Kick Off
This is nothing to do with the Anco game series of the same name, but this particular Kick Off game was to be a conversion of the Jaleco coin-op from 1988, suggesting that this game was due for release around … Continue reading
Preserving Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Game History Since 1999
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This is nothing to do with the Anco game series of the same name, but this particular Kick Off game was to be a conversion of the Jaleco coin-op from 1988, suggesting that this game was due for release around … Continue reading
A very quick entry which was picked up upon by browsing through Thomas Mogensen’s work directory in HVSC. Within the directory are a large number of tunes for a game called Firefighter, which obviously must have been about firefighting. So … Continue reading

Another game, another title which was never really mentioned in the press – probably because this was a submission to a magazine, rather than a full commercial game it seems. This game was discovered on a disk in Darren Melbourne’s … Continue reading

Now then, our next entry is a title which was never advertised in the press or mentioned. It was highlighted to us when Andrew Morris (Magnetic Fields graphic artist, who did graphics for Kikstart 2, Lotus 2 and many others) … Continue reading
Hero is one of the lesser known Mega Game titles which Imagine Software were to release back in 1984. The series was to include around 6 games – with Hero to be the 3rd/4th title being done on both the … Continue reading
Novasoft was one of those early development companies for the C64 which disappeared as quickly as they arrived. I don’t think i’ve ever really seen anything to come out of the company. As the game name suggests, Cyclotron was a … Continue reading
Very little is known about Newt, apart from the fact that it was to eventually become Hyperactive by Special FX. Paul Hughes was writing the original at Ocean Software as his very first game, and was suggested to have been … Continue reading

Now, time for a bit of a surprise – back in the early 80’s, there was rumour of Software Project’s having internal competitions between developers to see who could get a conversion of Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy done … Continue reading
Very little is known about our next entry, apart from a brief mention in a scheduled music list from Maniacs of Noise. Chops by BWB – with BWB being Boys Without Brains. It is unknown exactly what the game is … Continue reading

Early days it may be as we attempt to find out more about yet another game that never was, we can in fact show a fair chunk of the game via some of its bitmap designs for levels and other … Continue reading
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