Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1878
1990 Taito Platform: Arcade, Taito WOWOW What has always been fascinating is how Parasol Stars never seemingly saw a proper release in arcades, and was only released on consoles and home computer platforms (the story of the C64 edition is … Continue reading
Thanks to Jazzcat for the heads up about this game, which was shown recently on the developer’s website. The game was a computer based board game, which included a level editor. The game could be played with up to four … Continue reading
Our next entry is for a title from the creators of Mindfighter by Activision, developed by Abstract Concepts and mentioned within the manual. We assume therefore that Activision were set to release the game around 1989 time. Little is known … Continue reading
1989 Activision / Abstract Concepts Platforms: ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 (see linked page) Our next entry is for a title from the creators of Mindfighter by Activision, developed by Abstract Concepts and mentioned within the manual. We assume therefore that … Continue reading
This is a short entry highlighted to us by Vinny Mainolfi, who spotted a news item talking about the new Parky the Penguin game. The same news item talks about a sequel which was due out not long afterwards, featuring … Continue reading
Peace was a war based simulation game being produced in Italy back in 1984. It was flagged up to us by Fabrizio Bartoloni after a YouTube clip from an 1984 TV show Orecchiocchio was uploaded with a clip from the … Continue reading
Pegasus had its beginnings in the basement of a kebab shop in Gravesend in Kent, where Chris Neary, who had done the graphics for The Evil Dead in 1983, along with Duncan Rigden and Stuart Brown, got together to make … Continue reading
Pegasus and the Trials of Perseus was yet another early C64 game that got some heavy advertising, but never seemed to quite make it for reasons unknown yet. There were various adverts in magazines at the time, and even a … Continue reading
A very quick entry for a title we know very little about at present, but was advertised in Personal Computer Games 1984 (Issue 8) by Visions Software. Pengi was advertised by Visions for the C64 and BBC Micro – though … Continue reading
Pengwyn has all the indications that its a poor man’s Pengo clone, and the C64 certainly had plenty of these :) Postern was to jump on the bandwagon with their own clone, and the game was mentioned in various adverts. … Continue reading
Very short entry for a currently unpreserved and missing Stack Light Rifle game which was written by Frank Barchard. An auction came up for the light gun in recent years and was spotted by Martin/Stadium 64. Most of the games … Continue reading
Gremlin Graphics were very popular on the C64 in the 80’s, and another title on the way was a intrigingly named “Pentacle”. This game was in the style of Knight Lore, and was being developed by Richard Underhill (ex-Arc Developments) … Continue reading
People from Sirius was to be an arcade adventure game released by U.S. Gold back in 1987, after Mauro Spagnolo submitted a title to John Holder of Leader Distribuzioni. The game would eventually see release via Your Sinclair magazine as … Continue reading
A short entry for another Prisma educational title which was completed, but never released for some reason. The game did see release on the Amiga in 1991. All we know is that the developer was someone called “Simon”, and they … Continue reading
Pet Person was the original incarnation of Little Computer People, before it was brought by Activision as a concept, and re-designed/developed by David Crane into the game we all know and love. The original concept was fairly similar to the … 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. Peter Pan was to be a future release and was … Continue reading
1984 Roklan / Walt Disney / Atari Platform: Atari 400/800 Our next title was confusingly referred to under a number of different titles, including Captain Hook’s Revenge and Peter Pan’s Daring Journey. In a CES 1983 show, it was reported … Continue reading
1998 Krisalis / Psygnosis / Eidos Platform: PC Contributor Niklas Lindholm has been trying to solve a mystery about a football management game that would just disappear completely without a trace. Krisalis had already previously had released a title called … Continue reading
Dinamic had struck gold with Imagine when they began having their games published on their label. Classics such as Army Moves, and the not so classic Game Over (although the music rocked!).. and also this strange little effort which got … Continue reading
Phantom – The Mission Remive was a remix of a SEUCK game called Phantom – The Mission that was created by Alex Aris and David Axtell back in 1988 on Commodore Disk User magazine. It was a pretty neat shooter … Continue reading
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