Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1864
Thanks to Vinny Mainolfi for highlighting details of this lost sequel which was being proposed by Shahid Ahmad back in 1986. Just before starting work on Pandora in 1986 for Firebird, Shahid and discussed the idea with his friend David … Continue reading
A recent article on Interceptor Software in Retro Gamer magazine (April 2013) states that there was another version of China Miner that should have been released. It was the very same game by Ian Gray, but also had the inclusion … Continue reading
1992 Millennium Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga Our next entry is for an arcade action adventure game set in the East, where you must guide Chinto through a castle full of traps and evil guards to avenge his parents’ … Continue reading
A very small entry for now unfortunately, and a well overdue entry too! Back in 2000, GTW64 was in regular conversation with the late Martin Holland – who mentioned working on a game at MC Lothlorien called Choc-a-Bloc Charlie … … Continue reading
1994 Team 17 Platforms: Amiga 1200 and CD32 Our next entry is a slightly obscure fighting game that was due for release on the Amiga 1200 and CD32. The game was set to be published by Team 17. Oddly, the … Continue reading
1994 Origin Platforms: PC and 3DO Also known as: Chopper Assault In a winter CES feature in a 1994 issue of Power Play, a new game by Origin was reported as being in development. Chopper Attack was being developed by … Continue reading
One of a series of games from A.R.Software which sadly don’t seem to have seen the light of day for reasons we are yet to discover. One theory is of course the company went bust – but is that the … Continue reading
A very short entry for now regarding a game which was produced by a young Karl Hörnell when he was around 14. The game was Chopperman and was a clone of Chopper Command from the Atari VCS, done at a … Continue reading
Very little is known about our next entry, apart from a brief mention in a scheduled music list from Maniacs of Noise. Chops by BWB – with BWB being Boys Without Brains. It is unknown exactly what the game is … Continue reading
Another title from the obscure "Little Softie" software house back in 1983, and another which seems to have gone missing from time. The adverts in Personal Computer Gamer detail the game as follows: "A programme for the young child with … Continue reading
Many of you will remember the original Chuck Rock and its brilliant rock band title screen from the early 90’s. Although the game itself was nothing massively special, it revokes a lot of fun and happy memories for many of … Continue reading
1992 Core Design Platform: Atari ST I loved Chuck Rock on the Amiga, and even the C64 edition that was pretty impressive at the time. It comes when a sequel was created and released on a number of platforms including … Continue reading
1993 Fission Software Platform: Commodore Amiga Chuck’s World by Fission Software was an unreleased Amiga platform game that was based on various animations about a character named Chuck, created by Steve Packer and released in Public Domain. The main character … Continue reading
A short entry for a title that was briefly advertised in Commodore Format, and in particular issue 22 back in June/July 1992. There were no details apart from listing the game as available for £4.00 on tape, and £8.50 on … Continue reading
Not to be confused with the game of the same name by Firebird in 1984, Circus Circus was to be a new game from Martech in 1989 on the Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad platforms. The game would feature a series … Continue reading
A quick entry which has been highlighted by Paul Fogarty – a C64 conversion of the 1985 arcade game by Jaleco. Paul recalls seeing an advert in a magazine around 1987/88 time (Commodore User or Disk User), and apparently very … Continue reading
An unconfirmed GTW for the C64 comes in the form of City Warriors. An advert was shown in the "Complete C64 Guide" on page 39, which makes us assume that a C64 version was in production. A lot more research … Continue reading
Not to be confused with the game City Fighter by Mastertronic, this was a simple arcade action game that was due for release on ZX Spectrum and C64 back in 1984 from Choice Software. Sadly only the ZX Spectrum version … Continue reading
A short entry for a title that was due out by the demo crew turned game development team – Ambush. More details on them can be found at https://csdb.dk/group/?id=768 The game was an unofficial conversion of the PC game of … Continue reading
CJ is probably one of the biggest games to come out of Codemasters apart from Dizzy back in the day. Originally created by the hugely talented Genesis team, the game spawned a sequel and then promise of this 3rd (and … Continue reading
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