Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
We are a 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.
A short entry to cover two missing titles from a company called Bible Research Systems, with thanks to Håvar Bruvold Hojem for flagging up.
The company advertised two titles:
Both were advertised for Apple, IBM PC, C64, TRS80, Kaypro, CPM 2.2 and MS DOS.
They may well have been released, just in limited numbers but are yet to be preserved. If you know anything more, please let us know.
Following on from the recent recovery of Scarabaeus 2, yet another Andromeda preview has been found and recovered thanks again to Thomas Sol Sunhede and Hedning, Zyron and Whisper of Genesis Project.
Again, this disk was in a bundle of Greve Graphics games, which suggests that Andromeda sent this and Scarabaeus 2 to pitch the games in some way.
The game is a graphical adventure game where you play a journalist who has an opportunity to bring a large scale case to light at Hotel Mogul. You type in commands to progress through the game.
In terms of progression, there is a fair amount of content to this preview, but Whisper (after hours of testing/playing through) has found that it seems to be incomplete and with flaws that prevent it from being completable.
When playing the preview, we highly recommend reading the accompanying and detailed note file first, which talks through how to play the game and some of the flaws present.
At this moment in time, we’re not sure who the developer was and why the game never saw a release in the end. Was it perhaps by the same developers as Interview? We will try and find any press details relating to the title to try and shed more light soon.
For now, check out this brilliant recovery by Genesis Project!
Another combined entry for a series of titles from Sprites Software, which may or may not have been released. At present the following titles are missing:
Can you help us find these titles and see them preserved?
Rapt is confirmed as released (see above), but not yet preserved. Confirmed by Marco ‘Exile’ Das.
With thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog from http://www.atarimania.com for flagging up the titles.
Another combined entry for a series of titles from Micro Application, which may or may not have been released. At present the following titles are missing:
Can you help us find these titles and see them preserved?
Thanks to Marco ‘Exile’ Das, we have learnt that all three titles were released, but are just yet to be digitally preserved:
Hopefully all three will be digitally preserved soon. We will keep this entry open until all three are preserved and available.
With thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog from http://www.atarimania.com for flagging up the titles.
Confirmed that it was finished and released as Iketa.
Case closed!
A nice looking Tetris clone that was produced back in 1994 but sadly never got much further than its preview that sneaked out.
Not too much to say apart from that it looks nice and plays ok, but still a bit of work to go to put into a polished final piece.
Did it get any further than this, or was it abandoned around this stage? If you know anything more, please let us know.
Another combined entry for a series of titles from K-TEK Software, which may or may not have been released. At present the following titles are missing:
Can you help us find these titles and see them preserved?
With thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog from http://www.atarimania.com for flagging up the titles, Paladin for finding and preserving Wolf Attack and Allan Pinkerton for finding and preserving Stomp Ground, Sky Diving and Crystal Mountain!
Another combined entry for a series of titles from Daybreak Software, which may or may not have been released. At present the following titles are missing:
Can you help us find these titles and see them preserved?
With thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog from http://www.atarimania.com for flagging up the titles.
A new and strange unfinished title which was found by Csaba Virag, created by someone in Hungary called Osvath in 1987.
This is a very simple Pong style title which is far from finished, with just some basic ball mechanics working, but only one player in the middle and no collision detection.
This may likely have just been a small personal development project that never went any further. It would be interesting to learn if it ever got any further. Hopefully Osvath will see his work here some day and be able to comment.
A short entry for now for a title that was developed for PSS by David Bolton (who had created titles such as Johnny Reb II for MC Lothlorien.
Unfortunately the title cannot be recalled, but this was a title developed in 1988 and is believed to be unpublished. There does not seem to be any titles that match the description – if you find anything, please let us know.
David described the game as follows:
“It was about Robots fighting and scavenging metal on a planet and building new robots. It had 24 sprites (multiplexing) and used all 64KB RAM.”
Sadly David no longer has anything of the game, so it is hoped that something sent to PSS may turn up someday. Or that we discover that the game was released in a different form.
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