Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1876
Another brief entry for an Arcade conversion which never was. Combatribes was a kind of Double Dragon beat-em-up by Technos which we think was being converted by Storm. It did make a transition onto the SNES, but sadly not the … Continue reading
A very short entry for a potential conversion of a popular Amiga game by Microstyle. USER magazine back in October 1990 had listed the C64 version as being one of the available formats, so was this true at all? We’ve … Continue reading
A very short entry for a game that eventually saw release, but actually was meant to be a fully licensed game. If you ever played Novogen’s Battle Island, then you may have noticed that the sprites look rather much like … Continue reading
A very short entry, for a controversial title. Commando Libya had a simple aim of just gunning people down as they went across the screen. It caused a bit of an outcry on the C64 scene in 1986 as a … Continue reading
A very short entry thanks to an anonymous contributor, who has flagged up that the Elite release of Commando should have included Level 3, which was cut from the final game. The final game only contained levels 1,2 and 4 … Continue reading
1990 Titus Software Platform: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC Commando War was to be a very ambitious title from Titus Software back in 1990, a sort of cross between Populous and Cannon Fodder. But what was particularly ambitious was … Continue reading
A very short entry for now regarding a game which was produced by Karl Hörnell during his Players Software development days. The game was called Commodore Juicer, and would be a Super Pipeline clone, but instead of oil – there … Continue reading
2006 Relic Entertainment Platform: Mobile J2ME A short entry for a Java Platform mobile conversion of a classic real-time strategy game that many of us have lost hours to over the years – including myself on PC over multiplayer. It … Continue reading
Mentioned in TGM March 1989 Complex was to be a new Palace Software game on the C64 in 1989, and was mentioned in the March issue of The Games Machine. They described the game as follows: “And for future-shock fans, … Continue reading
A short entry for a recent recovery from the archives of Paul Allen Newell, where researchers unearthed a lost storybook game that was being created by Centipede creator Dona Bailey and Paul for Activision. More details can be read about … Continue reading
A short entry which is thanks to gaming Kate Willaert of a Concentration game that was being created by Jimmy Snyder during the early Commodore 64 launch days. According to Jimmy, Jack Tramiel liked the game, but told him to … Continue reading
Originally believed to be a separate game, this is infact a compilation of released games. Therefore this entry will be deleted in the near future. Case closed!
Originally believed to be a separate game, this is infact a compilation of released games. Therefore this entry will be deleted in the near future. Case closed!
1985 Incentive Software Platform: Dragon 32 This is a short entry to extend our Dragon 32 entries into the Games That Weren’t archive, with what was to be a conversion of the popular C64 game – Confuzion. The conversion was … Continue reading
Conquest was a game being written by a guy called Sean Huxter on the C128 in Commodore BASIC 7. The game was to be a turn-space combat game, and according to Sean – was actually written. It is yet to … Continue reading
1991-1992 System 3 Platforms: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC Many of you will be aware of Constructor, the classic construction yard game developed by System 3 and released by Acclaim in 1997. Released on PC, and then later PlayStation … Continue reading
1995 The Hidden Platform: Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 Our next entry into the archives is an unreleased platform game called Construxion, which was being developed by a team called The Hidden back in 1995. Some sources suggest it was … Continue reading
This summary of yet another lost Amiga conversion comes from contributor, Termie Gen, who talks about the unreleased Gryzor and Contra conversions for the Amiga. CONTRA: Developed between 1987 and 1988, but never released it seems. Screenshots of an Amiga … Continue reading
A big game on the 16bits at the time… where you control the spot from 7-up, moving along the beach, collecting red spots and shooting crabs… It was a fun little platform game. A C64 version was being planned out … Continue reading
Another game, and another title which seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. Cop Out was one of the last games to be released by Mikro-Gen, with the advert showing the last incarnation of the logo. The … Continue reading
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