Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1834
A very famous game worldwide, featuring up to 4 players who go around and simply bomb each other. Even almost banned by some countries, including Ireland who condemned the idea after saying that kids could be encouraged to blow each … Continue reading
A combined entry once more to pull together a list of titles which are currently missing and haven’t been digitally preserved. With thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog for flagging up. These come mostly from a Dynacomp 1987 catalog at … Continue reading
Originally mentioned in CVG as a new game being produced on the Spectrum and C64, Dr Blitzen and the Islands of Arcanum was on its way. This is better known as Dynamite Dan II, and was eventually released on the … Continue reading
1985 Cable Software Platform: Dragon 32 Our next Dragon 32 entry into the archives was a strange sounding game where you must encounter nine different screens of action with revolving doors and a mad woman called Edna. Welcome to ‘Eager … Continue reading
A very quick entry for a title we know very little about. Eagle Storm was a title listed in the Screen Test Budgets section of ACE magazine (Issue 20, May 1989 – Page 66) as coming soon. The game however … Continue reading
Thanks to Andrew Braybrook, rare prototype Paradroid screens on the Commodore 64 (including early unused “fishbone” designs) were preserved for the excellent Graftgold book by Retro Fusion Books. Many didn’t make it inside, but thanks to Ste Day, here is … Continue reading
Platforms: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft XBOX 360, PC and Mac Released eventually in 2013 as The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, the game was a long and troubled development overall, having started way back in 2006. GTW staff member Ross Sillifant dug … Continue reading
A few quick early screens that have been spotted by Martin Inter recently, in particular for the C64 conversions of Robocop, Predator and R-Type in Zzap Italia. Predator and R-Type are quite small oddities, but for Robocop, in the Zzap … Continue reading
With many thanks to Martin Inter, a number of early screens from actual released C64 games such as G-Loc, Dragon Ninja, Batman The Caped Crusader and Hammerfist have been added to this page. These show different sprites (in the case … Continue reading
Not sure how we managed to miss this one, but at some point there were plans for a Commodore 64 game based on the UK soap EastEnders, to be published by Macsen Software around 1987 time. The game eventually saw … Continue reading
2001 Hyperion Software Platform: AmigaOne There were big plans with the AmigaOne, and yet another title that would be planned for it was a conversion of Echelon: The Storm. A game that was being developed by Buka Entertainment that year … Continue reading
A quick entry for a game we know very little about, apart from a few mentions in various demos that was produced by Hookie/Cosine. The demos were Mega Muzak and Bouncing Kerzonkas, and the game was discussed by Hookie within … Continue reading
Another combined entry for a series of titles from Educational Activities, Inc., which may or may not have been released. At present the following titles are missing: ABC-123 – Activities for Learning Adventures of Dobot, The Algebraic Expressions Annam – … Continue reading
More arcade conversion action from Elite in the form of Edward Randy, a interesting arcade game with a character inspired by Indiana Jones. The game featured levels such as part where Edward Randy is on a wing walking on a … Continue reading
An Italian title which may have been released, but is currently missing and yet to be preserved. Can you help us and ready64.org to recover it? El Moringe was an intriguing arcade title, which seemed to have a series of … Continue reading
1982 Commodore Platform: Commodore Vic 20 A short entry for a title that we are not 100% certain at this stage was ever started, but has featured for years on the Ward Shrake Vapourware list. The list contains a number … 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 described in an issue of Commodore Tribune, … Continue reading
As well as the dire Quicksilva version of the arcade classic, it seems that we were due to be given another version by American firm, Datasoft. Sam Poole, the president of Datasoft, spoke to Zzap 64 in issue 13 about … Continue reading
Elite 2 was released for the Amiga, ST and PC back in 1993 as Frontier: Elite 2 – but what may surprise you is that a C64 and BBC version was also in the works too by David Braben and … Continue reading
1995 Psygnosis Platforms: PC and Sony PlayStation Elric: The Almon’s Mission was an RPG title being developed by Psygnosis way back in 1995, based on the character by Michael Moorcock. The game was intended for release on both PC CD … Continue reading
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