Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 208
More from Mastertronic, this time from Binary Design who did a number of titles for the budget label. Speedboat Assassin was being worked on by Paul Gill and Haydn Dalton. Hayden was doing the graphics, with Paul Gill on the … Continue reading
1991 Codemasters Platform: ZX Spectrum 128k Also known as Diz564, our next entry isn’t technically an ‘unreleased game’ – but an ‘unreleased cut down version of a released game’. Spellbound Dizzy was one of Dizzy’s last adventures on the ZX … Continue reading
There is a Sphinx game in gamebase but I’m not sure if it’s the same one. I think this one might be a different one.”‹ “‹”‹ Not to be confused by the game of the same name by ALA Software, … Continue reading
A short entry for a title which was written by a young Tim Wright whilst he was at school. The game was called Spider Chase, and it was a Scramble clone which was sold only to kids in his playground. … Continue reading
A short entry for a title that was being created by the developers of Jack Attack – Kevin Kieller and John Traynor. This was a title for Commodore – a multi-level treasure hunting type of game, where the aim was … Continue reading
Spikey and The Search For Rip was a Graphic Adventure Creator based game which was quite good according to Jon Wells. It was submitted to Visualize back in 1994 and placed on their “Coming soon” list, listed as due for … Continue reading
Thanks to @andynick42 on Twitter for flagging up this title that was advertised in the US and was due to be released by Interstel, who have a number of titles already preserved in Gamebase64. Spin Out was to be an … Continue reading
Thanks to Jan Harries for highlighting this one, but when Rob Hubbard was asked to list all of the tunes he produced on the C64 – he turned up a few which never actually saw release (The game included). One … Continue reading
1992 The Fourth Dimension Platform: Acorn Archimedes (A3000, A310 and A400) As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus DLC content … Continue reading
Splidge and the Snowmen was to be a festive game in the mode of one of Richard Bayliss’ previous games Cetimiex. The game was being created 1999 and Richard was going to release Splidge and the Snowmen for the Christmas … Continue reading
This game is one of the rumoured unreleased 22 Codemasters games which one day we hope to track down and bring to you, like Codemasters should have done a long time ago. Nothing is known about this game too well, … Continue reading
Another combined entry for a series of titles from Sprites Software, which may or may not have been released. At present the following titles are missing: Périls – written by Hervé Le Marchand (catalog number: CM013) Rapt – Confirmed released, … Continue reading
Briefly mentioned in a magazine from the mid 80’s, there was apparently plans for a 4th game in the Spy Vs Spy series. The third game ends with our two spys being blasted into space. Therefore the theme of the … Continue reading
A short entry for what is a very early and different looking Spy vs Spy 2 game, found thanks to FREEZE64’s Vinny Mainolfi. The game was reviewed in Commodore User issue 23, August 1985, and sported screenshots showing a very … Continue reading
A very short entry for a title which was being designed by Stephen Bedser in 1993 for the C64. The game had a working title of Squat Bot, and was based around a small robot that could change its faceplate … Continue reading
Adept software recently released some of its old PC shareware games for free including one called Squarez deluxe. On their site they mentioned that the game originally started out as a C64 game called Squarez but was abandoned for the … Continue reading
1997 Miracle FX Productions Platform: Commodore Amiga 1200 An interesting title for the Commodore Amiga that was highlighted to us by contributor Ivan and was reviewed in Amiga Format magazine back in July 1997. Although a decent enough looking platformer … Continue reading
Squire was a game by Blue Chip software and Jim Zuber that would have been a financial planning based game, which was part of a series that included Millionaire and Baron. Although advertised and listed, the game is still very … Continue reading
More Apex, more unreleased works now in the form of Squish, a 4 way scrolling isometric squashing game. Possibly similar to Maze Mania, with the aim to squash creatures and have their blood change the colour of tiles. Apparently very … Continue reading
A short entry for now, as we are not 100% certain if a Commodore 64 conversion was ever on the cards. Stainless Steel was an arcade adventure game split into around four sections overall. You would start out on foot, … Continue reading
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