Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 335
Hidden in the Thalamus archives is a game called Nuker. A bizzare name, but a rather interesting game! Standing for “NUclear SnooKER”, the obective is for the player to guide his spherical craft around randomly shaped areas, shooting spherical toxic … Continue reading
Although not an unreleased game as such, this is an obscure C64 based compilation that was released late in the C64’s life, which featured commercial games as PD games. It’s likely not many sold, and as a result hasn’t really … Continue reading
Confirmed by JDP (who can search Gamebase64 far better than I!) that these were in fact released on the C64 in some shape or form and can be downloaded from here: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=5595&d=18&h=0 http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=5414&d=18&h=0 Case closed!
Even after many years of GTW running, there are still many interesting titles and bits being uncovered, and this was been the case yet again in 2021 with a finding thanks to the preservation efforts of Csaba Virag who found … Continue reading
1985 Protocom Platform: Atari 400/800 Apologies to Bertrand / Atari Mania, we’re a little late reporting news of this finding that was made back in March by Philsan / Filippo Santellocco. In 1985 Raph Koster programmed his first ever game … Continue reading
Now then, our next entry is a title which was never advertised in the press or mentioned. It was highlighted to us when Andrew Morris (Magnetic Fields graphic artist, who did graphics for Kikstart 2, Lotus 2 and many others) … Continue reading
Thanks to the section from Gamebase, a game which they are also searching for, i’m able to produce a strong review for this game. Most sections are borrowed from the Gamebase review, so therefore credits are given at the foot. … Continue reading
1989 Mastertronic Platforms: ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 A short entry for a Mastertronic title that never was called Planet 10 – a late title that was due for release back in 1989. It is thanks to a great article … Continue reading
Not unreleased it seems, but a hard to find set of titles which aid with writing which had been missing for some time. Allan Pinkerton has kindly preserved 3 of 4 titles in the series, which we are pleased to … Continue reading
A tragic tale for this title, where Plotting was in fact fully completed and even reviewed by the top C64 magazines at the time. The game was planned for Cartridge release, to allow for instantaneous action and plenty of graphical … Continue reading
A colourful single screen platform adventure game comes in the form of a oddly named game ‘Pluff’… Named after the blobby main character who has to go around various rooms collecting various objects, in classic JSW style action. The game … Continue reading
A short entry for a Pong game that has been recovered by Csaba Virag, and what seems to be a German pong game that was potentially released and written by Matthias Goldmann. The game seems pretty complete, but we’re not … Continue reading
Even after well over 20 years since the formation of the GTW64 digital archive, we are still often surprised by what turns up from time to time. In October 2021 is yet another surprise thanks to preservationist Ken Van Mersbergen. … Continue reading
1984 Simon Freeman and David Hayhoe Platform: ZX Spectrum 48k Our next entry is an interesting Popeye clone that was produced for the ZX Spectrum back in 1984. It was discovered on a set of tapes at Ocean by Mark … Continue reading
Another GTW from Channel 8 Software, this game presumably followed a similar pattern to other GTWs, ‘Gotcha’ Maths and Toddler Tutor, essentially being educational games for young children. There isn’t any more information on these games sadly, they have entries … Continue reading
Confirmed as released and can be downloaded here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=125721 Case closed!
Now for something we wouldn’t normally focus on, but in this case, we are looking at a particular title which was to be commercial. With Project Argus, we were looking at a very ambitious SEUCK effort from Alf Yngve which … Continue reading
A very big thanks to Mauricio Muñoz Lucero for highlighting this one for us. Proteus is basically Warhawk V1 which has recently surfaced thanks to the author of Warhawk digging out his unreleased software whilst he develops the new Warhawk … Continue reading
Following on from the news about Project Argus, also comes Psykozone… The additional lost title from Alf Yngve which was planned for release back in 1994 by Psytronik Software. Again, as with Project Argus, Psykozone was unreleased due to Psytronik … Continue reading
An early unofficial Mario game which was done in early 1983. At the moment , we do not know for sure if this game actually got released – but Jeremy Thorne’s other game – Mario’s Brewery was released in 1983, … Continue reading
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