Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 233
Thanks to Dan Warren, here is yet another pre-release screen, this time from Palace Software’s 1988 Troll game. There are some very minor graphic differences compared to the final version, including the score being on the opposite side and some … Continue reading
A brief entry once more, where a sequel to a cool early platform game (called Tronix would you believe!) was mentioned in the game’s scroll text. Little more is known at this point in time – but it is very … Continue reading
A game being produced by R Pedersen, who developed a number of games which never made the light of day. The games were all made in MSDOS first, then ported easily over to the C64 and Apple machines. This game … Continue reading
A very very quick entry which was first mentioned in a Maniacs of Noise release list by Charles Deenen. Trucc was scheduled to have a tune composed by MAD (Marcel Donne), but it seems it never happened. The game was … Continue reading
A quick entry for a game which was reviewed in Commodore Cracker issue 4. This was a card game that was being sold from a homebrew developer for a very cheap price. It was described as a well made game … Continue reading
1994 Core Design Platform: SEGA Game Gear Trunkski (sometimes misspelled as Trunski) was announced by Core Design as a new Game Gear title at the same time they were due to become their very own publisher. The title was a … Continue reading
1996 Reverse Logic Platform: Commodore Amiga Following on from our recent addition to the archives of Fatal Mission, we add yet another title that was being worked on by Ola Zandelin. This time, instead of a 2D platformer, Ola decided … Continue reading
A very quick entry, as this could well be vapourware. The original TT Racer sadly never got a C64 release, but strangely there was a news snippet in Commodore User which suggested that a new TT Racer 2 game was … Continue reading
Tujad was a arcade maze based game which was released on the Spectrum and Amstrad (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005448). It got above average reviews, but overall wasn’t that bad a game. An early advert for the game mentioned the C64 was having a … Continue reading
Another title which is sadly currently lost. Highlighted by Peter Weighill, Tunes n Trivia was a pop quiz game released in the USA and which seems to have only been sold via mail-order. As a result, the game could have … Continue reading
1991 System 3 Platform: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST Once known as Borderline during its early development, Turbo Charge was inspired by the driving section that featured within Vendetta, an earlier game by System 3. The game was released on the … Continue reading
A car racing game which was released on the Amiga, Amstrad and Spectrum. A C64 version was mentioned as coming soon in The Games Machine around 1989 time. The Spectrum version seemed to have got a release only on budget … Continue reading
A large entry which i’ve decided to do for an entire software house’s set of games. You see, not all of Turbo Tiger Software’s games were unreleased but it strangely seems that none exist in any digital form on the … Continue reading
A short entry for yet another Mastertronic game which never saw the light of day. This was a game based on the Pulse Warrior codebase, which according to developer Simon Price, “involved knocking robots off some sort of high rise … 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/turfform/turfform.htm This entry as a result will be removed in the future. Case closed!
Turner Software was the label by Commodore Cracker’s editor Brian Turner. This was his own label where he attempted to inject some new C64 games into the market to save the machine from dying. Unfortunately the games were just to … Continue reading
1994 Renegade Platforms: PC and Acorn Archimedes A short entry for a title due for release by Renegade on the PC and Acorn Archimedes (thanks to Kevin Tilley for flagging this one up to cover). This was to be a … Continue reading
Yet another TV sports game was planned by the excellent Cinemaware, and late into the C64’s life. Sadly this was never to be it seems. Cinemaware’s website describes the game as follows: “Lace up you hightops and get psyched for … Continue reading
Ram Jam Corporation, famous for their adventure games and Dandy, teamed up with Mosaic to create their next game Twice Shy, an adventure game based on the Dick Francis novel about a computer program which predicts race results. The Commodore … Continue reading
Thanks to some excellent contributions recently from a chap called Mads, we are starting to learn about many more titles which are sort of related to Kele Line. In SOFT 1987 July, there was news that 4 new programmers had … Continue reading
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