Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 215
Another coin-op conversion by the arcade conversion masters, Elite. This was to be a conversion of the popular arcade game, and was an ambitious one to do at that. Sadly although mentioned (albeit briefly) in Commodore Format, the game never … Continue reading
Nope, this is not anything to do with the Gremlin Graphics game by the Core Design team (even though you’ll see, the blue logo looks startlingly like the Gremlin game’s logo) – but this is in fact a completely different … Continue reading
A very unknown GTW title which has only really come to light because of some documentation that came to light with proposals of a game for Empire on the Commodore 64 called Sword of Abbadon. All we know about the … Continue reading
A short entry for what should have been a C64 game as well as PC and Amiga (with thanks to Allan Pinkerton for highlighting!). This SSI game saw release for various formats in 1989/1990 by Strategic Simulations Inc., but the … Continue reading
Sword of Sodan was a hack and slash game that was released in 1989 on the Amiga, as well as the Sega Megadrive in 1990. It featured very large characters and did fairly well at the time. Reviewed in CVG, … Continue reading
Sword of the Samurai was a strategy game set in 15th Century Japan, written for the PC in 1989 by Microprose Software. It was a fairly well recieved game, and some people had fond memories of it: http://www.links.net/dox/warez/games/microprose/samurai/ As you … Continue reading
Sword of the Samurai was based on a Fighting Fantasy gamebook by Ian Livingstone & Steve Jackson. Two earlier books – Rebel Planet and Temple of Terror – had already been published as text/graphic adventures, and so this would probably … Continue reading
Another rather obscure title which we are struggling to find out anything about. This was mentioned at the end of a magazine in their “Next issue” slot. We need to try and find out which magazine in particular as we … Continue reading
Swords and Sorcery was originally announced in 1984, as a revolutionary computer role-playing game, claimed by its designer Mike Simpson to be the first of its kind. It eventually did surface on the Spectrum and Amstrad, earning considerable critical acclaim, … Continue reading
And so the list continues with yet more Hi-Tec games added into the archive. This time with “Sylvester and Tweety Pie” which was a platformer where you had to try and catch Tweety Pie and you could scale walls, but … Continue reading
A short entry for a compilation tape that was advertised by Swedish magazine Allt om Hemdatorer (All about Home Computers) in 1984. Thanks to an anonymous contributor, the ad translates as follows: Already today you can buy TOMORROW’S COMPUTER MAGAZINE … Continue reading
A very quick entry for a title which is listed on Wikipedia as having a sequel due, but was never to be. System 15000 was a game from 1984 and released by Craig Communications by a development team called A.V.S. … Continue reading
This was thought to be a lost game, but we have been informed that a release was made. http://s64.emuunlim.com/gameinfos/system8/system8.htm This entry as a result will be removed in the future. Case closed!
1986-1990 Ghislain de Blois Platform: Commodore VIC-20 A short entry to highlight a series of previously unreleased VIC 20 games from Ghislain de Blois that you may have missed and was posted originally in 2015: Eight previously unreleased games for … Continue reading
Our next entry is a title that was being worked on by Robert Wilson back in 1989 and was recently discovered again on his old work disks. The game itself is a sideways scrolling shooter with a guy on a … Continue reading
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