Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 79
Yet another magazine showing screenshots of one of our favourite titles, but with graphics not ever gracing the final game. Take a look at the screenshots in November 1987’s edition of Commodore User magazine below (scans thanks to Mort!) and … Continue reading
1986 Archer Maclean / System 3 Platform: Commodore 64 (Atari to come) In late 2023, Games That Weren’t was tasked with trying to preserve all of the late Archer Maclean’s work disks – including Atari and C64 formatted disks. At … Continue reading
NOTE: This has been brought into the GTW64 archive as a V1 entry at: Knuckle Buster V1 A quick addition showing a rather different looking Knuckle Buster game on the C64 by Mat Sneap. Luckily in this case the preview … Continue reading
Flicking through the last issue of Zzap!64 back in late 1992, I rediscovered an early screenshot and the first to be shown of the Commodore 64 version of Lemmings. It would be a year until the final game saw release. … Continue reading
After some digging around and very careful tape backing up, Jeff Minter has discovered and released a whole range of unseen Llamasoft games on the Vic 20 platform (and one on the Commodore PET). In maybe a weekend of preservation … Continue reading
Following on from the Jonathan Kendall collection, Mike Berry recently came forward with the offer of making available the editor he created to generate levels for Reckless Rufus. With the possibility of more to come, I have set up a … Continue reading
A quick post showing two early Atari Lynx developments which would eventually turn into something completely different. Thanks to Ross Sillifant for highlighting both. The first is a title called Monster Demolition, which has some video footage online of the … Continue reading
Triad recently released an early build of Moonfall, which was a vector game by the late Jukka TapanimÁ¤ki. The game was developed in 1989, but heavy delays meant that Hewson/21st Century Entertainment didn’t get to release the game until 1991. … Continue reading
Following on from the recent console cancellation of Myth covered on the site, team member Grzegorz Antosiewicz got in touch to highlight a series of changes to the Amiga/ST editions of Myth. What follows is based mostly on the text … Continue reading
It seems like Commodore User magazine were a little naughty with their Nemesis review back in the 80’s. Featuring screenshots from what seem to be an earlier version of the game – just look at the brown/orange score panels, which … Continue reading
Not an unreleased game entry, but an early demo/prototype of this Commodore 64 graphic adventure game that was released by Ordilogic/Lankhor back in 1989. This was found on a set of disks by Csaba Virag, and was likely sent out … Continue reading
Following on from the recent PC DOS release of an unreleased conversion of Team 17’s Overdrive thanks to Damiano Gerli, GTW’s Grzegorz Antosiewicz dug out a series of early screens from the game. Overall showing many differences and features not … Continue reading
Platoon was a superb movie tie-in game from Ocean Software back in 1988 with some excellent varied levels that captured the essence of the movie. Thanks to contributor Martin Inter, here are some slightly earlier Commodore 64 screens which show … Continue reading
2023 Silvan Reinhold / Psytronik Software Platform: Commodore 64 If you haven’t seen Polar Bear in Space already, then you are missing out on a wonderful shooter/platformer which has elements of Wizball, Retrograde and even Dropzone with the explosion of … Continue reading
We are already currently aware of a very early version of RISK, which can be downloaded from here… http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=10980&d=18&h=0 However, the first issue of The Games Machine showed some preview shots of RISK, which have a slightly different panel, scanner … Continue reading
2005 SCi Platforms: Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox A short entry to cover an earlier incarnation of Eidos Iteractive’s Urban Chaos: Riot Response. The game began life as a sequel to SWAT: Global Team Strike, before evolving into Roll … Continue reading
Next up is a short entry for a potential prototype to try and find, thanks to Ross Sillifant for highlighting. When you take a look at the original Tecmo arcade, and various home conversions – you will notice that pretty … Continue reading
There are some nice surprises that turn up from time to time in the C64 scene, and one recent one has been the surfacing of the Tape / Disk masterer of Edge/Softek’s conversion of Shao Lin’s Road on the C64. … Continue reading
Following on from the early screens from the original Silly Putty post (released as Putty), here are more, but this time from the sequel that would eventually become Putty Squad.
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.
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