Preserving Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Game History Since 1999
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Mumbles – Super Spy was another cool looking game from Databyte, and was advertised with their released game, Polar Pierre within all the popular magazines at the time. Just how the game would have played is anyone’s guess. As far … Continue reading
This was to be the original NightShift game, as it started out.. with a victorian toy-making machine. Lucasfilm later stepped in and had all the toys changed and the game changed to what was eventually released as “Nightshift”. It is … Continue reading
A quick entry for a slightly different looking Movie Monster game that was in various magazines at the time. Happy Computer in particular were presented with a preview of “The Movie Monster” in the Spring of 1986 which had a … Continue reading
A GTW title that could be vapourware, but we can confirm there was planning to have a sequel to the fairly well recieved Mothership game that was originally released in 1983 by Softsync and then republished by Artic later. The … Continue reading
Another very early preview, Moppel is a simplistic side scroller where you control some guy that I think is in a wheelchair and scrolls across a city landscape. It’s quite simple, and apart from the scrolling and some little animations, … Continue reading
This game has been brought to our attention thanks to Wayne Womersley of Art Ravers, who regularly writes for Commodore Scene. And it is from that particular magazine where this game stems from… Moon Gods was being designed for Commodore … Continue reading
Since the craze of Wolfenstein and Doom on the PC’s in the early 90’s, we saw a new breakthrough in gaming. Seeing this kind of game even on the likes of a SNES or an Amiga was pretty impressive to … Continue reading
Monster Museum was mentioned in March 1989 of The Games Machine as coming soon with the following blurb – “Other games on Palace’s mean menu include Monster Museum, an arcade adventure with graphics by Gary Carr and main programming by … Continue reading
Another V1 title, with an interesting story behind it too! It was always wondered by Andrew Fisher if originally Antony Crowther’s “Challenge of the Gobots” game was something else before. Well we now have confirmation thanks to Andrew that the … Continue reading
This isn’t much of a game, but in some way I actually like it. You control a very colourful glow-worm type creature, which flys through a colourful set of parallax stars backdrop. You must collect as many of the objects … Continue reading
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