Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 12
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment have yesterday made Habitat Open Source, by releasing all of the code on GitHub. Work has been going on since 2013 to try and preserve everything, and now the goal is to try … Continue reading
Just seeing all the Halloween posts today, I wondered if there were that many Halloween/Horror related games in the GTW archive, so decided to have a bit of a delve and was quite surprised just how many cancelled titles there … Continue reading
1994 Digital Illusions / Psygnosis Platforms: Commodore Amiga and SEGA MegaDrive Recently we reported on a lost SEGA MegaDrive conversion of Benefactor, which the press had wrongly attributed screenshots from another game called Hardcore. Hardcore itself was a fantastic looking … Continue reading
2001 Delsyd Software Platform: AmigaOne Initially there were big plans with Delsyd Software, with a team of 8 people, a hope to develop a host of new software for the Commodore Amiga during some dark days. When the team moved … Continue reading
Although a few weeks old news now, with the addition just now of some previously unseen development materials, we thought it would be worth mentioning news on the main site about the up and coming new development. That’s right, with … Continue reading
1989 Eldritch the Cat Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and PC 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 content to … Continue reading
198? Guido Henkel Platform: Commodore Vic 20 Hellowoon was a graphic text adventure that was released on the Atari ST and C64 around 1987 by Ariolasoft, and was written by Guido Henkel. In an interview on Atarilegend.com, Guido reveals that … Continue reading
1993 Software 2000 Platform: Commodore Amiga A short entry for a graphic text adventure sequel for the Commodore Amiga, and due for release by Software 2000 in 1993. Hexuma: Das Auge Des Kal was released to some positive reviews, and … Continue reading
1983 Melbourne House Platform: Commodore Vic 20 This came as a bit of a shock when Chris Poacher first highlighted on the Vic 20 Facebook group that Melbourne House had advertised a Vic 20 version of Hungry Horace in Personal … Continue reading
Thanks to Raffox for flagging this one up from the Gamebase 64 archives, but although we mainly deal with trying to find unreleased games or vastly different versions of a released game, we also like to examine and take a … Continue reading
2000 Sland Media Platforms: Commodore Amiga, PC Following on from the release of Exodus: The Last War, there was to be yet another potentially great strategy game from the same creators, for both Amiga and PC. The game was teased … Continue reading
Missing for 35 years, a preview of the long lost Hydrogenese on the Commodore 64 has finally been recovered by CBA/SCS+TRC. A brilliant early look at what could have been an amazing space shooter! In addition to the shooter part … Continue reading
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