Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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1993 U.S. Gold Platform: Amstrad CPC Our next entry into the archives is one which has tormented Amstrad CPC users for many many years. But were they then perhaps saved from the lack of a Street Fighter 2 conversion? Back … Continue reading
1983 Spectrum Games Platforms: ZX Spectrum, ZX81, Commodore VIC-20 Our next entry into the archives is a collective one for a number of currently missing Spectrum Games titles that were advertised around 1983 time for the likes of the ZX … Continue reading
Not technically a Game That Wasn’t, but a lovely story from Ready64, where Modulus on the Commodore 64 was released with content missing, so it was not possible to complete. One of the coders Ivan Del Duca has now restored … Continue reading
Back in the days before SEGA’s trusty blue mascot appeared on the scene, the company would licence its various games to the likes of Activision, and U.S. Gold – resulting in conversions of Afterburner, Outrun and many more for home computers of the time. Continue reading
2021 System 3 Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 International Karate and IK+ are two titles which helped to really put System 3 on the map, along with of course the Last Ninja series. Archer Maclean did a superb job … Continue reading
1996-2018 System 3 Platforms: PC, Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2, PSX, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 + others Also known as: “The Last Ninja – Return to Lin Fen Island” When you think of System 3, The Last Ninja series probably comes … Continue reading
1984 JCE Platform: Commodore VIC-20 After the recent amazing recovery of Garden Wars on the Commodore 64, our attention now turns to the lost VIC-20 edition of Chess Wars by the same company JCE, which was found in the same … Continue reading
Its now getting cold, but the updates are still coming – and quite a few this month in the Commodore 64 archive with the following: Alleykat rare non-playable demo preserved A nice little bonus to kick off the update thanks … Continue reading
A lovely curiosity added to the archives today thanks to Marco Das, with the preservation of a very rare non-playable demo of Alleykat distributed by Hewson back in the day. It was likely for shops to showcase the game in … Continue reading
Just a short post to add a slightly earlier prototype of Ariolasoft’s Bug Blitz which has been recovered thanks to Csaba Virag and Janos Szeitz (who digitized the turbo tape where it was found).
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