Unreleased & Cancelled Video Games across many platforms.
Total results: 39
Briefly mentioned in an issue of Commodore Cracker, there was a brief news item saying that the conversion of Uefa Cup Soccer for the C64 was looking seriously delayed. It never surfaced unsurprisingly, and was most likely vapourware. Note in … Continue reading
Selindek Software Studio (SSS) was a Hungarian Software house which did a few adventure games. Uj Vadnyugat was to be a trio of adventure games – two of which did make it to release back in 1989, but sadly the … Continue reading
1998-1999 Impressions Platform: PC Thanks to Niklas Lindholm, we learn of yet another lost football management game, this time with a game in the Ultimate Soccer Manager series, with the 2000 edition. Niklas has produced a brilliant video about the … Continue reading
From what looks like a compilation, Ultra Games was some kind of gaming olympics title. An Epyx-style olympics game, with each event being a particular genre of computer game. Mentioned within the news pages of Zzap 64, the following 9 … Continue reading
Our next entry popped up via Twitter in late 2020 thanks to Mark Hardisty, who spotted ex-C64 developer Chris Hester posting up some photos of a game that he worked on. Ultrabulb seems to be a kind of Spindizzy clone, … Continue reading
Universal Military Simulator was a very advanced battle strategy game which was developed by Rainbird and was released on the ST and Amiga platforms back in 1988. For more details about the game, check out Richard Hewison’s excellent write up … Continue reading
A very short entry for a title believed to be by Jukka TapanimÁ¤ki. There is nothing playable, but found on some of Jukka’s disks was a short demo showing a selection menu to show different graphic segments. These seem to … Continue reading
This is a unnamed Donkey Kong clone which was being developed by Mike Berry in the 90’s. It was mentioned in an interview in Commodore Scene back around 1997 time. Mike had the following to say about the game when … Continue reading
Our next entry is brief, though hope we may well get to find out more soon about it. Whilst at Imagine Software, Colin Porch was busy working on an educational game. He can even be seen working on the very … Continue reading
The C64 was to be home to yet another football game, this time from Ash and Dave. The title was flagged up by Ashley Routledge, who could recall a very fast scroll routine which would move the pitch around very … Continue reading
Whilst having a quick sift through Nick Taylor’s Liverpool FC disks, I found some graphics which seem to be for a Cult Software football game – going by the billboard graphics. Cult were mostly known for their Football management game, … Continue reading
A very brief entry which has stemmed from a mention in Bob Pape’s R-Type book. In the book, Bob mentioned that both David Jolliff and Jim Smart had worked on a original futuristic Ikari Warriors-type game. They were hoping to … Continue reading
A very quick entry which was picked up upon by browsing through Thomas Mogensen’s work directory in HVSC. Within the directory was a tune labelled “My big brothers game”, which must have been a game being developed by Ole Mogensen. … Continue reading
A very short entry for a title mentioned by Paul Rogers as being in production. This was a 4 player platform game with parallax scrolling – unfortunately not getting any further than 25% complete. The concept according to Paul looked … Continue reading
A short entry for now for a title that was developed for PSS by David Bolton (who had created titles such as Johnny Reb II for MC Lothlorien. Unfortunately the title cannot be recalled, but this was a title developed … Continue reading
A short entry for a new GTW that was flagged up by Fabrizio Bartolini. This time a horizontal scrolling shoot’em up for the Commodore 64 created by Jonathan Wheatman. The game, according to an interview with Jonathan, was written when … Continue reading
A short entry for a title that we need to find out more about from Mike (Kernal) Berry. This was likely to be a sideways scrolling shooter that Mike Berry was producing for a budget label or similar back around … Continue reading
Very quick entry, but mentioned in a 1997 edition of Commodore Scene was a Summer Games styled game set in space being worked on by Ewen Gillies. There is no further evidence of the game, and we do not know … Continue reading
Not really known for sports games, unless you count Slicks, Ashley Routledge (and possibly Dave Saunders) was working on a Tennis game around the early 90’s. A set of graphics showing a tennis court were discovered on Ash’s disks in … Continue reading
Back around 1985 time, Antony Crowther was working on a game based on the Red Arrows, which is another GTW which we have within our archives. In an interview with Commodore Horizons, Antony suggested that his next project would possibly … Continue reading
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