Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 3672
And so the updates continue. A lot of new entries, but also a number of updates with additional scans and bits from CCI, CU and ACE magazine: 8 new entries added Chainsaw Warrior, Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness, Jungle Book, … Continue reading
According to Commodore Computing International in December 1988, Active Distribution LTD had made a marketing deal with French company Coktel Vision. The first game to be released was Jungle Book. The game was to be an adventure game for children. … Continue reading
X-Men was to be a licenced game based on the comic and released by The Edge, but it is believed to got caught up in the same troubles which The Punisher had hit. Oddly, Ross Sillifant found a quick news … Continue reading
Hydrogenese was yet another game to come from the excellent X-Ample, who produced many stunning games. ASM magazine issue 7/89 had a short news feature that stated that Mario van Zeist and X-ample were hired to make games for Digital … Continue reading
A small entry for what was to be a game produced to try and help the dying C64 gaming market and contribute something for people to play. Being produced in the early 90’s, Gunz was a SEUCK effort where you … Continue reading
T-Runner was described by its preview snippet in ACE magazine (issue 4) as being a Marble Madness-type arcade adventure, set on a Marines training platform in space. After 300 years of lying idle, the central computer has gone haywire and … Continue reading
Xecutor is a pretty good vertical scrolling shooter which was released by ACE software (a sub company of The Edge) on the ZX Spectrum towards the end of 1987. The game was planned for release on the C64 just a … Continue reading
Michael Ware has very kindly recovered all the sources and demos for a early production of Biff that was cancelled. Interestingly it was also developed in 1989 for Zeit Productions – suggesting that Biff was originally meant to be for … Continue reading
It may come as something of a surprise, but it was recently revealed by Michael Ware (of Warhawk fame) that he was originally working on a conversion of Biff back in the day under his Proteus Developments label. Michael was … Continue reading
Our next GTW entry comes in the form of Honest Joe, a game by Bubble Bus Software and advertised in a Bubble Bus catalogue from around 1985 time. The game was also due for release on the BBC Micro. The … Continue reading
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