Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1876
This entry originally began as a possible V1 hunt, but it has been confirmed that Finlay indeed programmed the version we all know (and love?). However, a recent conversation with Wayne Billingham showed that a Cartridge version was being produced. … Continue reading
1989 Ocean Software France Platforms: Commodore Amiga and Atari ST Adidas Golden Shoe is not to be confused with Adidas Championship Football, but then perhaps it should be? (see below). The team and the graphics are completely different for both games … Continue reading
1995 Mirage Technologies Platform: Amiga CD32, PC, Super Nintendo, SEGA Saturn and Sony Playstation Also known as Mayhem, and released eventually as Bedlam A short entry thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz of a cool isometric action game with a mix of … Continue reading
A short entry for a collection of games that are currently missing. Advertised in Compute! July 1983, the four games were to be: Head On – A daring and dangerous death race Alien Invasion – 4 players. Creatures descend. Atomic … Continue reading
A very quick entry, but in an article by Commodore Format and written by Gary Penn, it was mentioned that Gary Liddon had written a game called Advanced Soccer Simulator for Codemasters back in the day which was never released. … Continue reading
1991 Taito Platform: PC Engine Adventures of the MummyHead is a neat looking platformer that was due for release by Taito in 1991 for the PC Engine. By the looks of things, you were in control of a body with … Continue reading
A short entry for a title that was being created by the developers of Jack Attack – Kevin Kieller and John Traynor. This was a title for Commodore – an educational title to teach basic math concepts. Sadly Commodore were … Continue reading
Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. After the Fire was a graphic text adventure due for release from Channel 8 in September 1984. Although due for … Continue reading
1994 Bloodhouse / Housemarque Platform: Amiga CD32 and Amiga 1200 Thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz for the heads up regarding a title by the creators of Super Stardust. Aggression was to be a horizontally scrolling shooter with ray traced graphics and … Continue reading
A very short post to flag up some unused assets and early screens for the Psygnosis classic – Agony thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz. First of all there are a number of screens in the gallery below dug out by Grzegorz … Continue reading
Agrophobia was a text adventure game written by Mark Healey (who did graphics for Sleepwalker and the Fun School series). The game was created whilst at school, and Mark sold about 3-4 copies to friends. It was likely his very … Continue reading
It wasn’t too long ago when we did a short post on the unreleased Amiga edition of Empire’s CyberSpace. In the meantime, Amiga Games That Weren’t and Adrian Simpson were digging further already and were in touch with much of … Continue reading
A short entry for a Commodore MAX title that was proposed, but never finished and released. Air Battle would set you in air and space, pitting you against many different types of alien invaders. At each level, the player would … Continue reading
A very short entry unfortunately for a title which we should have added a long time ago. Aircat was a game to be developed by Canvas Software for an unknown publisher at the time. We believe it was some kind … Continue reading
A rather interesting story with another game which had an earlier version … but one which was infinately better it seems than what was eventually released. Airwolf 2 was released on the Hitpak collection as the final game was awful. … Continue reading
Before Elite got the licence for Airwolf, Ocean Software actually started producing the home computer conversions. Although it was advertised for the Spectrum in the scan, it was infact also planned for the C64 until Elite Software won a legal … Continue reading
Often there were titles that had completely different US releases, such as Bionic Commando and Afterburner. Some were just NTSC fixed versions of the UK releases, such as Salamander. Ajax (or A-Jax) was another title planned for release by Konami … Continue reading
ALA Software were an obscure company from the US who defined their games as “Games with Guts”. They were part of a mother company called ALA Enterprises (which was a record label). All software was written by General Masters Corporation. … Continue reading
A very quick entry which was brought to our attention via a tune in Gilles Soulet’s HVSC folder. Albedo was a game released by a company called Myriad, and saw release on 16-bit platforms including the Amiga. The existence of … Continue reading
Albyon was a game promising to be what Ultima was and a whole lot more. In an issue of ASM 12/88 (As highlighted to GTW by Zeldin), there was an article about the game’s creators (The authors of “Die Fugger“), … Continue reading
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