Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 31
Another potential GTW which was highlighted by Peter Weighill and comes from an advert in the June 1983 issue of Commodore Computing International. The game was described as so: “Drive through the mine filled mazes collecting as many money bags … Continue reading
An educational game which might be out there, but has yet to be preserved. Or is it a title that never quite made it? Monkeybuilder has a 256 word set, designed to increase spelling and vocabulary skills into 17 different … Continue reading
Monster Maths was a title to be released on the Commodore 64 by a company called Shards in 1985, and was reviewed in Your Commodore Magazine issue 08, receiving a reasonable score overall. It seems that either the company went … Continue reading
1983 Spectrum Games Platform: Commodore Vic 20 Monster Muncher was a simple Pac Man clone due for release on the Commodore Vic 20 by Spectrum Games back in 1983, and was fully advertised too. The ZX Spectrum version was known … Continue reading
Thanks to Carlos Vazquez for highlighting this one. Monster Squad potentially is a title which was based on the 1987 movie. The question is whether the ACEUK company was a proper company, and if this was a proper quick cash … Continue reading
1985 Oliver Ridler Platform: Commodore VIC-20 If you consider that the Commodore 64 essentially put an end to the VIC-20’s commercial life perhaps a bit prematurely, there are likely many titles out there which never saw the light of day … Continue reading
Thanks to Boerge Noest for highlighting this rather obscure game which was mentioned and discussed in Norweigen magazine Mikrodata back in 1984. Apart from a discussion with the developers (In Norweigen at present, but here we go: Page 1, Page … Continue reading
An interesting new GTW entry this time from Silverbird, who advertised this game within inlays of other games and also on a magazine advert (where the screenshot comes from). It’s thanks to Richard Hewison from The Bird Sanctuary that this … Continue reading
Nothing much to our next entry I’m afraid. Mr. Pilic is a game from 2011 that seems to be a Manic Miner clone of sorts, but not currently playable (at least I wasn’t able to control anything). There’s a dog … Continue reading
A quick one for you, this time from a catalogue which advertised a Multipack of games which included: Nine Men Morris Cymon Gammon 64 There is a Nine Mens Morris game in Gamebase, but this has now been confirmed to … Continue reading
A quick entry for a title that has recently been recovered and released over at http://www.pagetable.com/?p=940 . This is a title that was written back in 1986 by Peter Hempel and written in German. It has been translated in 2018 … Continue reading
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