Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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1983-1984 Archer Maclean Platform: Atari 800 Whilst working to recover the late Archer Maclean’s work disks, we discovered a few things which surprised us. As well as games, Archer also did a bit of freelance development work outside of games … Continue reading
Games That Weren’t has been running for a quarter of a century this year, which is not only staggering, but also a bit scary if I’m honest. For 25 years, we have been documenting and preserving as much unreleased software … Continue reading
Thanks to documentary creator Moleman, here is a documentary regarding a cancelled Star Trek game that was being developed for Activision back in 2003 by Hungarian development team – Digital Reality. Here is a deleted scenes video (which is in … Continue reading
It is a big week, as we celebrate our 25th Anniversary of Games That Weren’t. It’s also our monthly update to the Commodore 64 archive, with plenty of new and updated materials for you to check out. 2,500 entries now … Continue reading
Our next entry is for a title that unfortunately had a successful Kickstarter campaign, but seems to have been abandoned without any further updates from the developer since 2019. A number of updates were made on the Kickstarter page, but … Continue reading
Another fairly recent title which sadly seems to have been abandoned, and a lovely multi-screen scrolling platformer too – where you control a strange object that can bounce and collect items and turn into a spike ball to kill enemies … Continue reading
Our next entry into the archives is a fairly recent development from 2018 which sadly seems to have been abandoned. Beat Em Up (working title) is a set of test concepts where you have two players that can fight against … Continue reading
A short entry for a 3DCK based game which may or may not have been fully finished, but had two versions released around 1996 time by Motiv 8. Both versions seem to have a lot of bugs in them, but … Continue reading
A short entry for a Hungarian text adventure that has been saved by Csaba Virag, and one which doesn’t seem to be yet preserved. We’re not sure what the intention was for the game, if it was commercial or just … Continue reading
1995 Acclaim Platforms: Commodore Amiga 1200, CD32 Yet another late Amiga conversion, which sadly seems to have fallen by the wayside due to the dwindling market at the time. NBA Jam Tournament Edition was a particularly high profile title which … Continue reading
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