Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 3695
Yet another title enters the archives, and this time by the development team behind Lemmings on the Amiga. This was obtained from DMA Design’s own tribute webpage, and was released into the world by Mike Dailly for people to check … Continue reading
Many of you may remember this game from the later days of Zzap64, created by Kevin Murphy, whom originally tried to sell the game through mail order. Well, before that, Thrusterball was sent to various big games companies of the … Continue reading
Tears of Rage was an RPG title talked about briefly within issues of both Commodore Format and Zzap!64 during the early 90’s. An up and coming game from U.S. Gold. Nothing was much known about the game until we heard … Continue reading
Around the time of Chris Shrigley’s early success with Bounder, Gremlin Graphics were regularly employing the skills of what was later to be come Core Design. Chris was assigned to a game called Task 2, which was apparently named due … Continue reading
Swords and Sorcery was originally announced in 1984, as a revolutionary computer role-playing game, claimed by its designer Mike Simpson to be the first of its kind. It eventually did surface on the Spectrum and Amstrad, earning considerable critical acclaim, … Continue reading
Sword of the Samurai was a strategy game set in 15th Century Japan, written for the PC in 1989 by Microprose Software. It was a fairly well recieved game, and some people had fond memories of it: http://www.links.net/dox/warez/games/microprose/samurai/ As you … Continue reading
A very unknown GTW title which has only really come to light because of some documentation that came to light with proposals of a game for Empire on the Commodore 64 called Sword of Abbadon. All we know about the … Continue reading
Sword of the Samurai was based on a Fighting Fantasy gamebook by Ian Livingstone & Steve Jackson. Two earlier books – Rebel Planet and Temple of Terror – had already been published as text/graphic adventures, and so this would probably … Continue reading
Another coin-op conversion by the arcade conversion masters, Elite. This was to be a conversion of the popular arcade game, and was an ambitious one to do at that. Sadly although mentioned (albeit briefly) in Commodore Format, the game never … Continue reading
An interesting version of Starforce, or so it seemed. X-Ample did both Starforce and Mega Starforce, with the later being released in 1993. This demo from 1994 seems to be a clone attempt of some sort. Super Starforce is basically … Continue reading
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