Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 61
1990-2025 Jaleco / Retro Bit Platform: SEGA Mega Drive A short entry for a cancelled conversion of the Jaleco classic arcade. This is old news, but the cancelled P-47 II: The Freedom Star for the SEGA Mega Drive was recently … Continue reading
With thanks to Ross Sillifant, it has been highlighted from a MEGA Power interview with Steve Turner that a PC Engine edition of Paradroid was once in production, as well as a unknown console edition of Total Recall. Paradroid 90 … Continue reading
1994 Psygnosis 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
1994-2013 System 3 Platforms: Apple iOS, Commodore Amiga 1200, Nintendo Game Boy Color, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii U, PC (DOS + Windows), SEGA Mega Drive, Sony PlayStation 2 and Sony PlayStation Portable As part of the launch and release of The … Continue reading
2000 Quantic Dream Platform: Dreamcast A short post on a cancelled Dreamcast adventure game that was in development by Quantic Dream back in 2000, following on from their Omikron development. Below is a magazine article and several screenshots from the … Continue reading
1995 Acclaim Entertainment Platform: SEGA Master System A very short entry for now on a Master System conversion of Rise of the Robots that never was – or was it? The game itself is famous for looking amazing, but not … Continue reading
1993-1994 Hot-Shot Entertainments Platforms: Commodore Amiga, PC, SEGA Mega Drive and Super Nintendo Our next entry into the archives is a bizarre title which seems to have got around in various magazines, and across a number of platforms – each … Continue reading
Whilst working and researching on the write up for Virtua Hamster for the Games That Weren’t book, we were loaned a bunch of assets from David A Palmer for the book and later website. Part of the archive was a … Continue reading
1994 Denton Designs Platforms: PC, Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn Retro Gamer issue 113 had once featured an excellent feature on the trilogy of Shadowfire by Martyn Carroll. Trilogy? Well, you’ll need to check out the article to find out … 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
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
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
1996 Accolade Platforms: Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation A short entry for now on what sadly was to be an abandoned conversion of Star Control III for both the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation platforms. The game was eventually released … Continue reading
Super Fighter Team (a classic game publisher based in San Diego, California) has recently brought out a new commercial release for the Sega Mega Drive called Star Odyssey, a role-playing game set in the future. This game, which was originally … Continue reading
Its time to finally lay the rumor to bed. There wasn’t a Mega CD version of the classic game, Cannon Fodder. The rumors have existed since the days of the Megadrive and have never really be confirmed or denied one … Continue reading
1991-1992 U.S. Gold Platforms: SEGA Master System + Game Gear, SEGA Mega Drive, Commodore Amiga (Adventure), Atari ST (Adventure), PC (Adventure) Recently, there has been a call to expand our SEGA Master System entries within the archive. Intrigued by a … Continue reading
1993 SEGA Platform: Sega Mega Drive Graphic artist Craig Stitt has recently been putting up a lot of brilliant unseen materials from his SEGA days, and has today just added a video showing screens from another Sonic related title called … Continue reading
Sadly not all Games That Werent investigations turn out successfully, and many times we find out about an unreleased or cancelled game only to find out that whatever work was done on it is also lost to the ether. I … Continue reading
The Dizzy series is legendary among ZX Spectrum enthusiasts and the series were released across most home computer systems in the 1980s. Less well known are the console versions, even though numerous games were released on the NES and Master … Continue reading
Kevin Hall kindly got in touch recently to inform us about the start of some notes made on unreleased Dreamcast games over at Reddit.com We hope to have more Dreamcast related materials on the site soon, but for now check … Continue reading
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