Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1864
The Legend Of Prince Valiant was to be a platform game based on the cartoon series shown on BBC television in the early 90’s. Ocean bought the licence and had planned to do conversions across a series of platforms. Commodore … Continue reading
1987 Codemasters Platform: Commodore 16/Plus 4 A very short entry for a Commodore 16/Plus 4 conversion of Pro Snooker Simulator that is currently missing. The question is, was it ever started? The game was released on the Commodore 64. Popular … Continue reading
A sequel to a fairly popular tennis game on the C64 was due according to the Amiga review in one of the popular magazines of the time. The review stated that "A C64 version may follow in several month’s time" … Continue reading
Will Wright, creator of Sim City and The Sims, started his career on the C64 with Raid on Bungeling Bay. (There is one theory that he got the idea for Sim City from creating the maps for RoBB.) According to … Continue reading
The source of this next entry is interesting as it was mentioned in "Illegal" pirate fanzine as something seen at PC 1988 show (or so it seems) by SSD of Cosmos. At present we know very little about the game … Continue reading
Very quick entry, but mentioned in a 1997 edition of Commodore Scene was that a company called Project 64 were working on 4 full price titles Unfortunately we no nothing about the games themselves, maybe you know more? Very very … Continue reading
Project Stealth Fighter was one of Microprose’s excellent simulators, this one being based around the American Stealth Fighter and the C64 version was a good conversion. A ZZAP feature on Microprose Software mentions various versions of their software including Pirates … Continue reading
Another quick entry … A news item in Commodore User back in 1988 mentioned that Origin Systems would be releasing a game called Prototank on the C64. However, nothing surfaced – and no evidence seems to exist of it on … Continue reading
Psionic was an intriguing title which was being developed by Robert Trevellyan, who later went on to work for Bitmap Bros and produce the likes of Speedball 2 on the Amiga. His first commercial venture was for this game at … Continue reading
Richard back in 2000 was working on a game project called Psycho Baby. Unfortunately due to a horrible disk error a lot of the game was lost and Richard decided not to go any further. The game was basically a … Continue reading
Psycho Glider FMB , and interestingly titled game which involved gliders!… Created by Pete Andrew for Lothlorien back in the late ’80s, the game was shaping up just fine until something bad happened. The game was part of a series … Continue reading
An early game featuring the early graphics of Martin Holland. This was mentioned breifly to me by Martin in an Interview, and it has been named a few times by other collegues of Martin’s… but this is it. From what … Continue reading
Psyclapse is one of the infamous Mega Game titles which Imagine Software were to release back in 1984. The series was to include around 6 games – with Psyclapse being the second title specifically being done on the C64 (Bandersnatch … Continue reading
PT-109 was based around the World War II patrol boat that John F. Kennedy served on. An article in Commodore Magazine (Dec 1988) had the following to say: “Spectrum HoloByte 6-1/128: PT-109, an amazing patrol boat simulation, is scheduled for … Continue reading
1994 Psygnosis Platform: SEGA Mega Drive Please note that this is just a quick placeholder post, where we have split up an old post which flagged up 3 entries. The original text that follows is from our old team member … Continue reading
1993 Ocean Software Platform: Commodore Amiga A second Addams Family game from Ocean Software that would be based on the cartoon series that had just been created. News of this development was reported very briefly in the news pages of … Continue reading
Yet another Martech game into the archives, and one which is surrounded in mystery!… Just what exactly was this game about? CVG had this to say about the game, along with some screenshots which you can find under “Scan shots” … Continue reading
First offered in Zzap issue 62 in their Zzuperstore as a special offer, Purple Saturn Day never quite made the light of day on the C64 for reasons still unknown today. Judging by the adverts published in CVG, the game … Continue reading
2008 BigBig Studios Platform: Sony PlayStation 2 Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice was released back in late 2007/early 2008 on the Sony PlayStation Portable to mixed reviews. However, also in production was a PS2 edition which would sadly never see the … Continue reading
1983 Synapse Software Platform: Commodore Vic-20 For our next entry, even though the game was fully advertised at the time. It seems to be completely missing, with nothing online about the title apart from being on missing lists. The game … Continue reading
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