Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 876
1992 Codemasters Platforms: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC It’s with thanks to the wonderful yolkfolk.com website and their eagle eyes that we learn of yet another Dizzy game that never was. This was no arcade or arcade adventure game … Continue reading
Legacy of the Fallen was an ambitious add-on pack developed by Anarchy Arts as an expansion for the 1998 first-person shooter Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. The project began in late 1998 after Monolith Productions, the creators of Shogo, approached Anarchy Arts with an offer to develop the add-on. For the relatively young and unknown studio, this was an exciting opportunity to make a name and earn revenue, so they accepted. Continue reading
Following the success of Lego Lord of the Rings, based on/inspired by Peter Jackson’s Oscar winning film trilogy based on the works by JRR Tolkien, Warner Interactive Entertainment and Traveller’s Tales (developer of previous Lego games) began work in 2013 on Lego The Hobbit. Again based on/inspired by Peter Jackson’s films, based on Tolkien’s novel. Continue reading
1993 TCFS Platform: Commodore Plus/4 Back when Lemmings was being converted to every platform under the sun, the poor old Plus/4 was being neglected, having long been abandoned commercially. That however didn’t stop Tamás Sasvári (code) and Csaba Kémeri (graphics) … Continue reading
1994 Psygnosis Platform: Commodore Amiga 1200 A surprising entry for now thanks to Keith Gilliland for the heads up, after a post was recently made on Reddit about the Amiga being ahead of its time graphically. From what seems to … Continue reading
Flicking through the last issue of Zzap!64 back in late 1992, I rediscovered an early screenshot and the first to be shown of the Commodore 64 version of Lemmings. It would be a year until the final game saw release. … 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
Not really an unreleased game, but some bits and bobs that could be nice to save if they still exist. Looking at the preview screens in Zzap for the 3D Construction Kit, as well as an earlier editor kit, there … 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
Please visit our new GTW Vic 20 page at https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/vic-20-games-that-werent/
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 short entry for a title that was created by Russ Wetmore, and one of the last games they worked on before moving onto new platforms. Unfortunately the game was never released, but thankfully it was recovered in 2015 via the AtariAge forums and Kay Savetz. Continue reading
1985 Ultimate Lunar Jetman was part of a huge classic genre on the Spectrum that spawned a few games by Ultimate featuring the Jetman character. The range of games however never quite made their way onto the C64. Spectrum users … Continue reading
1993 Dark Technologies Platform: Multi-System 2 (successor to the Konix Multi-system) A rather special entry here for what is thought to be one of the only completed titles for the hardware that evolved from the failed Konix Multi-System, a game … 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
1984 Datasoft Platforms: Atari 400/800, Apple II and PC If you have never played Mancopter on the Commodore 64, then you are really missing out. It is one of the great early C64 games which feels like an extended version … Continue reading
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