Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1865
1983 HES Platform: Commodore VIC-20 A short entry for yet another Commodore Vic-20 title that was reported on the Vic-20 Cartridge Rarity list and may well be unreleased, or otherwise saw a very limited release. Fort Apocalypse was a popular … Continue reading
Fortress America was part of the Wargamers series by PSS and was advertised in their catalogues, but the C64 version has never surfaced by the looks of things and no other version seems to have either. The game was rumoured … Continue reading
1985 Aardvark Software Platform: Amstrad CPC A short entry which is thanks to @nivrig and @ChinnyVision for posting on Twitter a few days ago. Amstrad Computer User in June 1985 had posted a short news item regarding an Amstrad CPC … Continue reading
1991 Nick Pelling Platform: Commodore Amiga Frak! is an absolute classic on the BBC Micro, starring caveman Trogg as you navigated across various trecharous levels with your trusty yo-yo. It is no surprise then to learn that there had been … Continue reading
2006 Namco Platform: Microsoft Xbox 360 Frame City Killer was announced back in May 2005 as a next-generation action adventure game for the Xbox 360, utilizing the new upcoming Unreal 3 engine and consisting of immersive and non-linear gameplay. The … Continue reading
I recently picked up some Sinclair User magazines at a market stall, and whilst browsing through I had a look at the Frankie Goes To Hollywood advert on the back. Nothing unusual you might say, as it was pretty much … Continue reading
1995-2003 Mirage Media / World Software / Horn Platforms: Commodore Amiga 1200/CD32, PC and Game Boy Advance It may have been a basic fighting game with simple graphics, but Franko: The Crazy Revenge did pretty well in the Polish games … Continue reading
Freddy Fish is an arcade game from 1983 that was released for PC in the US by Mirror Images Software. The game it seems was due to have a Commodore 64 conversion, but was cancelled before it could be complete. … Continue reading
1991 U.S. Gold Platform: Commodore Amiga A short entry for now on what was to be an Amiga conversion of a DOS title from back in 1991 from Cineplay Interactive. Set on Earth, where robots are now in control and … Continue reading
According to Commodore Computing International in December 1988, Active Distribution LTD had made a marketing deal with French company Coktel Vision. The first game to be released was Jungle Book. Freedom was a graphic adventure game which saw release on … Continue reading
Another SEUCK title, from a different face this time called Ian Brown. Related to this game is Marc Walters who did the great Cronic The Badger game which resides in GTW. Frontier promised some of the best graphics and gameplay … Continue reading
A Rambo rip off which was found out about thanks to Jax, who started off at Zeppelin games as a young developer. CPCGames reviews (http://www.cpcgamereviews.com) describes the game as follows: "A squad of troops has been sent to infiltrate enemy … Continue reading
Fruit Fight is an interesting entry which was to be an unofficial arcade conversion of Dingo (Ultimate Arcade) The game was quite a good copy according to Stephen Kellett (the game’s coder). The game was written for Gannon Designs who … Continue reading
An educational game from Fisher Price this time, and one of a few titles which never got shipped by Roger Pedersen. We aren’t sure yet if he had any development time on the C64 version, or the Apple. Most of … Continue reading
1993 Images Software Platform: Commodore Amiga (+ potentially others later on) Also known as: Monkey Business It was recently that team member Grzegorz Antosiewicz highlighted an abandoned Amiga game which had completely passed me by last year when artist Glenn … Continue reading
Probably one of the strangest GTW titles i’ve had to enter – but this is no joke, but an actual game which we are trying to recover and may well have been released. It’s just missing, and has been highlighted … Continue reading
A very quick entry which was highlighted by Romppainen. Fusion was an average shooter produced by Bullfrog for Electronic Arts on the Amiga back in 1988. Nothing unusual there, but Romppainen highlights that the game was listed as being released … Continue reading
Here’s an interesting GTW, this time mentioned from its coder Craig Kelsall. Future Bike Simulator was being developed for Alternative Software back in 1988. It’s main mention in the press was in Crash issue 51 which depicted a top down … Continue reading
In the same era as the lost release of Pyramid of Time, Firebird were also to release another Activision game on their Silverbird label… Zzap first mentioned news of the game in issue 26… “Hot on the heels of the … Continue reading
It was thought that this possibly may have been released as Combat Crazy, due to the fact that the game has a tune in it mean’t for G.I. Hero, and also G.I. Hero and Combat Crazy sound like two similar … Continue reading
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