Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1899
When the C64 was dying out commercially, Jon Wells was trying to flood the C64 with new releases. One of his ideas was to take the entire back catalogue of Clive Wilson adventure titles and update them with new graphics, … Continue reading
A big thanks to Carlos who recently flagged up this game which some light was shed at the Spanish retro-party RetroMatrid in 2010. Viaje al Centro de la Tierra (Journey to the Center of the Earth) was a sort of … Continue reading
I’m not completely sure why we haven’t looked into this one before, but it was flagged up recently on the Lemon 64 forum about if a UK release of Victory Road ever existed. So did it? Well between 1987 and … Continue reading
Another quickie – whilst hunting through some disks from Andrew Morris, we found a sprite set which contained the planets from Mega Apocalypse, and a very simple ship. Additionally there were sprites with Video Images Software text made out of … Continue reading
The unknown Vietnam game was another title which never was from Orpheus Software, and was a wargame that tried to cash in on the many Vietnam films that were around at the time. It apparently may have come from Tim … Continue reading
Vietnam Gunboat 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 never surfaced and doesn’t seem to have come out on any other … Continue reading
This was to be a conversion of the Irem arcade back around 1988 time by FIL/Sales Curve. Commodore User, September 1988 issue mentioned that French software company FIL had got the licence. UK representatives of FIL were The Sales Curve … Continue reading
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
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