Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
We are an Cancelled & Unreleased Video games archive with prototypes, developer history and assets for many computers and consoles of all ages. A non-profit large archive dedicated to preserving lost games that were never released to the public. Sharing history and stories from the developers, assets and more before it is too late. GTW has been preserving lost video game history online since 1999, and long before that offline.
Please Browse our archive and discover the many entries that we host for many different platforms.
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Micrograms, Inc, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog.
These were Commodore 64 titles listed in The Software Encyclopedia – 1985-86 published by R. R. Bowker, and seem to be missing:
Can you help us find these titles and see them preserved?
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Micro-Ed, Inc, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog.
These were Commodore 64 titles listed in The Software Encyclopedia – 1985-86 published by R. R. Bowker, and seem to be missing:
Can you help us find these titles and see them preserved?
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Krell Software, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog.
These were Commodore 64 titles listed in The Software Encyclopedia – 1985-86 published by R. R. Bowker, and seem to be missing:
Can you help us find these titles and see them preserved?
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from JMH Software of Minnesota, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog.
These were Commodore 64 titles listed in The Software Encyclopedia – 1985-86 published by R. R. Bowker, and seem to be missing:
Can you help us find these titles and see them preserved?
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Island Software, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog.
These were Commodore 64 titles listed in The Software Encyclopedia – 1985-86 published by R. R. Bowker, and seem to be missing:
Can you help us find these titles and see them preserved?
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Intellectual Software, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog.
These were Commodore 64 titles listed in The Software Encyclopedia – 1985-86 published by R. R. Bowker, and seem to be missing:
Can you help us find these titles and see them preserved?
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Boston Educational Computing, Inc, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog.
These were Commodore 64 titles listed in The Software Encyclopedia – 1985-86 published by R. R. Bowker, and seem to be missing:
Can you help us find these titles and see them preserved?
A very short entry, flagged up to us by Fabrizio Bartoloni. This is for a title called Terragon, which may well have been released, but has yet to be preserved.
This is an Italian title that was being sold by by BA.SE s.n.c and was highlighted recently on Andrea Panchetti’s blog.
The game was described as follows:
“Tactics and strategy among the stars, in a war which, in order not to destroy the earth in a nuclear holocaust, becomes a wild race to expand into space. Become commander of a supership of the future you will have to explore and colonize the space, between dangers of aliens, black holes, ghost planets, magnetic distortions and more; the final result will depend on the intelligence with which you built the on-board computer, as well as your reaction speed and maneuvering skills. From one to four players for a game that combines logical construction and tactical possibilities on a level equal to that of 3-D chess with a high learning facility.”
Hopefully the game can be found some day and crossed off the list for posterity. If you can help find it, please get in touch or with Andrea directly via his blog above.
A very short entry, flagged up to us by Fabrizio Bartoloni. This is for a title called Code 3, which may well have been released, but has yet to be preserved.
This is an Italian title that was being sold by by BA.SE s.n.c and was highlighted recently on Andrea Panchetti’s blog.
The game was described as follows:
“Have you ever held another person’s life in your hands? What would you do if you received a desperate call for help? In this situation you will need all your coolness, because a man is dying, and you are the only ones who can help him. To your medical knowledge, but above all to your common sense, the task of solving problems, in the fight against communication difficulties, illness and time. Extreme realism for a game that is also a way to acquire a very useful first aid experience as well as control of a few nerves.”
Hopefully the game can be found some day and crossed off the list for posterity. If you can help find it, please get in touch or with Andrea directly via his blog above.
A short entry for now, for what was a very promising Ghostbusters tribute on the C64 in PETSCII format by Dave Izon.
The object of the game was to capture 2 types of ghosts, one with ghost traps and the other which you would hit for bonus points. Once 3 ghosts are caught, you’d head to the elevator and move to the next level. Only one level was ever produced it seems.
Progressing very well as part of a programming exercise to learn about assembly, David Crane advised against releasing the title as he may get in trouble with the licence holders. As a result, Dave seemingly abandoned the game and has no plans to release in any shape or form to avoid any potential copyright issues.
For now we add some screenshots of this promising game, and you can also see a video of the game in action at https://youtu.be/dTGeBUadFk8
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