Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1892
Yet another football game for the C64, though an unreleased one luckily for you who are sick of all the poor footy games to grace the C64 (excluding just a few). Screen 7 announced the signing of Vinnie Jones (who … Continue reading
Virgin Atlantic Challenge was to be an arcade game based on Richard Branson’s attempt to break the transatlantic speed record in a boat. So, not the same game which was released later on with the rather cool Rob Hubbard tune. … Continue reading
Virocop is an often overlooked classic Amiga game by Graftgold that was released in 1995, a spiritual sequel of sorts to the likes of Quazatron and Magnetron that you may have missed. If you did, then check it out! Thanks … Continue reading
Time to put this one out of its misery.. maybe? Virus has been one of the mysterious mysteries in the lost gaming world on the C64, the subject of rumour and also April fool jokes! It is a 3D game … Continue reading
Yet another Taskset GTW has come to light thanks to the stearling work of Paul Drury and his discussions with the Taskset crew. The game ‘Vulcan’ originally started off as an arcade board called ‘Hunter’ which was being done by … Continue reading
A very short post to flag up some unused assets that were intended for the Psygnosis classic – Walker, thanks to Karl Kuras for highlighting. Tucked away in a Work In Progress feature within The One magazine (issue 47), screens … Continue reading
The source of this next entry is interesting as it was mentioned in "Illegal" pirate fanzine as something seen at PC 1988 show (or so it seems) by SSD of Cosmos. At present we know very little about the game … Continue reading
A quick entry until we get more information, but Wanted: Dead or Alive was a strategy/adventure game which was being advertised by Visualize Software in their 1994 catalogue for the price of £3.99. The game was set as TBA on … Continue reading
A short entry for a title that was due out by the demo crew turned game development team – Ambush . More details on them can be found at https://csdb.dk/group/?id=768 The game was an unofficial conversion of the PC game, … Continue reading
1988-1993 NEC Platform: PC Engine Aka: Wardner no Mori and Wardona Forest Toaplan’s Wardner is a side scrolling platformer, similar in some ways to Ghosts n Goblins, and was ported to a number of platforms over the years. One version … Continue reading
Referring to the Sinclair User review… “You play an evil Wizard who’s castle of darkness has been attacked by those nasty forces of good. So, being the nasty type you are, you natuarlly go off into the deepest levels of … Continue reading
Warlord was to be a re-release of an old Interceptor graphic text adventure from 1985 on the new Players label. ACE magazine listed it in their budget section and stated a C64 version was being released. However, it was believed … Continue reading
A very short placeholder entry for yet another missing 1987 American Action title – Warp One Mentioned in Svenska Hemdator Nytt No.4/1987, it is suggested that the game would be released soon by the company on the Commodore 64 and … Continue reading
Yet another title from Starbyte and Bonespark… and yet another GTW entry. This time we are greeted with a promising looking arcade adventure game, which sadly doesn’t seem to have got very far before it was cancelled. Originally, the game … Continue reading
1995 Software Creations / Interplay Platforms: 3DO and Sony PlayStation As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus DLC content to share with … Continue reading
Released on the Amiga back in 1989, Wayne Gretzky Hockey was a great little game of hockey. In an 1989 issue of games magazine "Games Player’s" and in its Amiga review, it mentioned that a C64/128 version was being planned … Continue reading
It was 1993 and around the time that Jon Wells was doing Easy Lives for Commodore Force. Jon also had a nice little platform game being produced with some fantastic bitmapped graphics by Michael Smith. The game was ‘The Adventures … Continue reading
Due for release in March 1985, Wendellwood Estates was believed to have been a graphical adventure from Zinta Micro-Systems in 1985. Sadly, although advertised in the US – it seems the game was never released. Quite possibly it was due … Continue reading
Very early days for this one, but in an up and coming interview with Larry DeMar, Paul Drury kindly passed on confirmation that Larry DeMar after leaving Williams started a C64 conversion of Wheel of Fortune. We know little more … Continue reading
A quick entry for a title flagged up by contributor Atari Frog, which was an educational game about the stock market. It was released on the Atari 400/800 around 1981 and was advertised as being available for the Commodore 64. … Continue reading
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