Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 100
An interesting Synapse Software entry now with Picnic Paranoia, which was due for release on Atari 400/800, TRS-80, Apple II and Commodore 64 platforms. The game has you controlling George on a single screen, who has to keep ants and … Continue reading
Part of an educational series, Picture Parts is one of around 6 which is sadly missing and one which may have been released, but is very possible that it didn’t quite make it out. We’re not 100% sure what happened … Continue reading
Pieces 2 was a sequel to a late 90’s puzzler which can be found at Gamebase at http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=5688&d=18&h=0 . Apparently the original game was released too early and by someone else, but we need confirmation on this. Pawel Bol was … Continue reading
Pigs on Marse was an interesting looking RPG which was advertised back in Ahoy! in March 1985. The game was highlighted to us thanks to Matthew Goode who got in touch and supplied a scan of the advert from the … Continue reading
Pimania was an adventure game released very early on back in 1982/83. If you managed to crack the game and interpret the clues correctly – you could work out the time, date and place where someone will be waiting to … Continue reading
Early days, but it seems that Empire Software were considering a sequel very early on to Pipe Mania, so much so that a design document was produced with all the details by The Assembly Line back in 1991. A massive … Continue reading
A cheat entry for now, as its possible that all 4 of the games were actually released – so this is more of a call to try and find these games and get them digitally preserved and available. Piper Software … Continue reading
Piracy was a game being written by a guy called Sean Huxter on the C128 in Commodore BASIC 7, but originally existed as a C64 game which can be found in gamebase. The game was to be a text adventure, … Continue reading
A short entry for a Commodore MAX title that was proposed, but never finished and released. Pirate Attack (a working title) would have you trying to destroy an attacking pirate ship before it destroys you. The game would start with … Continue reading
Another GTW entry for Kele Line games, for more on their background check out the entry for Force of the Vulcan. Pirates of the Ocean was one of four games slated for release by Kele Line in 1987, alongside Force … Continue reading
Pirates was an excellent game written by the brilliant Sid Meier, who with ‘Major’ Bill Stead founded Microprose. This was a popular hit on all machines and has recently resurfaced as a major new PC game, again written by Sid … Continue reading
A short entry for a title that may or may not have had a C64 release under way. Pixie and Dixie was based on the Hanna Barbera cartoon and was to be a late 8-bit release it seems. The game … Continue reading
Pizza Time was to be a Intellivision game conversion to the C64 by the Mattel Electronics France offices. It was scheduled, but apparently never worked on, though it was given an id of #7858 on diskette. The game was a … Continue reading
An interesting entry which ties in quite nicely with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes by the same company. Plan 9 from Outer Space was to be based on one of those old really cheesy sci-fi movies which came out in … Continue reading
A short entry for a Mastertronic title that never was called Planet 10 – a late title that was due for release back in 1989. It is thanks to a great article by Simon Plumbe about the game on the … Continue reading
Our next entry is a title which was meant for release way back in 1983 in the US. Planet Quarx was mentioned in a magazine called Microcomputing with the following details: “Planet Quarx is a three-stage video game for the … Continue reading
Plasmatak was originally being developed in collaboration with Thalamus by Steve Collins (Herobotix fame), who actually almost finished this game, but sadly interest was lost, and Steve went to work at Pizzaland for the summer. The game had a Paradroid … Continue reading
Platoon was a superb movie tie-in game from Ocean Software back in 1988 with some excellent varied levels that captured the essence of the movie. Thanks to contributor Martin Inter, here are some slightly earlier Commodore 64 screens which show … Continue reading
1982 Epyx Platform: Commodore Vic 20 A short entry until we can confirm that there was indeed a Commodore VIC-20 conversion. PlatterMania was a plate spinning action game that was released by Epyx on the Atari 400/800 in 1982, some … Continue reading
Yet another educational set of titles which are at large it seems, and highlighted thanks to Sean O’Neill. Ironically, it is within a Zzap educational article back in 1992 alongside the Fun School series where our next set of titles … Continue reading
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