Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1865
It has always been wondered what happened to the sequel to Olli and Lissa on the C64. Especially if you consider that the first game was released by Firebird, and the 3rd game was released by Codemasters. We learn that … Continue reading
Thanks to Jazzcat for the heads up about this game, which was shown recently on the developer’s website. We are not sure what the exact aim of the game was and why it was never finished – but we assume … Continue reading
1979 Larry Rosenthal Platform: Arcade As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are gradually adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus content to share with you. The book … Continue reading
Ooze was a horror based text adventure game which was released on the Amiga, PC and ST by German software house Dragonware back in 1989. It was also advertised for the C64 and was previewed in a German magazine called … Continue reading
Yet another Codemasters game to add to the pile – this time a conversion of an Oliver Twins game called Operation Gunship. This game was a top down multi-directional scroller – actually very similiar to Firehawk, which was later being … Continue reading
Quite possibly one of the strangest goings on behind a Ocean release, coming in the form of the rather bizarre release of Operation Thunderbolt. It all stems back to Zzap! 64, and issue 57 in particular. Zzap reviewed the game … Continue reading
An interesting looking title which looks a lot like Dicky’s Diamonds, but was a US based release that was going to be on cartridge back in early 1984. The game was reviewed by Electronic Fun with Computers and Games magazine, … Continue reading
Orbital Run was a particularly ambitious project which was planned and started back in 1991. Shaun Pearson and some other guys believed that there was no decent C64 car game out there, and so they decided to create their own. … Continue reading
We’ve been on a roll recently (thanks to Peter Weighill) with a number of large company collections of games which have seemingly never seen the light of day, or they are just very obscure. Our next set is from Orbyte … Continue reading
A new Melbourne House title (whilst under the Virgin Mastertronic ownership) was due on the C64 in the shape of Orel Hershiser’s Strike Zone, a pretty cool baseball game which seems to have only been due for release in the … Continue reading
Oriental Games could have possibly been one of the last Firebird games to see a release on the C64, but it was not to be. Mentioned in a news item in Games Machine issue 27, Oriental Games was an average … Continue reading
A very quick open and closed case. Alpha Omega’s Orpheus game of the same name was actually intended to be released back in 1984 by Sterling Software, but it seems the company may have collapsed before it got out. However, … Continue reading
1992 Mindscape Platform: Commodore Amiga Released on Super Nintendo and SEGA Mega Drive, Outlander was also once due for release on the Commodore Amiga too by Mindscape in 1992. The game is described by our very own Karl Kuras as … Continue reading
Outpost was to be a new game from a new software house called Frontier Games. The game was briefly mentioned in a news item by ACE magazine for issue 16 in 1989. The preview shows a screenshot, which could very … Continue reading
2006 Unknown Platform: Mobile J2ME A short entry for a Java Platform mobile de-make of Outrun 2006, a sequel to the classic SEGA game from 1986. In 2024, ex-Ocean Software artist Bill Harbison would provide Games That Weren’t with a … Continue reading
Many of you will own Outrun Europa on the C64, but not this first version created back in 1988/89. This version was under the name of Outrun Europe and not Europa. It was also a rather different game. Outrun Europe … Continue reading
1993 HeartBeat Corporation Platform: SEGA Mega Drive Outworld 2375 AD is a racing game that was in development for the SEGA Mega Drive in 1993 as a title for use with a Heartbeat Catalyst device (a body-mounted fitness sensor) that … Continue reading
Following on from the recent PC DOS release of an unreleased conversion of Team 17’s Overdrive thanks to Damiano Gerli, GTW’s Grzegorz Antosiewicz dug out a series of early screens from the game. Overall showing many differences and features not … Continue reading
2010 Connect2Media Platforms: Apple iOS and PC (Windows) This is a smaller piece intended for inclusion in The Games That Weren’t book that didn’t make the final cut. As a result, please note that it hasn’t been professionally proof read compared to … Continue reading
A very bizarre title which seems to have had more effort put into the game logo than the actual game itself. To say this is a game is stretching it quite far – as really its just a demo, with … Continue reading
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