Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1906
Briefly mentioned in the EBES interview in Commodore Format, Captain America was one of the big titles being planned for release to save the C64 software scene. Nothing was ever heard more of the game or its plans, except that … Continue reading
Captain Courageous was an action game in the style of an Indiana Jones game, which was commissioned to Arcanum Developments to be completed. This team consisted of Mark Kelly, his brother, Robert McGowan, Barry Leitch and Alan Mac. It was … Continue reading
To milk the success of the then popular super hero, who saved the planet from pollution with his friends (All of which had special powers based on the 5 main elements of the planet), Mindscape cashed in by gaining the … Continue reading
1978 Atari 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 contains … Continue reading
Capture the Flag is a brilliant two player 3D maze game which was available on a whole host of systems, such as the Atari and even the Vic 20! The game was way ahead of its time, and gave a … Continue reading
Vague time now, as we take a very quick look at another title from the guys at Cyberdyne Systems in the days of producing the likes of Armalyte and Deadlock. All we know is that there was a Car game … Continue reading
Recently highlighted in a recent interview in 2010 with David Crane, Retro Gamer issue 79 established from David Crane that the driving segments and car building scenes in the famous Ghostbusters game was originally meant for another game. Already in … Continue reading
Occasionally we take a break from covering games that were never released, but also look at titles that were released, but had some distinctive differences at one stage or another. Today we’re covering Cardiaxx, which was released by Electronic Zoo … Continue reading
Cargo was a game which was being developed by Simon Nicol and Stavros Fasoulas under the Ducksoft Development label, and was meant for Firebird Software. We were first informed about the title (though without a title) by Simon’s friend Said … Continue reading
UPDATE – Case closed, game is in Gamebase under a slightly different name: http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=2732 Advertised back in 1983 along with two other games that were released and are currently in Gamebase64, Cargo Run is unfortunately missing. The game was described … Continue reading
We think that this title was to be called Carlo, or it could be the character of which the file depicts. We found a large’ish sprite set labelled Carlo on the disks of Cory Kin, which seems to have a … Continue reading
2005 SCi / Stainless Games Platform: Gizmondo This is a smaller piece intended for inclusion in The Games That Weren’t book that didn’t make the final cut. Within the book is an in-depth and detailed 18 page story about the … Continue reading
2005 Visual Science Platforms: Microsoft Xbox, PC and Sony PlayStation 2 As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus DLC content to share with … Continue reading
A game which you will never have heard of from XLCUS, abandoned at quite an early stage. "Cars" was a working title for a game being developed by Paul Kubiszyn under his XLCUS label, which involved two cars racing against … Continue reading
Castle Fear was to be a sophisticated adventure with graphics and sound, as described by its advert in the December 1984 edition of Personal Computer Games. The aim was to try and find the stolen Golden Crown and Seven Diamonds … Continue reading
2000 Konami Platform: SEGA Dreamcast A short post on what should have been the 17th Castlevania title and released on the SEGA Dreamcast back in 2000, where you were to control Sonia Belmont and Victor Belmont in a 3D third … Continue reading
Not to be confused with The Catacombs by Anirog that was released a few years earlier, this was to be a text adventure release in a nice large clam box by Classic Quests around 1986 time. This was something that … Continue reading
A rather ambitious game from Martech on the C64 indeed… just look at the screenshots! The story goes as follows (Thanks to a CVG clipping).. “The game was to be a 3D vector graphic arcade adventure where you control a … Continue reading
Catch’em was a pretty good Amiga/DOS platformer which came out in 1992 and had you having to return escaped animals to a zoo. He does this by tempting them with bananas and then hitting them with a baseball bat for … Continue reading
Yet another game from the Italian gaming team of Idea. This was briefly mentioned in the UK in Commodore Format, and was simply described as a comic licence in the style of ‘Lupo Alberto’ (But it seems it was more … Continue reading
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