 from his work disks. It seems that at somepoint, Michael Owens took over graphical duties on the C64 – leaving Dave … Continue reading
Michael Ware has very kindly recovered all the sources and demos for a early production of Biff that was cancelled. Interestingly it was also developed in 1989 for Zeit Productions – suggesting that Biff was originally meant to be for … Continue reading
Black Shadow C64 Games That Werent CRL 1988 Addition by Alex Ross: Sadly it seems there was no conversion whatsoever for the C64 on Black Shadow. CRL head honcho, Clem Chambers wrote to us to explain that although the magazine … Continue reading
Richard Bayliss has been working hard the past few months to finish off an abandoned Columns clone which was infamously released into PD and onto Commodore Format’s covertape in an incomplete form around 30 years ago. This has now been … Continue reading
A game which made the news pages of various fanzines, including Commodore Scene magazine here in the UK around 1997. Bloodrush was to be a promising shooter for C64 fans who desperately awaited any new software to come about. Apart … Continue reading
If you haven’t played Breakdown before, then you should check it out. It’s a fun and simple shooter/platformer/puzzler mix, which was generously given away on Zzap!64 issue 90’s covermount. When flicking through the magazine the other day, I realized that … Continue reading
Way back in Commodore User issue 25 (October 1985) is how far we’re travelling for our latest preservation work – a board game tie-in that blurred the lines between digital and physical play: Bryan Robson’s Super League, published by Paul Lamond Games. And that is the key thing, at first on our C64 entry we wasn’t sure if it was published or not, but turns out it was. 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).
A rather different early preview of Bugs Bunny – Private Detective has been found on Ash and Dave’s work disks recently. This was done around 1991 time, and seems to have undergone some major changes that led up to the … Continue reading
1988 Ariolasoft / U.S. Gold Platform: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, PC, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 Bushido Warrior (or potentially just Bushido) was a new oriental themed Gauntlet clone that was due out for a wide number of … Continue reading
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