Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 102
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
This game was released on the Amiga in 1990 and was reviewed in Zzap May 1990. The game was essentially a managerial version of Kick Off, with the Kick Off engine used for the arcade game. At the end of … Continue reading
A quick entry for a title which may have been released, but doesn’t seem to have been preserved just yet. The Maths Tutor game in the series by Screenplay was released in 1984, along with a number of other titles. … Continue reading
This may well be a red herring, but ACE magazine’s review of the Spectrum game by Mastertronic suggests that a C64 conversion may have been considered. We’ll keep things short for now until we get further confirmation, but you can … Continue reading
Plum Duff was a Christmas game being produced by Jason C Brooke, before he fully broke into pure music development. It was 1985, and after producing an unreleased music tool for Melbourne House in 1984 – he produced the Plum … Continue reading
Very quick entry, but mentioned in a 1997 edition of Commodore Scene was a new Poker game being worked on by Ewen Gillies. At present there is a Solitare game in GB64, but not a Poker game. Does this one … Continue reading
Police Quest was the first of a trilogy written by former officer Jim Walls. It centered on you controlling Officer Sonny Bonds who had to solve various murders and drug cases. This was a favourite on the Amiga and it … Continue reading
A very short entry for a title which may well be out in the wild somewhere. Pontoon was as you’d expect, a computerised version of the popular card game that can be played with one or two players. The game … Continue reading
An interesting entry, which was a Game Creator game produced by Andrew Boosey of Hayes, Middlesex. This seems to have been for a competition of somekind to prove that good games could be produced using Games Creator. The competition it … Continue reading
This isn’t actually the title of the game…. but the title at the time wasn’t decided when Beyond Belief were given an introduction to the pages of Commodore Force. They had promise of many titles (Many with titles which sounded … Continue reading
Another title highlighted by Peter Weighill which seems to be long lost on the C64, with Pop Quiz 85. A title created by Independent Software and sold via mail order between late 1984 and early 1985. The game was advertised … Continue reading
I can’t believe that in 2020, we didn’t have this game in the archives! I’ve known about it for years and assumed it was already there when I kept seeing the game listed in Commodore Format’s early warning scanner. When … Continue reading
Prehistorik is a platforming game from Titus which is a sort of Caveman Ninja/Chuck Rock clone of sorts that did fairly well on the Amiga platform. In the German magazine "ASM", issue 7/91, there was a double page advert for … Continue reading
An interesting title brought to my attention from a reader of Atariage.com, Avram Dumitrescu. This is a kind of frogger clone which was developed for Adventure International by a guy called Russ Wetmore. A review of the released Atari game … Continue reading
A short entry for a game that was advertised in the US press as a mail order only title. The game was described in the advert as being a scripture treasure hunt game, based on biblical principles. 255 rooms to … Continue reading
Priceless scrolls was being sold as a "A Scripture Treasure Hunt Game Based on Biblical Principles" in a 1992 issue of RUN magazine from the US. The game was sold on disk, but it seems that this is one that … Continue reading
Designed by another best-selling science fiction author, Walter Jon Williams, Pride and Prejudice was billed as a game of 19th century romance and today is possibly the most sought after game from the Berserker Works stable. Apparently it was released, … Continue reading
A game which has been known about for some years, but only really for its music by Drax. The music has been used in various places over the years, and has been ever present in HVSC almost since the beginning. … Continue reading
Confirmed – finally! …. but Domark were indeed working on a C64 conversion of Prince of Persia. Who confirmed it?… Chris West. Who is now hoping to recover a copy to show to the world and said the following on … Continue reading
It is true that Prince Of Persia was to have an official conversion onto the C64 by none other than E&E, the creators of Lemmings on the C64. Although quite late into the C64’s life, Prince Of Persia was to … Continue reading
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