Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 80
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
We’re today adding a NES prototype of Disney’s Aladdin, which was released by Virgin Games in 1994, only in PAL regions. What makes this special is that this is a NTSC build recovered and dated 23-08-94 and seems to be very close to final (though there are a number of glitches present). It has been stated that the NTSC version was never released until now. 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
Thanks to Sailor of Triad, a rare prototype of Alien 3 for the Commodore 64 has just been discovered recently. This was a demo that was seemingly produced for producer Joe Bonar to take a look at back in the day to see progress with the project. 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.
1982 Epyx Platform: Commodore Vic 20 A short entry until we can confirm that there was indeed a Commodore VIC-20 conversion. Alien Garden was a computer generated art game, where you control an embryonic life-form that you must try and … Continue reading
1994 Ocean Software Platform: SEGA Game Gear A new week brings another exciting recovery at Games That Weren’t! Today, we’re unveiling a previously unknown SEGA Game Gear conversion of Alien Olympics – a game we had no idea existed until … Continue reading
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
1999 Fox Interactive Platform: Sony PlayStation and SEGA Saturn (unreleased) A short entry to share some screens showing a much earlier version of Alien Resurrection, featuring a 3rd person perspective for the game that was eventually dropped for a 1st … Continue reading
1994 Acclaim Platforms: SEGA 32X and Mega CD Way back in 1994 the Doom-style Alien Trilogy was slated to come out across just about all platforms. It came out on the Playstation, PC and Sega Saturn back in 1995 but … 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
A quick post to show some magazine scans reporting on the cancelled Aliens: Colonial Marines title on the PS2, thanks to Ross Sillifant. Seems even more staggering that as technology grows, the expense of cancellations is far greater – especially … 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
A lovely curiosity added to the archives today thanks to Marco Das, with the preservation of a very rare non-playable demo of Alleykat distributed by Hewson back in the day. It was likely for shops to showcase the game in … Continue reading
Just a quick post to put back up the Alligata Master disks and Maniacs of Noise SFX files that we had on the old site. It seemed a shame they were tucked away out of sight – so here they … Continue reading
1993 Thalion Platform: Atari ST and PC (DOS) Amberstar was a great RPG title released on the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC back in 1992 by Thalion, and was to be part of a trilogy that was never to … Continue reading
Following on from the exciting launch of the Konix Multi-system emulator and a runnable preview of AMC’89, the guys from the Slipstream: The Konix Multi-system archive have now released the sources which can be grabbed from here: https://github.com/SavourySnaX/AOTMC89 This has … Continue reading
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”.
Before you say it, this is NOT the same Amok game as the Berzerk clone by UMI. This was a game created by Blake Senftner for EathenRoss Software around 1982 time. Blake described the game as a kind of Choplifter rescue game, but people would shoot at you, and you would shoot back at them. Continue reading
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