Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1915
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
A very popular arcade from Atari in 1986, converted fairly well to the C64 by Elite around the same time. Mindscape were this time handling the sequel, which never existed as an arcade title. Paperboy 2 this time featured the … Continue reading
This is another game which Zeldin was working on. Thew game only in planning-phase (some grafix, animations etc. were done). It’s not quite sure what this game was about, though I hope Zeldin will explain more. Was it a update … Continue reading
With thanks to Ross Sillifant, it has been highlighted from a MEGA Power interview with Steve Turner that a PC Engine edition of Paradroid was once in production, as well as a unknown console edition of Total Recall. Paradroid 90 … Continue reading
A short entry for what is a significant earlier version of Paradroid, which was revealed by Andrew Braybook via Twitter. The screenshots below come from Andrew’s negative archive, showing an early version with the player’s gun-sight that moves along in … Continue reading
Well, it could and maybe it should have happened… but Parallax was due a sequel from the Sensible Software boys, and certainly this was very much on the cards. The previous game was left rather open at the end once … Continue reading
Paranoid Pete is a space harvesting action game which was released on the Spectrum way back in 1984. Personal Computer Games advertised the game and clearly you can see that a Commodore 64 version was in the pipeline. Although the … Continue reading
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