Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1892
Yet another title which suffered from the death of the C64 in the early 90’s. Monster Business was a promising mixture of Bubble Bobble and Dig Dug combined with modern day game elements to bring it into the 90’s. Two … Continue reading
A quick post showing two early Atari Lynx developments which would eventually turn into something completely different. Thanks to Ross Sillifant for highlighting both. The first is a title called Monster Demolition, which has some video footage online of the … Continue reading
1994 Acclaim Platform: SEGA Mega Drive Please note that this is just a quick placeholder post, where we have split up an old post which flagged up 3 entries. The original text that follows is from our old team member … Continue reading
This game has been brought to our attention thanks to Wayne Womersley of Art Ravers, who regularly writes for Commodore Scene. And it is from that particular magazine where this game stems from… Moon Gods was being designed for Commodore … Continue reading
Advertised in many magazines, this was a title being sold by Anik Microsystems… however only two Anik games exist and seem to have been released on the C64. The advert describes the game as follows: "Your fuel is low, your … Continue reading
1983 Imagic Platform: Commodore Vic-20 A neat space shooter that was released by Imagic on the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision. However, the game was also seemingly due for release on the Commodore Vic-20 too. In 2019, an AtariAge forum poster … Continue reading
Moreta – Dragon Lady of Pern was to be the sequel to Dragonriders of Pern which was a popular title from the early days of Epyx Software in the Impossible Mission era. The proposed sequel came from the popularity of … Continue reading
Yet another missing Synapse Software title in the archives, with thanks to Bertrand/Atari Frog for highlighting. The game was mentioned as an upcoming title in Protector 2’s scrolling text, but also listed in a Synapse Software price list from September … Continue reading
Our next entry into the depths of GTW64 comes possibly a title which was merely listed as a mistake. Automata were predominantly a Spectrum based company, with very little C64 output at all during the early 80’s. Morris Meets The … Continue reading
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Moses Engineering, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog. These were Commodore 64 titles listed in … Continue reading
A biblical adventure game that was being developed by the US based Three Rivers Software back in 1987 and was released on platforms such as PC. A C64 version was advertised, but seemingly was never released and is still at … Continue reading
A GTW title that could be vapourware, but we can confirm there was planning to have a sequel to the fairly well recieved Mothership game that was originally released in 1983 by Softsync and then republished by Artic later. The … Continue reading
1994 Trimark Interactive / Software Creations Platform: Super Nintendo As you’ll soon begin to discover, there are many times where games are fully completed, but strangely never allowed out of the doors. Moto-X was one such casualty that was completed … Continue reading
A combined entry for now for a competition ran in BigK magazine which was to lead hopefully to publishing of a game based on animations Techno Police, Space Firebird or Dracula. Mountain Video Games was running the competition with BigK … Continue reading
A quick entry for a slightly different looking Movie Monster game that was in various magazines at the time. Happy Computer in particular were presented with a preview of “The Movie Monster” in the Spring of 1986 which had a … Continue reading
This was to be the original NightShift game, as it started out.. with a victorian toy-making machine. Lucasfilm later stepped in and had all the toys changed and the game changed to what was eventually released as “Nightshift”. It is … Continue reading
1994 Millenium Platform: SEGA Mega Drive, Amiga 1200, Amiga CD32 I remember watching old episodes of Mr. Magoo as a kid, a hapless short-sighted old man who always seems to get into comical trouble, but everything always has a way … Continue reading
A short entry for an earlier edition of Ms. Pac Man that was being written for Atarisoft by Joe Alter. Thanks to Graeme Mason for the heads up. Joe was converting the game for ICOM Simulations, under contract with Atarisoft … Continue reading
1983 SEGA Platform: Atari 2600 (possibly VIC-20 and others too – unconfirmed) Team member Fabrizio Bartoloni recently brought to my attention a very intriguing title which SEGA announced as part of their first line up of games for various home … Continue reading
Our next entry is for a very bizarre and ambitious title that was due for release back in the late 1980s by Activision. Written by Jennifer Diane Reitz and Stephen P. Lepisto. The game was to be released for C64 … Continue reading
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