Preserving Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Game History Since 1999
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In the early 90’s, quite a few games were mentioned for UK release by Italian company “Idea”, and quite a few did actually make it over here… Apart from Sturmtruppen. Sturmtruppen was described as a sort of Midnight Resistance style … Continue reading
“Strobe” is a new addition to GTW, in which at the time, not a lot of information was known. The game was an up and coming Pong style game set in the future, and the preview in the wild was … Continue reading
A great little finding which has come to GTW thanks to Roberto Nicoletti. Steel Robot was produced by Italian Simone Balestra who programmed Clik Clak for Idea Software in the early 90’s. It was the result of a conversation with … Continue reading
More Apex, more unreleased works now in the form of Squish, a 4 way scrolling isometric squashing game. Possibly similar to Maze Mania, with the aim to squash creatures and have their blood change the colour of tiles. Apparently very … Continue reading
Briefly mentioned in a magazine from the mid 80’s, there was apparently plans for a 4th game in the Spy Vs Spy series. The third game ends with our two spys being blasted into space. Therefore the theme of the … Continue reading
Rather strange named game, short for Super Powered Urban Device, our next entry is a rather strange SEU where you control a helicopter seemingly in space. It’s very similiar in some ways to the bizzare Airwolf 2 game (Which was … Continue reading
Quite early, and a poor mismatch of graphics and sound mixed into this preview. The game feels like a random set of graphics and sprites bolted together to make a quick game. There doesn’t seem to be much about it, … Continue reading
Another game which was said to be released from Kele Line in 1987 (Mentioned in Soft magazine). It is another title from Kele Line which we know little about, but we can guess what happened to it anyway. Maybe it … Continue reading
Source Of Light is a promising Uridium clone demo by Christoph Demper, who was only around 14yrs old at the time when he developed this game. Christoph had this to say about his game…"This was the first try and machine … Continue reading
A game being produced by R Pedersen, who developed a number of games which never made the light of day. The games were all made in MSDOS first, then ported easily over to the C64 and Apple machines. This game … Continue reading
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