Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 3505
Not quite unreleased news, but an improved A06 version of The Quill and Illustrator for the Commodore 64 has recently been preserved, after it being realised that it hadn’t yet been done. Version A05 has been around for a long … Continue reading
A very short entry for a game that eventually saw release, but actually was meant to be a fully licensed game. If you ever played Novogen’s Battle Island, then you may have noticed that the sprites look rather much like … Continue reading
Sword of Sodan was a hack and slash game that was released in 1989 on the Amiga, as well as the Sega Megadrive in 1990. It featured very large characters and did fairly well at the time. Reviewed in CVG, … Continue reading
American Dream was a game by Blue Chip Software (and Jim Zuber?) that was planned to be a simulation of a robotics manufacturing business over 72 operating months. It came with a very high price of $119.95 – so we … Continue reading
Had another few more bits and pieces come through over the past week or so – so here is another digest of recent updates – including two new full games (Equinox + Soda Shop) that were recovered by Peepo, Tom … Continue reading
Thanks to the great efforts of Peepo and Tom Roger Skauren, many disks have been preserved that used to belong to the late Gary Sabin – who wrote the US Gold loading music and handled mastering duties. The disks were … Continue reading
A slightly naughty attempt at cashing in on the Douglas Adams title of the same name, Supersoft didn’t get very far when they were issued with a lawsuit to prevent a proper release of the game. Eventually, the game had … Continue reading
A very short entry of a Thor/Odin game which was to be based on the Terminator licence, after a potential licence deal fell through. Zzap did a small feature and news snippet with the game, which mentioned a story which … Continue reading
A game that was due to be released from Ronald Mayer, who was an Austrian programmer of a large number of C64 games in the 80’s. In a 2015 interview, Ronald reveals that Maze Patrol was to be his first … Continue reading
Second update of the year with two new previews added to the site: Escape from London remains added An adventure game due for release for 2013 has now been added in what could be its final state. Full story about … Continue reading
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