Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1892
A short entry for another Prisma educational title which was completed, but never released for some reason. The game did see release on the Amiga in 1991. All we know is that the developer was someone called “Simon”, and they … Continue reading
Pet Person was the original incarnation of Little Computer People, before it was brought by Activision as a concept, and re-designed/developed by David Crane into the game we all know and love. The original concept was fairly similar to the … Continue reading
According to Commodore Computing International in December 1988, Active Distribution LTD had made a marketing deal with French company Coktel Vision. The first game to be released was Jungle Book. Peter Pan was to be a future release and was … Continue reading
1984 Roklan / Walt Disney / Atari Platform: Atari 400/800 Our next title was confusingly referred to under a number of different titles, including Captain Hook’s Revenge and Peter Pan’s Daring Journey. In a CES 1983 show, it was reported … Continue reading
1998 Krisalis / Psygnosis / Eidos Platform: PC Contributor Niklas Lindholm has been trying to solve a mystery about a football management game that would just disappear completely without a trace. Krisalis had already previously had released a title called … Continue reading
Dinamic had struck gold with Imagine when they began having their games published on their label. Classics such as Army Moves, and the not so classic Game Over (although the music rocked!).. and also this strange little effort which got … Continue reading
Phantom – The Mission Remive was a remix of a SEUCK game called Phantom – The Mission that was created by Alex Aris and David Axtell back in 1988 on Commodore Disk User magazine. It was a pretty neat shooter … Continue reading
Yet another Ocean title which seems to have got lost along the way from its translation from other formats. In particular from the Spectrum/Amstrad in this case. Phantom Club was a Knightlore style game from the creator of MOVIE, another … 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
Yet another unreleased Codemasters game! … But this time from early on in their life in 1987. Phantomas was to be a conversion of the released spectrum game where you control a robber in a Manic Miner/Dizzy kind of game. … Continue reading
Pharaoh’s Pyramid was a fairly popular game for the Atari in the early 80’s by Master Control Software, and was a rather enjoyable Q-Bert clone. In the advert, it was stated that a Commodore 64 conversion was coming soon … … Continue reading
A short entry for a title which we know was released, but is yet to be fully preserved. This was an expansion disk for PHM Pegasus by Electronic Arts, and was released back in 1987. The expansion disk seems to … Continue reading
A game company that predominately produced games for the Atari, but also tried to get involved on publishing C64 titles too. They released the game Final Flight! (see advert) and also Trivia Trek in 1984. Phoenix Lair was another title … Continue reading
Text adventure from Kayde who went into administration at the 26th August 1983. Did Spectrum releases, tried to do C64 and Vic 20 ones, which never seemed to surface. The game in the advert (Two adverts were submitted by Peter … Continue reading
An interesting Synapse Software entry now with Picnic Paranoia, which was due for release on Atari 400/800, TRS-80, Apple II and Commodore 64 platforms. The game has you controlling George on a single screen, who has to keep ants and … Continue reading
Part of an educational series, Picture Parts is one of around 6 which is sadly missing and one which may have been released, but is very possible that it didn’t quite make it out. We’re not 100% sure what happened … Continue reading
Pieces 2 was a sequel to a late 90’s puzzler which can be found at Gamebase at http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=5688&d=18&h=0 . Apparently the original game was released too early and by someone else, but we need confirmation on this. Pawel Bol was … Continue reading
Pigs on Marse was an interesting looking RPG which was advertised back in Ahoy! in March 1985. The game was highlighted to us thanks to Matthew Goode who got in touch and supplied a scan of the advert from the … Continue reading
Pimania was an adventure game released very early on back in 1982/83. If you managed to crack the game and interpret the clues correctly – you could work out the time, date and place where someone will be waiting to … Continue reading
Early days, but it seems that Empire Software were considering a sequel very early on to Pipe Mania, so much so that a design document was produced with all the details by The Assembly Line back in 1991. A massive … Continue reading
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