Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1864
Advertised in many magazines, this was a title being sold by Anik Microsystems… however only two Anik games exist and seem to have been released on the C64. The advert describes the game as follows: "Control the atomic reaction in … Continue reading
Although released in 1987, the game it seems was originally due for release from Kele Line directly before Durell published it. Thanks to ‘Anonymous’ for flagging up. SOFT magazine in 1986 showed a very odd loading screen, with the title … Continue reading
This was a Double Dragon style game, where you had to go on a frenzy with a chainsaw and cut up as many people as possible. Chainsaw Warrior was based on the solo roleplay board game of the same name … Continue reading
A short entry for a title that was mentioned in a loading screen for Nato Commander by Microprose back in 1984. We believe that Challenger was a space shuttle game of some kind, but little else is known at this … Continue reading
A short entry for what could have been actually released, but under a different name. Champions was a football management game that was advertised by Peaksoft in 1984. However the C64 edition of the game never made it out, only … Continue reading
1992 Konami / Hero Software Platform: PC (DOS), Amiga and Apple Mac Champions was a RPG table-top title created by Hero Games originally back in 1981. Setting you within a superhero/comic book themed world, it won a legion of fans, … Continue reading
This game has actually been released on the CULT label and can be downloaded at … http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=17406 Please get in touch if you are the person who submitted the info. Case closed, and soon to be removed in the future.
A game which has been puzzling Stadium 64 for some years now, and we’ve been asked to put an entry on the site in the hope of solving this long mystery. It has a game which has been searched … Continue reading
Thanks to contributor Obi-Wandi, here is an early look at Championship Wrestling on the C64. This early screenshot was found by Obi-Wandi whilst looking through issues of Happy Computer magazine. Here are some details from Obi-Wandi… “As you can see, … Continue reading
1985 Channel 8 Software Platform: Dragon 32 This is a short entry to extend our Dragon 32 entries into the Games That Weren’t archive, though for three titles which were announced, but there is no evidence at this stage that … Continue reading
Chariot Race was a superb game which came out towards the end of the Vic 20’s short life around 1984 time and was written by Paul Hope who distributed the game from his living room with the help of his … Continue reading
Bomico was a German software distributor, mainly for computer games. They had their own development department, later on turned into another company called Sunflowers. Sunflowers prospered considerably, releasing bestsellers like 1402 later on. One of their Amiga and PC developments … Continue reading
Reading through some old Zzap’s when I spotted this intro screen from the preview of Chase HQ 2 on the C64. This screen apparently was meant for the intro sequence (accurately ported from the arcade), but looks like it was … Continue reading
This is a very short stub entry for a game called Chase on Wheels, which was a concept for a Commodore 64 game that was highlighted on Viktor T. Toth’s website. We know very little at this stage apart from … Continue reading
A quick entry for a graphical text adventure that was due out by Rhiannon Software, where they were intending to put out an entire series of games with different themes by creators Elisabeth Stott and Lucy Ewell. Two titles which … Continue reading
Yet another missing game, this time in the form of science software called Chemistry Tutorial, which would go through all the physical properties of the 106 known elements and had a complete periodic table display. The program was distributed on … Continue reading
Long before Chris Abbott was busy creating some of the biggest C64 music events in history with stars such as Ben Daglish, Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, David Whittaker and many many other big names – Chris was busy trying to … Continue reading
1995 Black Legend Platform: PC, Amiga 1200 and CD32 Chess Through The Ages is an unreleased chess game for Commodore Amiga 1200 and CD32 (possibly even PC – see further on). First kicked off in development around 1993 and eventually … Continue reading
1984 JCE Platform: Commodore VIC-20 After the recent amazing recovery of Garden Wars on the Commodore 64, our attention now turns to the lost VIC-20 edition of Chess Wars by the same company JCE, which was found in the same … Continue reading
Mentioned in issue June 1986 of Commodore User, this was a game mentioned as coming soon along with 3 Days in Carpathia. It was described as a Mafia scenario featuring Rats Maldano and the Morona Brothers and would have been … Continue reading
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