Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 3563
A very short entry for what could just be a mistake in the press. Astaroth: Angel of Death was an average game released on the Amiga/ST in 1989 by Hewson software, which was a scrolling platformer game. Greek magazine “Pixel” … Continue reading
Thanks to Brendan Phoenix for the heads up. Zzap 64 in October 1986 had a small news snippet about Scarabaeus 2 coming soon from Ariolasoft. Apparently the Zzap team had seen something of the game and thought it was very … Continue reading
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment have yesterday made Habitat Open Source, by releasing all of the code on GitHub. Work has been going on since 2013 to try and preserve everything, and now the goal is to try … Continue reading
As you may have guessed, Space Invadaz was to be a Space Invader clone, but modernized with a fresh new look. It isn’t known what the game was intended for and for whom, but the development disks recovered by Triad … Continue reading
Blaster Twins is a very early Bomberman clone which was being developed for Threshold Productions in the 90’s. There isn’t a huge amount that can be done, apart from blow up some bricks and move both players around. The Green … Continue reading
Our next entry in the database is thanks to contributor Asphodel, who has flagged up a title which is 30 years old this year and one that we haven’t yet added to the archives. Race with the Devil is a … Continue reading
A cheat entry for now, as its possible that all 4 of the games were actually released – so this is more of a call to try and find these games and get them digitally preserved and available. Piper Software … Continue reading
Games That Weren’t is a freely ran project, 100% non-profitable and done in our own free time. To ensure minimum downtime, storing vast amounts of scans, downloads and information we have to pay for our hosting. UPDATE! – We have … Continue reading
Recently, Mark Hardisty has launched a website full of memorabilia in preparation for the launch of his new A Gremlin In The Works book. Part of this included source code files which were donated by Anthony J Clarke, which included … Continue reading
A very short entry to essentially store a record to what was an earlier edition of Netherworld. Originally named as Abyss Zone, this was to be a 300 screen game with surealistic graphics. Eventually the game morphed into Netherworld, but … Continue reading
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