Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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A quick news post to highlight that System 3 have launched a new Kickstarter to release a special Last Ninja collection on various platforms including PS5, PS4, Switch and PC. Why are we reporting this? Well, the Diamond Ultimate Collection … Continue reading
After some digging around and very careful tape backing up, Jeff Minter has discovered and released a whole range of unseen Llamasoft games on the Vic 20 platform (and one on the Commodore PET). In maybe a weekend of preservation … Continue reading
Thanks to Ken Knight for bringing it to our attention that the long lost Mega Drive conversion of Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth has recently been released by independent publisher Columbus Circle, some 26 years after it was intended originally. … Continue reading
Thanks to Peter Weighill for the heads up, but some exciting developments over at the World of Spectrum as Mark R Jones has uncovered a rather rare and previously unpreserved clone of the arcade game Popeye cheekily called “Popie“. Popie … Continue reading
A great article has been published regarding the unreleased Jack The Ripper for Amiga and with mock-ups for an abandoned online version for PC. Thanks to https://mastodon.world/@mr_creosote@dosgame.club for sharing. https://goodolddays.net/en/game/Jack-the-Ripper/ Any new info or snippets, we’ll add to the gallery … Continue reading
I’ve been chatting to two guys called Simon and Ekkehard, who used to develop a lot of Vic 20 games back in the day. In recent times, they had tried to recover their long lost work – but were having … Continue reading
A very short post to highlight some unreleased Magnavox Odyssey 2 unreleased games and prototypes flagged up by Fabrizio Bartoloni: Terrahawks (Prototype) Tutankham (GTW) Spider-Man (Prototype) If you haven’t seen these before, then worth checking out – especially the detailed … Continue reading
Right under our noses all along! The long “lost” Commodore 64 Codemasters game Magnum Force has finally been fully preserved today thanks to Nostalgia, after being hidden on the Codemasters CD compilation and undetected for over 30 years. Check it … Continue reading
Steve Wetherill has just created a post with details of Heart of Yesod, including the raw original Q&A that was used to aid producing the write up the GTW book. The design document from 1989 has also been typed up … Continue reading
A quick post thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog, to highlight the recent recovery of an unpreserved educational title for the C64 called Matchmaker: Grammar. Released in 1983 by American Educational Computer. The disk was preserved by SoulBuster on the … Continue reading
I’ve just seen this message from Gilby on World of Spectrum regarding the recently discovered discs: To date, the Spectrum Mega Twins disc has been successfully dumped, plus two Amstrad discs with Mega Twins on it… There are other proto … Continue reading
Two weeks ago, a posting was made to the World of Spectrum forum indicating that demo versions of the Amstrad CPC and Sinclair Spectrum versions of unreleased US Gold/Capcom game Mega Twins were being auctioned on eBay. The Amstrad version … Continue reading
We’ve just added 4 new entries for a set of Mindcraft titles that were due for release between 1993 and 1994 for PC DOS. Gryphon Masters, Dominion, CyberGO and Mechamander are all currently at large. How far did they get? … Continue reading
Not technically a Game That Wasn’t, but a lovely story from Ready64, where Modulus on the Commodore 64 was released with content missing, so it was not possible to complete. One of the coders Ivan Del Duca has now restored … Continue reading
Thanks to the amazing efforts of contributor Allan Pinkerton, two more unpreserved C64 titles have now been preserved in the form of the final missing Playwriter title – Castles and Creatures (which goes now with the other titles preserved in … Continue reading
Another GTW64 update for the (far too) hot month of July, including: 5 new Karl Hornell entries added Chopperman, Clod Jumper, Commodore Juicer, Hex-Bert, Qrazy Qber 3 updates also added Bushido Warrior, Chainsaw Warrior, Nighthunter
Keeping up the updates for March, we have the following updates for you: 1 new entry added Droidz 6 updates added Flight Deck 2, Heebie Jeebies, Lusitania, Mega Twins, Orcus, Viking Child
A bonus post to finish the week. Recently Fabrizio Bartoloni flagged up someone called BloodyCactus looking at an unreleased C64 adventure game called The Mermaid and the Crown. Whilst looking into details to try and add entries onto the site, … Continue reading
Recently my good friend of 27 years, Jason Kelk, sadly lost his 15 month battle with COVID. It’s still sinking in that he’s no longer with us, so to try and help process things I wrote a blog post about … Continue reading
Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni for flagging up, but Atari Mania have recently announced recovery of four games by General Masters Corporation for the Atari 400/800 which apparently were never released. Mike Burkhart kindly dumped the games in 2022: Con Job … Continue reading
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