Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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The Heart of Neon kickstarter has launched today. I saw a special showcase at #zzaplive last year and it was an amazing documentary on the great Jeff Minter and Llamasoft. This was an instant backing – more details below: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dokk/the-heart-of-neon-blu-ray?ref=thanks-tweet
Following on from the recent recovery of a slightly earlier NES prototype of Elite, we now present a series of earlier builds of The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt. This was a game developed by Enigma Variations for Ocean Software back in 1993. Continue reading
Nightmare Busters Rebirth Kickstarter has launched today (and already hit its initial target!) – a stunning HD remake of the unreleased SNES gem! This is due soon for Steam, Switch, PlayStation – plus a special SNES Ultimate version! Link below … Continue reading
Just had a fantastic time at Zzap Live in Kenilworth over the two days with my friend Brian ONeill, catching up with lots of friends old and new (and a bit of gaming). Thank you everyone who came to heckle … Continue reading
1995 Finetime Software Platform: PC (DOS) Our next entry into the Games That Weren’t archive is an unfinished PC DOS shooter called ArcWar. A nice looking and early Galaga style game with a strange variety of enemies at this stage, … Continue reading
Motor Mania was to be a fun and quirky driving adventure, designed with younger players in mind. You would take control of Mickey the Micra – a cheerful little car and the last one left undelivered before environmental chaos brought the factory to a standstill. Continue reading
A short and strange entry that has been highlighted to us thanks to Joachim Froholt, who had a reply to a thread about mastering C64 games from a Blake Senftner. Miner on Mars was a Dig Dug clone created by … Continue reading
Thanks to Fliplift on the Lemon64 forums, a very rare promo edition of Rock Star Ate My Hamster on the Commodore 64 has been recovered. This was released through The Sun newspaper, and has been missing for quite some time, … Continue reading
1994 Unknown Platform: Unknown A short entry today for a relatively unknown game that was in the planning, based on the band Green Jelly. All we know is that a video game was being planned, thanks to a two page … Continue reading
Morning all – just wanted to give a heads up that i’ll be doing a Games That Weren’t talk at the amazing Zzap Live event this month in Kenilworth. The GTW book will be on sale too via Sega Mags … Continue reading
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