Unreleased & Cancelled Video Games across many platforms.
Total results: 1771
A Rambo rip off which was found out about thanks to Jax, who started off at Zeppelin games as a young developer. CPCGames reviews (http://www.cpcgamereviews.com) describes the game as follows: "A squad of troops has been sent to infiltrate enemy … Continue reading
Fruit Fight is an interesting entry which was to be an unofficial arcade conversion of Dingo (Ultimate Arcade) The game was quite a good copy according to Stephen Kellett (the game’s coder). The game was written for Gannon Designs who … Continue reading
An educational game from Fisher Price this time, and one of a few titles which never got shipped by Roger Pedersen. We aren’t sure yet if he had any development time on the C64 version, or the Apple. Most of … Continue reading
1993 Images Software Platform: Commodore Amiga (+ potentially others later on) Also known as: Monkey Business It was recently that team member Grzegorz Antosiewicz highlighted an abandoned Amiga game which had completely passed me by last year when artist Glenn … Continue reading
Probably one of the strangest GTW titles i’ve had to enter – but this is no joke, but an actual game which we are trying to recover and may well have been released. It’s just missing, and has been highlighted … Continue reading
A very quick entry which was highlighted by Romppainen. Fusion was an average shooter produced by Bullfrog for Electronic Arts on the Amiga back in 1988. Nothing unusual there, but Romppainen highlights that the game was listed as being released … Continue reading
Here’s an interesting GTW, this time mentioned from its coder Craig Kelsall. Future Bike Simulator was being developed for Alternative Software back in 1988. It’s main mention in the press was in Crash issue 51 which depicted a top down … Continue reading
In the same era as the lost release of Pyramid of Time, Firebird were also to release another Activision game on their Silverbird label… Zzap first mentioned news of the game in issue 26… “Hot on the heels of the … Continue reading
It was thought that this possibly may have been released as Combat Crazy, due to the fact that the game has a tune in it mean’t for G.I. Hero, and also G.I. Hero and Combat Crazy sound like two similar … Continue reading
A quick post relating to what seems to be a rather different (and missing) section from Epyx’s G.I. Joe licensed game from 1985. Thanks to Karl “Trantornator” Kuras for the heads up! Click onto the image for the full version. … Continue reading
Galactic Conqueror was described as a an action and strategy game by Titus Interactive. According to sources, the game was infact released in 1988 for Amstrad CPC, Amiga (, Atari ST and DOS. The Games Machine magazine in March 1989 … Continue reading
1989 Kingsoft Platform: Commodore Amiga A short entry for what looks like a superb little Galaga clone with a load of extra bells and whistles taking advantage of Amiga hardware. Just a small preview seems to have featured within a … Continue reading
Galactic Enforcer was a 2 way horizontal scrolling SEU where you controlled a red alien that had to take out other alien enemies. Created by Marc Walters of Cronic The Badger fame, this sounds an interesting title… Your main ship … Continue reading
A combined entry for the label that was from the Darling Brothers, before they got more involved at pushing games through Mastertronic (and of course later starting up Codemasters). Only two C64 titles seem to have been released, Bug Diver … Continue reading
2005 Detalion Games Platform PC Its with thanks to Liqmatrix that we learn about Galander, which was an action game that was being developed for the PC back in 2005 by Detalion Games. On their archived website, the plot was … Continue reading
A short entry for a title that has been highlighted by Peter Weighill as one which is currently missing. A game that was apparently two years in the making and described in the advert as follows: “Have you ever wanted … Continue reading
1997-2004 Confounding Factor Platforms: PC, Sony PlayStation, Sony PlayStation 2, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube A short entry on a title that was being created by Confounding Factor, a company founded in 1997 by former Core Design’s Toby Gard and Paul … Continue reading
Game Hunter is yet another mysterious Anirog title which seems to have gone astray since some initial mentions in magazines and adverts. We’re not entirely sure at this point what the game was about, and there seems to be no … Continue reading
Not strictly a game as such (Although the screenshot you will see depicts a sample game that has been created) – Mr Pixel’s Game Maker is a rather obscure title which seems to have been lost in the midsts of … Continue reading
A bizzarely named game which was reviewed very quickly by Peter Staaks back in 1997 in one of the main fanzines at the time. It was a pacman clone which had a preview released apparently and which Peter gave some … Continue reading
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