Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1892
We’ve been on a roll recently (thanks to Peter Weighill) with a number of large company collections of games which have seemingly never seen the light of day, or they are just very obscure. Our next set is from Orbyte … Continue reading
A new Melbourne House title (whilst under the Virgin Mastertronic ownership) was due on the C64 in the shape of Orel Hershiser’s Strike Zone, a pretty cool baseball game which seems to have only been due for release in the … Continue reading
Oriental Games could have possibly been one of the last Firebird games to see a release on the C64, but it was not to be. Mentioned in a news item in Games Machine issue 27, Oriental Games was an average … Continue reading
A very quick open and closed case. Alpha Omega’s Orpheus game of the same name was actually intended to be released back in 1984 by Sterling Software, but it seems the company may have collapsed before it got out. However, … Continue reading
1992 Mindscape Platform: Commodore Amiga Released on Super Nintendo and SEGA Mega Drive, Outlander was also once due for release on the Commodore Amiga too by Mindscape in 1992. The game is described by our very own Karl Kuras as … Continue reading
Outpost was to be a new game from a new software house called Frontier Games. The game was briefly mentioned in a news item by ACE magazine for issue 16 in 1989. The preview shows a screenshot, which could very … Continue reading
2006 Unknown Platform: Mobile J2ME A short entry for a Java Platform mobile de-make of Outrun 2006, a sequel to the classic SEGA game from 1986. In 2024, ex-Ocean Software artist Bill Harbison would provide Games That Weren’t with a … Continue reading
Many of you will own Outrun Europa on the C64, but not this first version created back in 1988/89. This version was under the name of Outrun Europe and not Europa. It was also a rather different game. Outrun Europe … Continue reading
1993 HeartBeat Corporation Platform: SEGA Mega Drive Outworld 2375 AD is a racing game that was in development for the SEGA Mega Drive in 1993 as a title for use with a Heartbeat Catalyst device (a body-mounted fitness sensor) that … Continue reading
Following on from the recent PC DOS release of an unreleased conversion of Team 17’s Overdrive thanks to Damiano Gerli, GTW’s Grzegorz Antosiewicz dug out a series of early screens from the game. Overall showing many differences and features not … Continue reading
2010 Connect2Media Platforms: Apple iOS and PC (Windows) This is a smaller piece intended for inclusion in The Games That Weren’t book that didn’t make the final cut. As a result, please note that it hasn’t been professionally proof read compared to … Continue reading
A very bizarre title which seems to have had more effort put into the game logo than the actual game itself. To say this is a game is stretching it quite far – as really its just a demo, with … Continue reading
Another Firebird entry, and this time a rather interesting sequel which has come to light thanks to Richard Hewison. Ozzy Versus The Universe – Part II: Cobber was to be an awesome return for Ozzy (Most of you will know … Continue reading
1990-2025 Jaleco / Retro Bit Platform: SEGA Mega Drive A short entry for a cancelled conversion of the Jaleco classic arcade. This is old news, but the cancelled P-47 II: The Freedom Star for the SEGA Mega Drive was recently … Continue reading
I was slightly disappointed when loading up this amazing looking preview, of what I hoped was going to be an accurate and fun conversion of the classic arcade. Although it looks amazing, its sadly not playable at this stage at … Continue reading
Paddle Mania was an arcade tennis game which was mentioned as being a title for conversion in Commodore User, September 1988 by French software company FIL. UK representatives of FIL were The Sales Curve – but although Silkworm and Ninja … Continue reading
Do you remember the SEUCK effort from Commodore Format called "Sub Burner" ? … And maybe its music which changed at different points in the game? Well, the music was infact meant for another game called "Pallasades" which was being … Continue reading
1984 First Star Software Platform: Commodore VIC-20 An intriguing lost First Star Software game for the Commodore VIC-20, which did see a previously unreleased Commodore 64 edition saved some years ago. The game was flagged up on Ward F. Shrake’s … Continue reading
A report on the ECTS (European Computer Trade Show) of 1989 was featured by Computer Action magazine in their July/August 1989 issue, with discussion of many forthcoming games. Inevitably, at least one of these did not come to fruition. Panic … Continue reading
Panzadrome was to be a neat little tank action game (top down approach) by Ram Jam Corporation on various machines including the C64. It was based in a maze type arena, going around and blowing up various other tanks on … Continue reading
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