Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 479
1992 Core Design Platform: Atari ST I loved Chuck Rock on the Amiga, and even the C64 edition that was pretty impressive at the time. It comes when a sequel was created and released on a number of platforms including … Continue reading
1993 Fission Software Platform: Commodore Amiga Chuck’s World by Fission Software was an unreleased Amiga platform game that was based on various animations about a character named Chuck, created by Steve Packer and released in Public Domain. The main character … Continue reading
1994-1996 Microprose Software Platform: PC Also known as: Little People Inspired by Activision’s Little Computer People, Citizens: Backwater Affairs originally started out as a game called Little People, before it was renamed due to the name being taken already by … Continue reading
1998 Titan Computers Platform: Amiga 1200 Claws of the Devil is a late Amiga title that was in development back in 1998, and was a first person action game for platforms with expanded memory, additional graphics cards and PPC turbo … Continue reading
1992 Ocean Software Platform: Super Nintendo Brian Flanagan has been in the games industry for over 30 years, working on well over 40 shipped titles. He once worked at Ocean Software for around 10 years, working (uncredited) on Operation Wolf … Continue reading
1998 Low-Level Productions Platform: Commodore Amiga Combat Remix was a late Amiga fighting game that was due for release back in 1998 from a group called Low Level, highlighted to GTW thanks to regular Grzegorz Antosiewicz. This is a short … Continue reading
2006 Relic Entertainment Platform: Mobile J2ME A short entry for a Java Platform mobile conversion of a classic real-time strategy game that many of us have lost hours to over the years – including myself on PC over multiplayer. It … Continue reading
1985 Incentive Software Platform: Dragon 32 This is a short entry to extend our Dragon 32 entries into the Games That Weren’t archive, with what was to be a conversion of the popular C64 game – Confuzion. The conversion was … Continue reading
1982 Vid Kidz Platform: Arcade 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 a detailed … Continue reading
A big thanks to Paul Drury for flagging this up for GTW after a recent Retro Gamer magazine article with Larry DeMar. After Vid Kidz had delivered Stargate to Williams, Larry had begun working on a new project called “Conquest” … Continue reading
1991-1992 System 3 Platforms: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC Many of you will be aware of Constructor, the classic construction yard game developed by System 3 and released by Acclaim in 1997. Released on PC, and then later PlayStation … Continue reading
1995 The Hidden Platform: Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 Our next entry into the archives is an unreleased platform game called Construxion, which was being developed by a team called The Hidden back in 1995. Some sources suggest it was … Continue reading
1984 Ultimate Play The Game Platform: BBC Micro Generally if we talk of unreleased games and Ultimate, instantly we think back to the infamous “Mire Mare” which has haunted us for many years. Instead we have had to make do … Continue reading
2007 HarmlessLion (Previously Alten 8) Platform: Nintendo DS Cool Herders is a neat unofficial and independently created commercial title for the SEGA Dreamcast that was published around 2005. A Nintendo DS version was put into production, but was sadly never … Continue reading
Countdown was an adventure game consisting of digitized characters and with synthesized speech, eventually released in 1991 for MS-DOS. According to the PC version’s review in The One magazine (February 1991) – Amiga and Atari ST versions were due in autumn of that year. Continue reading
1996 Bullfrog Productions Platforms: Amiga CD 32, PC, Sony PlayStation and SEGA Saturn 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 DLC content … Continue reading
1991 Thalamus Platform: ZX Spectrum Following on from our recent post about a long lost conversion of Creatures 2 for the Amiga, we now take a look at a planned ZX Spectrum conversion – and one which seemed to get … Continue reading
1992 Thalamus Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga Creatures 1 and 2 were two fantastically cute, but violent titles from Apex Computer Productions, and published by Thalamus during the early 1990s. So popular, it was decided to convert Creatures to … Continue reading
1989 Imageworks Platform: Amiga A very short entry for a title already covered on Amiga GTW, where you can find screenshots and a rolling demo to download – as well as a Q/A with creator Paolo Costabel. When the game … Continue reading
1984 Mikro Gen Platform: BBC Micro Dave Moore from Retro Software has recently informed us of a long lost BBC micro conversion of Cruise Attack by Mikro Gen being found safe and well. This was sold to Dave Moore back … Continue reading
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