Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 470
2006 Unknown Platform: Mobile J2ME A short entry for a Java Platform mobile de-make of Rogue Trooper, 3rd person shooter game that was released on many platforms of the time in 2006. The game of course was based upon the … Continue reading
1991 Cinemaware / Mirrorsoft Platform: Commodore Amiga and PC We’d not long been greeted by the wonderful Speedball 2, when Mirrorsoft were keen to release yet another futuristic sports game in the form of Rollerblades in late 1991. The game … Continue reading
1991 Team 17 Platform: Commodore Amiga It hadn’t been long since the release of Speedball 2, when Team 17 decided to get in on the act. Whereas Speedball 2 was inspired by the classic 1975 film, Team 17 may have … Continue reading
1992 Atari Games Platform: Atari Lynx As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus content to share with you. Within the book is … Continue reading
1992 Virgin Platforms: Commodore Amiga, PC and Atari ST Our next entry looks very much like an isometric version of Cannon Fodder, also released by Virgin, but this was around 1-2 years before that game. This particular title was in … Continue reading
1991 Rainbow Arts Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and PC Not to be confused with the recent Psytronik release of the same name, Rotator was a one/two player tank game, where you would have to link a number of generators … Continue reading
1993 Thalamus Platforms: Commodore Amiga and PC A short entry for a title due for release by Thalamus on the Amiga and PC late into the publisher’s life (thanks to Kevin Tilley for flagging this one up to cover). This … Continue reading
1985 Peter Tjernström Platform: ZX Spectrum Our next ZX Spectrum title in the archives is a missing Swedish adventure based on Lord of the Rings (and even named so in Swedish!), which came first in a competition. The creator was … Continue reading
2000 Trecision Platform: PC Gaming historian Damiano Gerli of The Genesis Temple in August 2021 produced a wonderful 3 part article on the history of Italian video game developer Trecision, which we highly recommend checking out if you haven’t already … Continue reading
2000 Frey United Software Platform: Amiga 1200 Following on from last week’s post on Euro Round-Up: Czech Republic, another recovery has been made from the archives of Frey United Software with another football manager game due out for the Commodore … Continue reading
1991 U.S. Gold Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga Saragossa was to be a space fantasy game set within the distant future, developed by the Liverpool-based Kinetica team who had created Gold of the Aztecs. An arcade adventure spread across … Continue reading
1990 Hewson Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga John Phillips was a brilliant developer who created classics such as Nebulus and Eliminator, and was to extend his exciting catalog of games with a new title called Scavenger for Hewson software … Continue reading
1986 Elite Platforms: ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 Dragons Lair was a technical marvel in the early 80s with its impressive Laser Disc technology. Elite jumped on the bandwagon with their licence of the popular cartoon series. Whereas Dragons … Continue reading
1983 Big Five Software Platforms: Atari 2600, 5200, 400 and 800 Following Miner 2049er, Bounty Bob was now set for the Big City and its fire department, where he must fight a major skyscraper fire in what was to be … Continue reading
1993 MicroProse Platform: PC PC Review magazine in August 1993 described Secret of the 7th Labyrinth as requiring you to “Zoom around killing things and make sure you do it fast”. There were also comparisons to Wolfenstein, which the whole … Continue reading
1993 Renegade Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System We all like (good) surprises, and hopefully our next entry into the Games That Weren’t archives will be just that. Back when Enigma Variations were porting Sensible Soccer to the original Game Boy, unbeknown … Continue reading
1989-1995 SideFX/Kimera Studios Platform: Commodore Amiga Our next title has come under various names over the years, Sergei, Sergei – the showdown and Sergei and the Isle of Belphegor. It sounds like a trio of games, but this was just … Continue reading
1994 Denton Designs Platforms: PC, Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn Retro Gamer issue 113 had once featured an excellent feature on the trilogy of Shadowfire by Martyn Carroll. Trilogy? Well, you’ll need to check out the article to find out … Continue reading
Our next entry into the archives is a title that we hadn’t been aware of until it suddenly turned up during an archive search. We believe that the game was to be called ShelShock, and was written by Finlay Munro as part of Finetime Software. It may have been possibly a working title, and no story is known for it. Continue reading
1985 Bantam Software Platforms: Apple II, PCjr and potentially Commodore 64 (TBC) Planned as a sequel to Sherlock Holmes: Another Bow, which was released by Bantam Software in 1984 on a variety of 8-bit platforms. Sadly it was never to … Continue reading
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