Preserving Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Game History Since 1999
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1992 MicroProse Platform: Commodore Amiga Also known as: A.T.A.C: Advanced Tactical Air Command – The Secret War Against Drugs MicroProse’s flight sim, A.T.A.C: Advanced Tactical Air Command was previewed for the Amiga in various magazines back in 1992, but was … 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
1999 Aftertaste Productions Platform: Commodore Amiga Abducted was an adventure game in the style of the Monkey Island games, and was previewed in magazines such as Amiga Computer Studio and Amiga Fever back in 1999 and during a time when … Continue reading
1992 ICE Platform: Commodore Amiga + possibly others A very short entry until we can learn more, but Access Denied was a 3D game apparently programmed by the same people who did F-19 Stealth Fighter. If that is the case, … Continue reading
Only a few copies were ever sold of adidas Championship Football in France by Ocean Software. A handful of copies were known to exist, but were yet to be preserved. This changed on the 22nd March thanks to Galahad, with … Continue reading
1989 Ocean Software France Platforms: Commodore Amiga and Atari ST Adidas Golden Shoe is not to be confused with Adidas Championship Football, but then perhaps it should be? (see below). The team and the graphics are completely different for both games … Continue reading
Next into the archives is a game you will never have heard of, and was due from the creators of Shockwave on the Amiga. This was a very early top-down multi-directional shooter called Aftershock – also for the Commodore Amiga. 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
A very short post to flag up some unused assets and early screens for the Psygnosis classic – Agony thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz. First of all there are a number of screens in the gallery below dug out by Grzegorz … Continue reading
It wasn’t too long ago when we did a short post on the unreleased Amiga edition of Empire’s CyberSpace. In the meantime, Amiga Games That Weren’t and Adrian Simpson were digging further already and were in touch with much of … Continue reading
Head over to Amiga Games That Weren’t for four new entries! Amiga Putty Squad isnt the only version of that game which wasnt released. aGTWs detour into the world of the Playstation 2 and the unreleased Putty Squad PS2 fills … Continue reading
Thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz, here are a number of early screens from Alien 3 on the Amiga, featuring an unused picture with the Alien head (which Grzegorz believes was going to be a level loading screen) and a screenshot showing … Continue reading
A quick post thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz, with a series of screenshots and magazine scans showing unused assets and features not found in the final version of Alien Breed 3D. The game was previewed in many magazines during 1995, with … Continue reading
Following on from Grzegorz Antosiewicz’s recent asset differences post for Alien Breed 3D, comes a set for Alien Breed Tower Assault. Grzegorz summarizes the following differences to the final game, which you can check out in the gallery below.
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 Activision Platform: PC DOS (Possibly Amiga TBC) Alien VS Predator has been somewhat of a mystery ever since its early announcements from Activision in the likes of Commodore Format and other magazines. We have long had a page regarding … Continue reading
2000 Darkage Software Platform: Amiga AGA Whilst many had long abandoned the Amiga as a platform, there were those who were still trying to keep the dream alive, and one such team was the Italian based Darkage Software who were … Continue reading
In the latest Amiga Addict magazine, we have contributed an article on the unreleased Dick Special series, which talks about not only Sandy White’s original development – but also the Activision and Miracle Games versions that followed afterwards.
For more details, including ordering – please check out the link below:
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Thanks to ‘Lifeschool’ for the heads up, where Mark Sibly gave a quick interview to talk about Gloom. Another contributor on the forum gave details of an Australian game in development called “Stop Saddam”.
It’s not just games that we preserve at Games That Weren’t, but we try and preserve a variety of software which hasn’t yet been digitized or made available online. Thanks to the sterling efforts of Aaron White, we have a set of 9 Amiga Public Domain disks that had yet to be preserved (until now!). Continue reading
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