Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1899
This game and Break Street were supposed to be Firebird’s proof that budget games could be quality games too according to Martin Defries, who was sales manager of Telecomsoft at the time. Pyramid of Time was for 1 or 2 … Continue reading
Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. Pyramids Of The Sun was the follow-up to Castle Blackstar, and was set for release in October 1984. Chris’ feature … Continue reading
198? Parker Bros Platform: Commodore Vic 20 Is this a vapourware title, or was something feasibly started of this Q-Bert sequel on the Vic? The game’s manual for the Atari platform all but confirms that “Commodore” was due a conversion, … Continue reading
Q-Castle is an old C64 game which was mentioned in an old magazine, along with a screenshot (Though we assume this, as the game details comes from the entry currently in Gamebase 64). From the looks of things, this would … Continue reading
Not entirely sure why we hadn’t featured this one earlier, but Q8 (i’ll keep it to Q8 to save time!) was being produced across all formats by Thalamus as an exciting 3D racer game. It was never to be for … Continue reading
A short entry for a Commodore MAX title that was proposed, but never finished and released. This was a Qix-type game by Threshold Research’s Sandy & Doug Hughes, but we know little more at this stage. If you know anything … Continue reading
A very short entry for now regarding a game which was produced by a young Karl Hörnell when he was around 14. The game was Qrazy Qber, and was a Qbert clone done at a time when there were not … Continue reading
A very quick entry for a pack of games/utilities from Bubble Bus which don’t seem to have yet been preserved. Were they even released? Word Wizard is confirmed to be just a word processing package, thanks to MarkTheMorose. Now confirmed … Continue reading
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Quality Input, Inc., 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 … Continue reading
A potentially stunning SEU was in development back in 1988, not specifically for Elite Software, but seeing as the game’s two developers were working at Elite, we can see where they wished the game had gone. Richard Underhill struck up … Continue reading
An interesting game demo finding on Ashley Routledge’s disks recently came in the shape of Quantarallax, which is an early Delta sort of clone that never seemed to get released. The game was developed by Quantum Designs, who consisted of … Continue reading
2000 Quantic Dream Platform: Dreamcast A short post on a cancelled Dreamcast adventure game that was in development by Quantic Dream back in 2000, following on from their Omikron development. Below is a magazine article and several screenshots from the … Continue reading
Briefly mentioned in Aktueller Software Markt (05/1986), it was stated that Quazatron (the Spectrum version of Paradroid), was to be released also on the Amstrad and CPC. Mostly as it was practically a different game! One issue later however, the … Continue reading
Thanks to Fabrizio for picking up on this one, but in an interview with Matthew Hubbard (2600 developer), he mentioned that he worked on a C64 game called Queen Bee that never saw the light of day. He mentioned also … Continue reading
Quest for Cyrus was announced in 2001 as coming soon by programmer Lorin Millsap. Described as “a game with a playing style much like that of Nintendo’s Zelda and the Final Fantasy series.” Commodore Wire news site at the time … Continue reading
Quest for Eternity was to be a space based text-adventure written by David Cockram with Argus Press and their Mind Games department. The description was as simple as “Starring The Overlords of the Universe. The candidate (you) have to get … Continue reading
1985 Adventure International Platforms: Dragon 32, Commodore Plus 4 This is a short entry to extend our Dragon 32/Plus/4 entries into the Games That Weren’t archive, with what was suggested as being a new Adventure International title that was being … Continue reading
Our next entry into the archives is an obscure sideways scrolling game where you control Eddie, whose great passion is hang gliding. The game got mentioned recently in a new thread on Lemon64. The adventure begins with news of the … Continue reading
Quiz Quest – "The computer game with all the right questions – Can you supply the right answers?" is the banner within the advert campaign of this other lost game, this time another Alligata Software title. The game was a … Continue reading
Quo Vadis was to be a German adventure with animated graphics and some other nice little features. The vocabulary wasn’t that big (200 words), but the game was judged as a good solid adventure game with excellent animated graphics. The … Continue reading
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