Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1834
This was to be the original NightShift game, as it started out.. with a victorian toy-making machine. Lucasfilm later stepped in and had all the toys changed and the game changed to what was eventually released as “Nightshift”. It is … Continue reading
A short entry for an earlier edition of Ms. Pac Man that was being written for Atarisoft by Joe Alter. Thanks to Graeme Mason for the heads up. Joe was converting the game for ICOM Simulations, under contract with Atarisoft … Continue reading
1983 SEGA Platform: Atari 2600 (possibly VIC-20 and others too – unconfirmed) Team member Fabrizio Bartoloni recently brought to my attention a very intriguing title which SEGA announced as part of their first line up of games for various home … Continue reading
A quick one for you, this time from a catalogue which advertised a Multipack of games which included: * Nine Mens Morris * Cymon * Gammon 64. There is a Nine Mens Morris game in Gamebase, but we don’t know … Continue reading
Our next entry is for a very bizarre and ambitious title that was due for release back in the late 1980s by Activision. Written by Jennifer Diane Reitz and Stephen P. Lepisto. The game was to be released for C64 … Continue reading
Mumbles – Super Spy was another cool looking game from Databyte, and was advertised with their released game, Polar Pierre within all the popular magazines at the time. Just how the game would have played is anyone’s guess. As far … Continue reading
A quick entry to cover yet another title which we are not quite sure if it actually got a release, or if it only sneaked out in small numbers. Muncher was listed as a 100% machine code game making good … Continue reading
Probably one of the last major lost titles left to find on the Commodore 64 – Murder! by US Gold. Finished and reviewed in 1990, but never released by the Birmingham-based company. The bloody cheek of them! That is the strange thing … Continue reading
According a text source, Mutant was to be the next game released by Kris Hatlelid after Frantic Freddie. When Kris visted Lemon 64 once, he couldn’t remember any games that he worked on that were never released. It might be … Continue reading
A very quick entry for now thanks to Robin Gravel for his research work. We learn of a C64 version of this Spectrum and Amstrad game thanks to an inlay which lists C64 loading instructions and also credits for the … Continue reading
A short entry for a title flagged up in conversation with its developer Joe Alter. We are unsure what the game was, but found a magazine advert in US-based Creative Computing Magazine in 1985 which seems to be advertising it. … Continue reading
1993 Electronic Arts Platform: SEGA Mega Drive Mutant Speed Demons was to be yet another title the Mutant League series on the SEGA Mega Drive, following on from the likes of Mutant League Football and Mutant League Hockey and created … Continue reading
Yet another Titus title which was mentioned in a schedule list from 1990 for the C64 on Tape and Disk. The game did surface on the Amiga, under the Infogrammes label and wasn’t particularly well recieved. It was sort of … Continue reading
Myth was a huge game on the C64, which won many awards due to its style and class. System 3 announced that work would begin on a sequel, named ‘Dawn Of Steel’. The planned sequel would have had yet more … Continue reading
1998 System 3 Platform: Sony PlayStation, PC, Nintendo 64 and SEGA Saturn A fantastic game which I have very fond memories playing on my Commodore 64, Myth: History in the Making was due to be revived by System 3 for … Continue reading
Following on from the recent console cancellation of Myth covered on the site, team member Grzegorz Antosiewicz got in touch to highlight a series of changes to the Amiga/ST editions of Myth. What follows is based mostly on the text … Continue reading
Mythos was a title that was in production by Paul Clansey whilst at Imagine Software. The game was caught up in the crash of the company and was lost on the Sage system hard-drive when it was taken away by the … Continue reading
Advertised in many magazines, this was a title being sold by Anik Microsystems… however only two Anik games exist and seem to have been released on the C64. The advert describes the game as follows: "Manoeuvre your nuclear powered Sub … Continue reading
1995 Acclaim Platforms: Commodore Amiga 1200, CD32 Yet another late Amiga conversion, which sadly seems to have fallen by the wayside due to the dwindling market at the time. NBA Jam Tournament Edition was a particularly high profile title which … Continue reading
2006 Player One Limited Platform: Mobile J2ME A short entry for a Java Platform mobile conversion of a classic platformer title that many of us know and love. Nebulus (or Tower Toppler as known in other regions) was about to … Continue reading
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