Unreleased & Cancelled Video Games across many platforms.
Total results: 1771
1992 Thalamus Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga Creatures 1 and 2 were two fantastically cute, but violent titles from Apex Computer Productions, and published by Thalamus during the early 1990s. So popular, it was decided to convert Creatures to … Continue reading
The advert mentions Atari, Com 64 and Vic 20. But the Commodore 64 version is nowere to be seen.”‹ The screenshot shown seems to be a mockup with a hi-res font compared to the Vic 20 edition, which could well … Continue reading
Our next entry is based on a sequel of a popular Cricket game which was planned by D&H Games, but never quite made it to the crease. There was to be a sequel and international version, and this was advertised … Continue reading
1989 Imageworks Platform: Amiga A very short entry for a title already covered on Amiga GTW, where you can find screenshots and a rolling demo to download – as well as a Q/A with creator Paolo Costabel. When the game … Continue reading
Crossbones was originally a game which had very little known it, apart a mention way back in 1987 in “Happy Computer” magazine. It was in an interview with Brian Fargo and Bill Heineman of Interplay where they first mentioned that … Continue reading
Our next brief entry is for a game being worked on by Screen 7, a company who also did Jaws and a few others on the C64. The game was to be based on the TV series, Crossbow and was … Continue reading
UPDATE! – Case closed! Game confirmed as released and preserved by Marco (Exile) Das and Genesis Project. See downloads. Early days, hence a very short entry. Contributor Jari Karjalainen has reported that in a DigitPress interview with Robert Jaeger (creator … Continue reading
Our next game in the archives comes thanks to Genesis Project, who recently compiled up an abandoned project and released it. This was an abandoned college project from 2002. Rather than let it rot away, the developer put it all … Continue reading
After completing work on the unreleased ATG and doing work for BMX Kidz, Paul Docherty was assigned to another Telecomsoft based title, this time a cheeky Super Mario Bros clone called Crucial Bros which was to be released by Silverbird … Continue reading
Dave Moore from Retro Software has recently informed us of a long lost BBC micro conversion of Cruise Attack by Mikro Gen being found safe and well. This was sold to Dave Moore back in Sept 2010. The ZX Spectrum … Continue reading
A graphic adventure game which promised hundreds of different screens, using a random generator to allow for up to 64K different views. This game was advertised in Personal Computer Games issue 13 way back in December 1984, but seemingly never … Continue reading
Esprit Software seem to have a extensive track record of trying to produce games which pushed all the barriers to the limits. First with Search For Sharla, then with Flonk… now with this particular little game. And with one common … Continue reading
Jack Attack as a game title for the Commodore 64 (and C16/Plus 4) was a well known dig at Jack Tramiel and his so called “Jack Attacks” that he used to give out to his staff. The red main character sort of looking familiar to the Commodore boss at the time, or so we thought. Continue reading
An interesting entry which ties in quite nicely with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes by the same company. Attack of the Mushroom People was to be based on one of those old really cheesy sci-fi movies which came out in … Continue reading
A short entry for a Castle Software game that was advertised back in August 1983 in Compute! magazine (volume 5, issue 8). This has been highlighted thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog. We don’t know much about this game at … Continue reading
Yet another Hewson based GTW enters the archives, this time with a C64 conversion of the Amiga game by Chris Hinsley. It is currently unknown what the game is about, though with the Metalic graphical references by the game’s graphic … Continue reading
1990 Psygnosis Platform: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, PC Engine and Sega Mega Drive A short entry for an interesting platformer which was originally called Dr Mallet and the Tribbles – thanks to Karl Kuras for the heads up about the … Continue reading
1990 ARC Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga Cyber Assault was a vector-based obstacle course game announced by ARC. In the game you must control a character called TRAX (an exo-skeletal humanoid), who can run, jump and walk through a … Continue reading
So this is where Drew (Terminus) Rodger got to.. After his musical exploits for Zeppelin and Virgin, Drew turned his attention to the games market as the scene dwindled away. At the time, Commodore Format featured a huge games explosion. … Continue reading
“The Rebellion’s Over! Your Mission: Terminate the Rebels of Hollerith. Your Role: You are the latest in Cyborg Technology. You are… a Cyber Cop & The Rebels are Ready for You.” That is the starting description of Cyber Cop, a … Continue reading
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