Games That Weren't^®

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 →

Puzzle Mania is a very early development by Karl Hörnell in 1984, way before his Player Software days. The game is a simple puzzle shuffle game and was created in BASIC. The title was found and preserved by Hedning and … Continue reading →

“A thrilling new adventure” proclaims the advert for QA! This text adventure was made available to the public at a very cheap price of £2.99, where you must go on a daring expedition to find the Mask of QA, the … Continue reading →

Our next game comes in the shape of a simple Uridium clone that was developed at Clockwize back in 1989, and according to the hidden messages in the code – was developed in only 2-5 days – and over the … Continue reading →

Yet another Clockwize title which has been saved from obscurity thanks to Dean Hickingbottom for passing on what is likely the only remaining copy of the game. This was a title due for release in 1990, and was coded by … Continue reading →

Quark was due to be released by PSS (Personal Software Services) but for some reason it doesn’t seem to have ever been released. Usually in these incidences you can look at the release list for a company and see that … Continue reading →

A short entry for a Quiz game that has been recovered by Csaba Virag, and what seems to be an Italian quiz game that was potentially released in 1988 by Di. Erre E. Futura and written by Ugo Trapanese. The … Continue reading →

Nope, you’re swanking brand new widescreen colour TV hasn’t gone up the creak… just our next preview has gone a little greyscale… hurrah for the final band of b/w tv owners out there! Luckily, the game is nothing to do … Continue reading →

EDIT – Developer eventually completed game and it can now be found at csdb.dk/release/?id=166946 I loved the original Rent-a-cop game when it was released in the 2012 RGCD games competition. It was a brilliant tribute to Activision’s Keystone Capers game … Continue reading →

Hold on a sec… this looks a little familiar… Take Player’s"Turbo Kart Racer", jazz up the graphics and change the karts to motorbikes, and you get "Retro Torque". This little update by Paul Black was done especially for Commodore Force … Continue reading →

Advertised in Home Computer Weekly issue 104, Rhyme Land was to be an educational game where children can develop their skills of logic and deduction, improve their reading and spelling, and at the same time have tremendous fun. There were … Continue reading →

Our next entry was flagged up by Gamebase64, as we’re not actually sure if the game ever saw a full release or not. Maybe you can help us? The game has been within the digital archives since its supposed release … Continue reading →

A strange entry now into the GTW64 archives, which is thanks to JazzGhostrider for highlighting on the Lemon64 forums, and then getting in touch with GTW64 to see if we knew anything. Roadwars was a conversion of a game that … Continue reading →