Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1928
This may well be a red herring, but ACE magazine’s review of the Spectrum game by Mastertronic suggests that a C64 conversion may have been considered. We’ll keep things short for now until we get further confirmation, but you can … Continue reading
Plum Duff was a Christmas game being produced by Jason C Brooke, before he fully broke into pure music development. It was 1985, and after producing an unreleased music tool for Melbourne House in 1984 – he produced the Plum … Continue reading
I had the pleasure of being a guest on the “Nice and Nasty Gaming Podcast” with Mamemeister recently! We chatted about Games That Weren’t, how I first got into gaming, and picked out three games I’d take to a desert … Continue reading
Very quick entry, but mentioned in a 1997 edition of Commodore Scene was a new Poker game being worked on by Ewen Gillies. At present there is a Solitare game in GB64, but not a Poker game. Does this one … Continue reading
Police Quest was the first of a trilogy written by former officer Jim Walls. It centered on you controlling Officer Sonny Bonds who had to solve various murders and drug cases. This was a favourite on the Amiga and it … Continue reading
A short entry for a title highlighted to us thanks to Pirate Dragon. This was an economic strategy game related to the French Ministry of Finance and was released for the Thomson computers, as well as an SC-3000 version too. … Continue reading
A very short entry for a title which may well be out in the wild somewhere. Pontoon was as you’d expect, a computerised version of the popular card game that can be played with one or two players. The game … Continue reading
An interesting entry, which was a Game Creator game produced by Andrew Boosey of Hayes, Middlesex. This seems to have been for a competition of some kind to prove that good games could be produced using Games Creator. The competition … Continue reading
This isn’t actually the title of the game…. but the title at the time wasn’t decided when Beyond Belief were given an introduction to the pages of Commodore Force. They had promise of many titles (Many with titles which sounded … Continue reading
Another title highlighted by Peter Weighill which seems to be long lost on the C64, with Pop Quiz 85. A title created by Independent Software and sold via mail order between late 1984 and early 1985. The game was advertised … Continue reading
I can’t believe that in 2020, we didn’t have this game in the archives! I’ve known about it for years and assumed it was already there when I kept seeing the game listed in Commodore Format’s early warning scanner. When … Continue reading
Prehistorik is a platforming game from Titus which is a sort of Caveman Ninja/Chuck Rock clone of sorts that did fairly well on the Amiga platform. In the German magazine "ASM", issue 7/91, there was a double page advert for … Continue reading
An interesting title brought to my attention from a reader of Atariage.com, Avram Dumitrescu. This is a kind of frogger clone which was developed for Adventure International by a guy called Russ Wetmore. A review of the released Atari game … Continue reading
Did you know that Preppie was meant to have been a trilogy? Neither did we – though thanks to Avram Dumitrescu, we learn that back in 2005 it was established that Russ Wetmore was planning to create a 3rd game called Preppies in Space thanks to an interview. Continue reading
Priceless scrolls was being sold as a "A Scripture Treasure Hunt Game Based on Biblical Principles" in a 1992 issue of RUN magazine from the US. The game was sold on disk, but it seems that this is one that … Continue reading
Designed by another best-selling science fiction author, Walter Jon Williams, Pride and Prejudice was billed as a game of 19th century romance and today is possibly the most sought after game from the Berserker Works stable. Apparently it was released, … Continue reading
A game which has been known about for some years, but only really for its music by Drax. The music has been used in various places over the years, and has been ever present in HVSC almost since the beginning. … Continue reading
Confirmed – finally! …. but Domark were indeed working on a C64 conversion of Prince of Persia. Who confirmed it?… Chris West. Who is now hoping to recover a copy to show to the world and said the following on … Continue reading
It is true that Prince Of Persia was to have an official conversion onto the C64 by none other than E&E, the creators of Lemmings on the C64. Although quite late into the C64’s life, Prince Of Persia was to … Continue reading
The Legend Of Prince Valiant was to be a platform game based on the cartoon series shown on BBC television in the early 90’s. Ocean bought the licence and had planned to do conversions across a series of platforms. Commodore … Continue reading
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