Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 3505
Nimitz was being produced by Martech back in 1988 (possibly started even further back in 1986!) and Andrew found the game whilst scanning through ACE magazine (September 1988). In the mention, the price was quoted as £9.99 for cassette and … Continue reading
New York Crisis was to be sold by Alphavite Publications in the form of the Commodore Disk User game disk series. Unfortunately it seems that the company went bust just before the game packs could be released, owing money to … Continue reading
Nether is a game that I can remember from the days of Commodore Scene, being touted as a Doom clone. Eventually when I saw a preview, there wasn’t much to see and I then completely forgot about it. The game’s … Continue reading
Thanks to Jazzcat for highlighting this one, but on Philippe Lesire’s website, he mentions working on a game called Nereid which sadly didn’t quite make it. Nereid was to be some kind of space game, and Philippe produced a series … Continue reading
A fantastic Super Zelda clone written for the C64 by Crossbow/Crest and was a secret part to the demo Krestage 3 – More Weird Stuff. This awesome clone has to be seen to be believed. Unfortunately it seems we will … Continue reading
A stunning little game, featuring some great graphics and wonderful spot effects and animations. This game was intended to be sold via mail order companies on the C64 for a price of around £8.99, which seems like a reasonable price … Continue reading
Mumbles – Super Spy was another cool looking game from Databyte, and was advertised with their released game, Polar Pierre within all the popular magazines at the time. Just how the game would have played is anyone’s guess. As far … Continue reading
This was to be the original NightShift game, as it started out.. with a victorian toy-making machine. Lucasfilm later stepped in and had all the toys changed and the game changed to what was eventually released as “Nightshift”. It is … Continue reading
A quick entry for a slightly different looking Movie Monster game that was in various magazines at the time. Happy Computer in particular were presented with a preview of “The Movie Monster” in the Spring of 1986 which had a … Continue reading
A GTW title that could be vapourware, but we can confirm there was planning to have a sequel to the fairly well recieved Mothership game that was originally released in 1983 by Softsync and then republished by Artic later. The … Continue reading
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