Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 751
1994 Healthwise Platforms: PC and Commodore Amiga Wrecked: A Psychedelic Adventure was an Amiga and PC platformer, developed by KKOS and was apparently published by Healthwise. However, at present – only a shareware demo of the PC version currently exists. … Continue reading
1991 Audiogenic Platforms: ZX Spectrum 128k Only recently has GTW made a surprise recovery of an abandoned Commodore 64 development of Denton Design’s classic Wreckers, though more famous is the ZX Spectrum 128k edition which was promised in 1991, but … Continue reading
Considered vapourware, Denton Design’s Wreckers for the Commodore 64 has been recovered in its final build state. Before you get too excited, sadly the game was only in development for a very short period of time – and essentially what … Continue reading
Bit of an odd one to kick off the week. Years ago my mum picked up a copy of Wreckin Crew by Telstar for the PC in a charity shop around 22 years ago, and I couldn’t get it working … Continue reading
1991 Mirrorsoft Platform: ZX Spectrum 128k Back in 1991, C64 developer and musician Dave Spicer decided to put together a technical demo for a potential conversion of Xenon 2 for the ZX Spectrum. What was produced was pretty stunning – … Continue reading
Following on from our recent Parallel Logic piece – I also recently got speaking with Paul Kubiszyn to find out more about XLCUS, which was a short lived company which was aiming to keep the C64 going. I only needed … Continue reading
1998 Simtex / Speedworks / Europress Platforms: PC, Sony PlayStation and Arcade XLR8 was a futuristic bike racing game, where you race through the likes of volcanic deserts and ancient prehistoric looking rainforests. The game was due to be released … Continue reading
Yves Grolet, programmer on Amiga classics such as Agony and Unreal (so not the Epic game!) has recently archived and released remains of his Amiga hard drive and various floppy disks to the public domain. These include the full sources … Continue reading
1986 Martech Platforms: Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum This is a short stub entry for now which is thanks to Patrick Furlong. At the end of the first game on the ZX Spectrum, there is mention of a Zoids 2 … Continue reading
First GTW64 update for July, which includes the following Zone of Darkness level assets recovered Zone Of Darkness 2 new entries added Body Slam, Circus Circus 7 updates added Arsenal FC, Brides Of Dracula, Heavy Barrel, Rex, The Rocky Horror … Continue reading
1993 Bell-Fruit / Attention to Detail Platform: Arcade What happens when you smash together Gremlin, arcade manufacturer Bell-Fruit and development team Attention To Detail? Well, back in 1993, the result was to be an arcade release of Gremlin’s popular ninja … Continue reading
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