Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1892
Thanks to Raffox for flagging this one up from the Gamebase 64 archives, but although we mainly deal with trying to find unreleased games or vastly different versions of a released game, we also like to examine and take a … Continue reading
This is a very short stub entry for now for a game called Hunting with the Columbia, which was a concept for a Commodore 64 game that was highlighted on Viktor T. Toth’s website. Please see the gallery for more … Continue reading
2000 Sland Media Platforms: Commodore Amiga, PC Following on from the release of Exodus: The Last War, there was to be yet another potentially great strategy game from the same creators, for both Amiga and PC. The game was teased … Continue reading
2010 Webzen Games Inc. Platforms: PC and Microsoft Xbox 360 Our next title in the archive was a MMO title that was actually experienced and played by PC owners in closed and open beta releases between 2009 and 2010, but … Continue reading
Hydlide was to be a Westernized conversion of a popular Japanese RPG title to platforms such as the C64 in 1989. Contributor Robert Robichaud has provided some excellent information about the game- so much so that i’ve essentially posted here … Continue reading
In 1985/86, Ocean had a deal with Konami to convert their old arcade machines to the humble C64… which they did in style with a number of titles such as Green Beret. We pretty much knew about every single game … Continue reading
A very popular and ground breaking game on the Spectrum, was in fact also planned for the Commodore 64 back in 1987. Sandy White, creator of Ant Attack and Zombie Zombie, set to work on creating one of the most … Continue reading
One more Channel 8 Software ‘Game That Wasn’t’ for the collection, I, Spy for Children was part of a slew of planned released by Channel 8 Software, several of which never saw the light of day. Judging from the name … Continue reading
A very obscure title now, and yet another Firebird title to enter the archives. Ice Age mainly has come to light due to the SID file which is in HVSC that Jeroen Tel did for this game and sound effects … Continue reading
According to an article Aktueller magazine (05/1986), Nu Wave’s ID game was not only to be produced on the Spectrum, but would later get converted to the Amstrad and Commodore 64 platforms. It didn’t quite happen though – possibly due … Continue reading
2021 System 3 Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 International Karate and IK+ are two titles which helped to really put System 3 on the map, along with of course the Last Ninja series. Archer Maclean did a superb job … Continue reading
An Italian title which may have been released, but is currently missing and yet to be preserved. Can you help us and ready64.org to recover it? Il Conte (The Count) was a text adventure game which was created by Riccardo … Continue reading
1989 MikroBitti Magazine Platform: Atari ST A slightly unusual post now, for a title that wasn’t really a game – but then almost turned into one! Illuminatus was news to me, until I heard from contributor Janne Sirén, who highlighted … Continue reading
Ilogical was to be a C64 conversion of a title which has seen release on a variety of platforms, and is a cool Picross clone: http://computeremuzone.com/ficha.php?id=744&l=en Sadly the C64 edition was never properly finished. Initially things were very slow by … Continue reading
Crystal Software and Electronics were an ambitious software house trying to save the C64 gaming market back in 1997 with a large range of planned releases. Sadly it wasn’t to be, and as with other companies – it was found … Continue reading
1994 Microprose Platforms: Super Nintendo, SEGA Mega Drive Also known as “Impossible Mission: The 90s Remix”, Impossible Mission 2025 was to be an enhanced version of the classic 1984 Commodore 64 platformer from Epyx. Not only featuring a whole new … Continue reading
Our next title is a text adventure which was being written by Tony Rome in 2014. Tony had created an adventure game called The Chinese Box, and this was his next title. In 2012, Tony posted that his new adventure … Continue reading
A bit of a surprise spotting in the preview section of Zzap!64 issue 52 in 1989. It seems that the Last Crusade action game was to feature multi-coloured based graphics instead of the hi-res ones we all know. What we … Continue reading
A very quick entry for a title we know very little about. The first we heard about Industria 14 was via Martin Holland, who said that he did the game for we believe Software Creations back around 1990. It is … Continue reading
A very short entry for a title which may have been something advertised in early magazines. The game was to be released by Playsoft, but we know very little else apart from this. The game is also part of a … Continue reading
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