Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Steve Bak (author of the Cuthbert games as well as Hercules and C64 Ghostbusters 2) was one of the first Atari ST programmers, owning the UK’s first development kit and working on games before its official UK release. His 16-bit … Continue reading
After the first great puzzler, Demonware decided that a sequel was in order, and so the C64 version was put into planning… but how about production? We are not sure, but Peter Thierolf tells us that he remembers not much, … Continue reading
In 2009, Hungarian musician Peter Nagy-Miklos (NecroPolo) – with the help of iAN CooG – released several previously unheard tunes. Included among them was all the music for an unfinished game known as “Geister”. Peter describes what happened: “My second … Continue reading
Not so much a title as the year this unfinished game was worked on, CyberCore was a project by the C64 sceners Carrion and Zephyr, the latter from a group called Inflexion Development that dissolved in 1993. According to Carrion, … Continue reading
It was thought that this possibly may have been released as Combat Crazy, due to the fact that the game has a tune in it mean’t for G.I. Hero, and also G.I. Hero and Combat Crazy sound like two similar … Continue reading
Right, something a little new and previously unseen by the makers of Creatures, Apex Productions. This is in fact a very very early preview of what eventually turned into “Creatures”. This was a test demo created to test some graphics … Continue reading
Elite is undoubtfully one of the masterpieces of space exploration games in the history of computing, and there isn’t really an enthusiast or game player above the age of 18 who hasn’t heard of the game. Nothing has really beaten … Continue reading
Future shock is a very early preview, containing a few detailed organic landscapes and nothing much else. The ship can move through objects and there are no other creatures to kill or find. The game was actually to be a … Continue reading
A very quick entry which was highlighted by Romppainen. Fusion was an average shooter produced by Bullfrog for Electronic Arts on the Amiga back in 1988. Nothing unusual there, but Romppainen highlights that the game was listed as being released … Continue reading
An educational game from Fisher Price this time, and one of a few titles which never got shipped by Roger Pedersen. We aren’t sure yet if he had any development time on the C64 version, or the Apple. Most of … Continue reading
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