Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1906
This was to be a baseball game written by Garry Kitchen for Activision, and was getting quite far and looking good according to Garry. The game itself had a new playing perspective; over the pitcher’s sholder looking in at the … Continue reading
Just after Evil Dead, Palace Software were planning a range of other horror titles according to a small news snippet in Commodore User magazine back in 1984. Basket Case was another of those titles, but like with Halloween – it … Continue reading
ACE magazine issue 4 had a pre-production screenshot of Basket Master from Imagine and Dinamic which looks pretty different to the final version we all know from Gary Biasillo. We’ll ignore the fact that there are no hoops just yet, … Continue reading
1993 Krisalis Software Platforms: Various A very short entry for now and for a potential sequel to Soccer Kid, a platformer game where you control a kid with a football who can perform a series of special moves to defeat … Continue reading
1989 SunSoft Platform: PC Engine Batman was indeed released on the PC Engine, though a much different design for the game was once underway by Sunsoft, and based closely on the 1989 Batman movie. Originally scheduled for release in December … Continue reading
Following on from Neverending Story and Hunchback – The Adventure, there was plans for a 3rd game to use the very same engine developed by the late Ian Weatherburn. After getting the licence for Batman and having the 3D game … Continue reading
A game which has been debated a lot whether it was even in development for our beloved C64. Batman 3D was unreleated to the movie, and was an isometric Ultimate style game by Jon Ritman and Bertie Drummond. It got … Continue reading
A successful film sequel and a widely promoted game in both Commodore Format and Commodore Force magazines here in the UK from between 1992-1993. Konami, not often known for releasing their own C64 games at that time, decided that their … Continue reading
1993 Gametek Platform: Atari ST (also Commodore 64 – See link below) We have had a detailed page on the cancelled C64 development for quite some time – but hadn’t realised that an Atari ST edition once existed until flagged … Continue reading
Been a while since we last did an unused materials/prototype post. This time we have a very quick one thanks to Ross Sillifant. In the advert for Batman Returns on the Lynx, you’ll notice that there are a number of … Continue reading
1990 Renovation Products Platform: SEGA Mega Drive Battle Mission was an exciting looking Operation Wolf style game that was due for release on the SEGA Mega Drive back in 1990 by Renovation Products. The game was based in the middle … Continue reading
A very quick entry for a title we know very little about. Battle Truck was a title listed in the Screen Test Budgets section of ACE magazine (Issue 20, May 1989 – Page 66) as coming soon. The game however … Continue reading
Battlecars was advertised in various magazines, and was released on the Spectrum, but also had a Commodore 64 advertised to be coming soon. This was never to be, and the game remains unreleased. The game involved you building up your … Continue reading
Battlefield Germany was part of the Wargamers series by PSS and was advertised in their catalogues, but the C64 version has never surfaced by the looks of things. The Spectrum version did however, so we know something exists ( http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000469 … Continue reading
Lucasfilm released this flight simulator on the Amiga, ST and PC in 1988 and it was well received, earning an Action Game of the Year award from Computer Gaming World magazine. The player took control of aircraft fighting in four … Continue reading
Battlestorm was a fair multiscrolling shooter in the style of Xenon and Time Pilot 84 and was released on the Amiga in the early 90’s. It seems that a C64 version was on the cards for Disk and Tape, which … Continue reading
Another unreleased game which was a planned conversion by Storm for the C64. The game was mentioned from various sources, including Commodore Power, issue 1, page 9 – saying… "Mindscape have finally given the Battletoads (NES’s superheroes) a home. After … Continue reading
1994 Atari Platform: Atari Jaguar Battlezone 2000 was one of the early planned titles for the Atari Jaguar and mentioned in various magazines over a period of time, but it was never to surface – or did it in some … Continue reading
A game created by the author of Ultimate’s “Imhotep” in a very short career on the C64. The developer also worked on another title which was to be a conversion of a classic Atari game, Batty Builders which he earlier … Continue reading
1994 Starbyte Platform: Commodore Amiga Our next entry is thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz, and is of a title that was eventually released on PC for the German market in 1997, but was due an Amiga release much earlier. Bazooka Sue … Continue reading
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