Documenting unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games.
Total results: 27
1985 O.F.A Platform: Atari 400/800 series A short collective entry for a series of Atari 400/800 adventures that are currently missing and were advertised for a long period of time in Computer Shopper magazine in 1986. Flagged up by Bertrand … Continue reading
A short collective entry for a series of Commodore 64 adventures that are currently missing and were advertised for a long period of time in Computer Shopper magazine in 1986. Flagged up by Bertrand / Atari Frog. These were three … Continue reading
Now I bet you didn’t expect to learn that Obliterator was also a planned C64 title?… No?… Well, if you’re an Amstrad user you have probably played it already, where as us C64 users have suffered without a conversion of … Continue reading
A rather quick entry until we get more info, but Octil was in production by Paul Black, who did a number of C64 titles including Dizzy Down The Rapids. We don’t know anything about the game just yet until hopefully … Continue reading
A very quick entry to cover what seems to be a James Bond title which got caught up in the video game collapse of 1984. According to online sources, Parker Bros were planning to release a game based on the … Continue reading
Titus released a string of 3D-based games, initially on the 16-bit machines but often converted down to 8-bit. Among the most famous is the Crazy Cars series, all three of which made the jump to the C64. Offshore Warrior was … Continue reading
“An adventure of mystery and suspense, based around the London South Bank” – as described in the advert which was printed by CVG back in the day. Old Scores is yet another adventure game, and a graphic text adventure by … Continue reading
It has always been wondered what happened to the sequel to Olli and Lissa on the C64. Especially if you consider that the first game was released by Firebird, and the 3rd game was released by Codemasters. We learn that … Continue reading
Thanks to Jazzcat for the heads up about this game, which was shown recently on the developer’s website. We are not sure what the exact aim of the game was and why it was never finished – but we assume … Continue reading
1979 Larry Rosenthal Platform: Arcade As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are gradually adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus content to share with you. The book … Continue reading
Ooze was a horror based text adventure game which was released on the Amiga, PC and ST by German software house Dragonware back in 1989. It was also advertised for the C64 and was previewed in a German magazine called … Continue reading
Yet another Codemasters game to add to the pile – this time a conversion of an Oliver Twins game called Operation Gunship. This game was a top down multi-directional scroller – actually very similiar to Firehawk, which was later being … Continue reading
Quite possibly one of the strangest goings on behind a Ocean release, coming in the form of the rather bizarre release of Operation Thunderbolt. It all stems back to Zzap! 64, and issue 57 in particular. Zzap reviewed the game … Continue reading
An interesting looking title which looks a lot like Dicky’s Diamonds, but was a US based release that was going to be on cartridge back in early 1984. The game was reviewed by Electronic Fun with Computers and Games magazine, … Continue reading
Orbital Run was a particularly ambitious project which was planned and started back in 1991. Shaun Pearson and some other guys believed that there was no decent C64 car game out there, and so they decided to create their own. … Continue reading
We’ve been on a roll recently (thanks to Peter Weighill) with a number of large company collections of games which have seemingly never seen the light of day, or they are just very obscure. Our next set is from Orbyte … Continue reading
A new Melbourne House title (whilst under the Virgin Mastertronic ownership) was due on the C64 in the shape of Orel Hershiser’s Strike Zone, a pretty cool baseball game which seems to have only been due for release in the … Continue reading
Oriental Games could have possibly been one of the last Firebird games to see a release on the C64, but it was not to be. Mentioned in a news item in Games Machine issue 27, Oriental Games was an average … Continue reading
A very quick open and closed case. Alpha Omega’s Orpheus game of the same name was actually intended to be released back in 1984 by Sterling Software, but it seems the company may have collapsed before it got out. However, … Continue reading
1992 Mindscape Platform: Commodore Amiga Released on Super Nintendo and SEGA Mega Drive, Outlander was also once due for release on the Commodore Amiga too by Mindscape in 1992. The game is described by our very own Karl Kuras as … Continue reading
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