Preserving Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 4008
2006 Unknown Platform: Mobile J2ME A short entry for a Java Platform mobile de-make of the classic Super Monkey Ball. It is not currently known if the development ever got further than just a few mock up screens. In 2024, … Continue reading
2006 Namco Platform: Microsoft Xbox 360 Frame City Killer was announced back in May 2005 as a next-generation action adventure game for the Xbox 360, utilizing the new upcoming Unreal 3 engine and consisting of immersive and non-linear gameplay. The … Continue reading
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Centurion Software, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog. It isn’t clear if all the titles … Continue reading
1992 Intec Platform: PC Engine Our next title is an interesting looking side-on action RPG title that was due for release on the PC Engine by Intec around 1992 time. A few mentions were made in PCEngineFan over the years, … Continue reading
A very short entry for a title that was being written at Syntax Software by Randal Linden with someone else (as yet unnamed). We are not sure if it was a typical Star Trek game of that era (of which … Continue reading
Not to be confused with the Software Projects game that was released in 1986, this was a new game based on the famous Laser Disc title and being developed by Readysoft back in 1989. Randal Linden revealed to Andrew Fisher … Continue reading
Our next entry has been highlighted thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni, and is an RPG title that was created back in 1994. It is listed on Gamebase as unreleased, but seems to be a playable and complete game by Michael Härtig … Continue reading
Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni for flagging up, but Atari Mania have recently announced recovery of four games by General Masters Corporation for the Atari 400/800 which apparently were never released. Mike Burkhart kindly dumped the games in 2022: Con Job … Continue reading
1983-1984 Archer Maclean Platform: Atari 800 Whilst working to recover the late Archer Maclean’s work disks, we discovered a few things which surprised us. As well as games, Archer also did a bit of freelance development work outside of games … Continue reading
Games That Weren’t has been running for a quarter of a century this year, which is not only staggering, but also a bit scary if I’m honest. For 25 years (much longer if you count preservation work before the online … Continue reading
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