Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 780
Thanks to Ross Sillifant for bringing a number of unreleased Amiga game screens to our attention, we also spotted some early Silly Putty screens and thought we’d add them to the archive.
2000 Maxis Platforms: Apple Macintosh 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 DLC content to share with you. Within the book … Continue reading
Thanks to Ross Sillifant, Simon Butler sheds some light on a lost Arc Developments ST game: Ross: So, Simon, what could you tell us about various ARC Development titles on ST/AMIGA you were a key part of? Simon: Blimey I’d … Continue reading
A short post about Simon Cooke’s SAM Coupe contributions. His unreleased contributions include Populous(incomplete), Bubble Bobble (unattainable license, 1991), Zub (link to download from there – unfinished, but screenshots exist). Unrelated to Sam Coupe but of great importance is that … Continue reading
2007 IR Gurus Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 It was a time where visual advances in games made it possible to bring comic book ideas to life in a way never thought possible. With a great movie that had been … Continue reading
Date unknown – Audiogenic Platforms: Unknown A short entry for now for a title flagged up by contributor Niklas Lindholm, which was a licenced game based on the legendary footballer Sir Stanley Matthews. The game was mentioned by Audiogenic’s Peter … Continue reading
Copied and pasted directly from the post on the Retro Gamer forum, but pretty much says it all: Six previously unreleased Atari VCS/2600 games that were developed by Jerry Lawsons company, Video Soft, are at last being released! The games … Continue reading
1994 Ocean Software Platforms: Commodore Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 Yet another Ocean Software title goes into the GTW archive, and this time a conversion of Electronic Arts’ Skitchin’, which had been released on the SEGA Megadrive the same year, … Continue reading
1993-1994 Codemasters Platforms: ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, SEGA Mega Drive Slicks is one of my favourite Commodore 64 racing games of all time, but did you know that there were also conversions on the cards for the other … Continue reading
Author of the Codemasters graphic adventure Slightly Magic, Colin Jones, has set up a new Kickstarter project to resurrect the game in a 8-bit legacy edition (with faithfulness to the original graphics), but also with an extra special incentive which … Continue reading
1993 Codemasters Code – Colin Jones Graphics – Keith Ross Music – Allister Brimble (?) This game is one of the rumoured unreleased 22 Codemasters games which one day we hope to track down and bring to you, like Codemasters … Continue reading
1983 HES / Synapse Software Platform: Commodore VIC-20 A short entry for yet another Commodore VIC-20 title that was reported on the Vic-20 Cartridge Rarity list and may well be unreleased, or otherwise saw a very limited release. We’re not … Continue reading
199X Nestle Platform: PC Also known as: Smarties: Colourland Adventure Not to be confused with Smarties: Meltdown on the PS2, this was a game released in a promotional way where you likely had to save up smarties lids to send … Continue reading
1992 Unknown Platforms: PC Engine Following on from our report about a possible Gods conversion on the PC Engine, we now take a look at what seemed to be a conversion of Toaplan’s Snow Bros that was due for release … Continue reading
1995 Krisalis Platform: Atari Jaguar Soccer Kid is your average platform affair where you control a young lad who plays soccer and uses his football skills to get around various levels. The story is that the World Cup has been … Continue reading
1995-1998 Crush / SunSoft Platform: PC An intriguing football title which was one of the most ambitious football gaming projects of its time. Kicked off originally by UK based developer Crush in 1995, originally under the name of “Live Soccer” … Continue reading
1992 Electronic Zoo Platform: Commodore Amiga Son of Zeus was set within the mythical era of the Greek gods, where an evil being has captured the gods within their lair and smashed the artefact that could save them into several … Continue reading
1994 SEGA Platform: SEGA Mega Drive Please note that this is just a quick placeholder post, where we have split up an old post which flagged up 3 entries. The original text that follows is from our old team member … 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
1993-1994 Imagitec Platforms: Atari Falcon and Jaguar, Sega Mega CD, Amiga CD 32 and PC As we moved into the 1990s, games were becoming far bigger and bolder – especially with emerging new data storage options for consoles and computers. … Continue reading
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