Preserving Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Game History Since 1999
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Crystal Software and Electronics were an ambitious software house trying to save the C64 gaming market back in 1997 with a large range of planned releases. Sadly it wasn’t to be, and as with other companies – it was found … Continue reading
Our next GTW entry comes in the form of a Slapfight style vertical scrolling shoot-em-up which was being produced by Paul Hughes. It was originally assumed to have been produced for Ocean, but it seemed that in fact the game … Continue reading
Another game for the archives, this time a title mentioned by Mat Allen, and a game by Melbourne House. This game was briefly mentioned in some magazines and a few adverts were printed. The game actually surfaced on the Spectrum … Continue reading
A ace game, unofficially known as Katakis 2, with the programmer none other than Turrican god Manfred Trenz. Packed to the brim with amazing power-ps, great backdrops, epic soundtracks and incredible parallax scrolling, it’s a real shame this one never … Continue reading
Enemy or NME was a side scrolling shooter that was graphically awesome according to project manager Darren Melborne. This was a game to be based upon the R-Type inspired mechanical/organic style of the day the title featured great graphics and … Continue reading
A very obscure title which was mentioned and only had the title of “Sideways SEUCK game”. Now this was not long after the unreleased Breakthrough, and we assume that RR Software may have come up with their own tweaked SEUCK … Continue reading
Elaroo is based around an elephant who bounces around various platforms on a pogo stick, while collecting as many coins as possible and bouncing on the heads of enemies to get bubblegum. I can’t quite make out which game this … Continue reading
Exodus was to be a side scrolling shoot em up that owed it’s inspiration to Battlestar Galactica. A kind of cross between Defender and Uridium. The game was previously unknown by many until Darren Melbourne shed some light on the … Continue reading
A new GTW entered into the archives, kindly fixed up for GTW from the work disks of Harold Klink and Martijn Althuizen. Enemy Scout is both a sideways SEU and a sideway run-along game in its early stages of development. … Continue reading
Elysium was to be a game to match the class of Ultimate’s Knightlore and Alien 8 games on the C64, using some rather cool programming techniques to get everything running to speed. The developer had finished Imhotep, and started working … Continue reading
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