Preserving Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 24
We are blessed to have a number of various preservation projects dedicated to unreleased/prototype games, especially with the vast number of platforms out there to try and preserve for. The Hidden Palace have for many years been preserving various prototypes … Continue reading
1995 Mirage Technologies Platform: Amiga CD32, PC, Super Nintendo, SEGA Saturn and Sony Playstation Also known as Mayhem, and released eventually as Bedlam A short entry thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz of a cool isometric action game with a mix of … 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
1997 Rebellion Platforms: Sony PlayStation, Atari Jaguar CD edition and SEGA Saturn Thanks to Ross Sillifant for the heads up, a short clip of what seems to be the unreleased PlayStation version of Aliens vs Predator can be found in … 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
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 cards according to Amiga Computer Studio. There were also plans for Mac and PlayStation versions too. 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
1995 Psygnosis Platforms: PC and Sony PlayStation Elric: The Almon’s Mission was an RPG title being developed by Psygnosis way back in 1995, based on the character by Michael Moorcock. The game was intended for release on both PC CD … Continue reading
1997-2004 Confounding Factor Platforms: PC, Sony PlayStation, Sony PlayStation 2, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube A short entry on a title that was being created by Confounding Factor, a company founded in 1997 by former Core Design’s Toby Gard and Paul … Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.9: In April, we looked at Into The Shadows – an impressive 3D fantasy fighting game developed for Scavenger in 1996 for PC, PlayStation + Sega Saturn. Only a rolling demo currently exists, but something playable is hoped … Continue reading
1996 Scavenger / Frozen Moose Entertainment Platforms: PC DOS, Sony PlayStation and SEGA Saturn Into the Shadows (ITS) was a 3D fighting game, originally scheduled for release in 1995, and was being programmed by Magnus Högdahl and Fredrik Huss, with … Continue reading
1996-2018 System 3 Platforms: PC, Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2, PSX, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 + others Also known as: “The Last Ninja – Return to Lin Fen Island” When you think of System 3, The Last Ninja series probably comes … Continue reading
MELT was an ambitious Iron Maiden game developed by London’s Virtual Studios during the mid-1990s, with Eddie taking on the role of the game’s villain. Announced alongside Iron Maiden’s Best of the Beast campaign, it promised a fully 3D adventure through time and space, with the player hunting down Eddie’s scattered energy Pods before ultimately facing him in Hyperspace.
Although the game was heavily promoted and appears to have come surprisingly close to completion, Virtual Studios collapsed in 1997 and MELT was never released. For years, the game was known mainly through screenshots, promotional material and a brief appearance on GamesMaster.
That changed in September 2026, when Games That Weren’t was anonymously supplied with a surviving PC build, the original source code, an updated version of the source with modern fixes, and further development material. Continue reading
1998 System 3 Platform: Sony PlayStation, PC, Nintendo 64 and SEGA Saturn A fantastic game which I have very fond memories playing on my Commodore 64, Myth: History in the Making was due to be revived by System 3 for … Continue reading
Back in 2012, Games That Weren’t were pleased to release two tech demos for download for the original PlayStation. The demos were from games developer Realtime Associates and were pitch submissions for contracts for Robocop and Gen 13. This piece … 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
1996 Accolade Platforms: Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation A short entry for now on what sadly was to be an abandoned conversion of Star Control III for both the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation platforms. The game was eventually released … Continue reading
1996 Dynabyte Platform: Sony PlayStation The Killing Tool was to be a cyberpunk platformer created by Dynabyte Software back in 1996 for the Sony PlayStation and possibly other platforms too. Thanks to The Genesis Temple and gaming historian Damiano Gerli, … Continue reading
1999 Runecraft Platform: Sony PlayStation A short entry for what was to be an educational based title created for the Sony PlayStation by Runecraft around 1999 time, based on the famous children’s series. Thanks to lead artist David Tolley, we … Continue reading
Tricks ‘N’ Treasures was a colourful third-person action/platform game in development at Hammerhead for Psygnosis around 1999-2000. The name seems to have changed slightly depending on where it appeared, with magazine coverage referring to it as TnT: Tricks and Treasures, TNT: Tricks and Treasure, Trick n Treasure and Tricks ‘N’ Treasures.
Very little seems to have survived publicly from the game, although it received a reasonable amount of magazine coverage before disappearing. We’ve included a selection of those previews within the gallery below, which between them give us a rough idea of what Hammerhead was creating. Continue reading
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