Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1892
A bit of an interesting entry this time, and a game which had some brief involvement from Jon Hare in his pre-Sensible days doing graphics in various bit parts for games. Lone Wolf seems to be part of a series … Continue reading
Even though this game made it out as a graphical text adventure, Lord of the Rings was to also be a RPG version of the game which was to be made as the last phase of C-64 releases by Interplay. … Continue reading
Thanks to Peter Weighill for highlighting yet another C64 title that seems to have got away. Lordlings of Yore was a strategy game that was released on the Apple II and seems to be available, but the Commodore 64 version … Continue reading
Yet another C64 conversion of a Cinemaware game hits the GTW archives, and this time another classic in the form of “Lords of the Rising Sun”. Very similiar in style to Defender of the Crown, Lords of the Rising Sun … Continue reading
“Pursued by a band of cut-throat nomads, you stumble across an ancient map, showing the position of the mythical diamond mines, the lost caves. For almost a thousand years explorers and archaeologists alike have dreamed of the legendary lost caves … Continue reading
Not really an unreleased game, but some bits and bobs that could be nice to save if they still exist. Looking at the preview screens in Zzap for the 3D Construction Kit, as well as an earlier editor kit, there … Continue reading
A great article has been published regarding the unreleased Jack The Ripper for Amiga and with mock-ups for an abandoned online version for PC. Thanks to https://mastodon.world/@mr_creosote@dosgame.club for sharing. https://goodolddays.net/en/game/Jack-the-Ripper/ Any new info or snippets, we’ll add to the gallery … Continue reading
Ok, so we’re not talking about a majorly different conversion that was in the works, but some fairly significant differences compared to the final edition that eventually ended up on the C64. Many of you may remember the rolling demo … Continue reading
Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 is a great 2 player split screen driving game, and seeing the sequel is enough to make any user excited. The other versions were breathtaking, and the C64 version was apparently shaping well according to rumours. … Continue reading
A quick one again we’re afraid!…. very limited knowledge on this one, but mentioned in an interview with Antony Crowther, who mentioned that one of his first dips into commercial game programming was for a company called Superior Systems and … Continue reading
Lupin III was to be a licenced game based on the Japanese Manga series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin_III) and written by the Magnetica Team which consisted of: Giuseppe Tresoldi – graphics and game designer Omid Ehsani – C64 developer Gerardo Iula – Amiga … Continue reading
Odin and Thor released a whole range of cool games, and this could have potentially been another. Lustiania had the working title of “Sunken Ship Game” and was being coded by Robbie Tinman, with music by his brother Keith Tinman, … Continue reading
Mach 3 was a pseudo 3D racer which was released on the Amstrad (http://www.cpczone.net/game/2087), MSX and Spectrum (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002959), but it seems not on the C64 as stated to be coming soon by TGM in issue 03/88. Even though the game … Continue reading
Sadly we know very little about this entry so far, but hopefully you do? The game was found out about thanks to HVSC recently digging out a series of tunes by Adam Gilmore. This one was titled Mad, but without … Continue reading
No proper name as such, but confirmation thanks to Vinny Mainolfi, that John Twiddy was working on yet another game for the C64, which was mentioned when interviewed in Zzap 64. In the interview, John mentions that he was working … Continue reading
In an interview on C64.com, Andy Jervis mentioned that he was working on a Mad Max type game for CRL back in the day: “I started a Mad Max type game on the C64 for CRL. This involved you driving … Continue reading
A very quick entry to highlight a BASIC game (with some Machine code) that was created by Soeren Lohel. The game was recovered by Baracuda, but sadly seems to be corrupted. Do you have a working copy of this game? … Continue reading
Yet another early preview of a late C64 title from 2014 that seems to have been chucked onto the project scrapheap. Mad Ninja seems to be the start of a single screen platformer, in the style of Blagger, where you … Continue reading
Another day, another first version of a game discovered. This time we discover that Mag Max had an earlier version in production by Sean Townsend and Martin Calvert (from Canvas – the guys who did Highlander for Ocean). According to … Continue reading
A short entry for a title that has been highlighted by Peter Weighill as one which is currently missing. This was to be an adventure game, possibly a graphic text adventure which has the following blurb in the advert: “Are … Continue reading
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