Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 649
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
1991 Carleton Handley Platform: Amiga A huge thanks to both Carleton Handley and Vinny Mainolfi for passing on this abandoned prototype for us to put on the site which was for the Amiga platform. Vinny has been chatting with Carleton … Continue reading
199? Scienide Platform: Amiga 500 Blork was a very stylish underwater shooter being created by the demo group Scienide (http://www.scienide.de/) around the mid-late 90s, where you control a cute fish main character and his octopus friend within a very dark … Continue reading
1991 Digital Magic Software Platform: Amiga (and C64 – released as Bod Squad) C64 owners will very much recognise our next entry, which was eventually released by Zeppelin Games back in 1992 as Bod Squad. Originally though, the game was … Continue reading
1992 Strangeways Platform: Commodore Amiga and Super Nintendo Our next entry is a very early title that was flagged up to us by team member Karl Kuras, who spotted this interesting early Smash TV-looking title that was due for release … Continue reading
1996 Szymon Ulatowski Platform: Amiga 1200 A short entry for a title highlighted to us by contributor Stefano Castelli. This is an unofficial Boulder Dash clone done within a 3D environment. Even though you may argue about how well a … Continue reading
1993 Miracle Games Platform: Commodore Amiga Miracle Games Team were ambitiously trying to do a number of developments at one stage for the Commodore Amiga, which also included a revival of Dick Special. Sadly many titles mentioned would never see … 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
Breathless is a FPS game for the Amiga that was released in late 1995, and was shown in the press a lot at the time over the years. As a result, there were a number of early screens and demos … Continue reading
1994 Reflections Platform: Amiga Just a short post thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz, who has highlighted some screenshots showing assets that never appeared in the final game. Firstly, Amiga Format and Amiga Joker magazines both showed earlier versions of the title … Continue reading
2000 XTeam Software Platform: Amiga (AGA chipset) Brutal Speed was a racing game planned for the AGA Amiga, briefly previewed in Italian Games Machine magazine issue 65 under the name of Speed Mania. It was also known as Speed ManiaX … 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
Thanks to Stoo Cambridge for passing on his last remaining copy for preservation, Battle Ball has been finally recovered and released. This was due to be released on the Power House label, but sadly went under before it could be … Continue reading
Over the years, GTW64 has added titles to its archives which were mistakenly thought to have been abandoned and no longer in production. Rather than just remove them and forget about them – we have created this page to list … Continue reading
Following on from last week’s early screens from Beavers on the Amiga, Grzegorz Antosiewicz has dug out some early preview screens from Sensible Software’s brilliant Cannon Fodder. These screenshots are from when it was in early development, taken from magazines … Continue reading
Occasionally we take a break from covering games that were never released, but also look at titles that were released, but had some distinctive differences at one stage or another. Today we’re covering Cardiaxx, which was released by Electronic Zoo … Continue reading
Chatting with team member Gary Spence the other day, Gary wondered if he had perhaps an over-active imagination when looking at Elite’s Cataball game one evening. A game that was released on one of their Hit-Paks, but then spruced up … Continue reading
1998 Black Flag and Vulcan Software Platform: Commodore Amiga and PC By 1998, things were looking extremely bleak for the Amiga platform, but there were people still trying to keep the dream alive. None more so than Black Flag and … Continue reading
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