Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 1805
Yet another TV sports game was planned by the excellent Cinemaware, and late into the C64’s life. Sadly this was never to be it seems. Cinemaware’s website describes the game as follows: “Lace up you hightops and get psyched for … Continue reading
Ram Jam Corporation, famous for their adventure games and Dandy, teamed up with Mosaic to create their next game Twice Shy, an adventure game based on the Dick Francis novel about a computer program which predicts race results. The Commodore … Continue reading
Thanks to some excellent contributions recently from a chap called Mads, we are starting to learn about many more titles which are sort of related to Kele Line. In SOFT 1987 July, there was news that 4 new programmers had … Continue reading
Twilight Zone was to be a graphic adventure based on the popular TV series of the 80’s. The game was being produced and eventually got a release on the Amiga and on PC. The C64 version was coming (and listed … Continue reading
Thanks for the heads up from Jazzcat – Twin Ranger was a game that was mentioned in Danish Magazine IC RUN Nov/Dec 1988. It was briefly mentioned as being developed, from a newsletter from Starvision’s owner Ivan Sølvason. Shortly after … Continue reading
From the creator of UXB, Twin Turbo was to be a conversion of the Spectrum and Amstrad game. It was an Outrun clone that I specifically remember seeing it as a kid, and wishing there was a C64 edition. Well, … Continue reading
Not to be confused with the game from 2001 with the same name, this particular Twintris was a Digital Marketing game that was due out in 1990. There is a brilliant article about the history of the game by Joachim … Continue reading
Twister is probably one of the more historic GTW titles that we have come across, not for its gameplay, but for the troubles it caused around the time of its publicity… Firstly the working title for the game was “Mother … Continue reading
Sadly not all Games That Werent investigations turn out successfully, and many times we find out about an unreleased or cancelled game only to find out that whatever work was done on it is also lost to the ether. I … Continue reading
A short GTW64 entry for a sequel to Lupo Alberto, which was considered whilst the first game was still in development. The game was to be called “Two hearts and a chicken pot”, and presentation screens and graphic elements were … Continue reading
A short Amiga entry for a sequel to Lupo Alberto, which was considered whilst the first game was still in development. The game was to be called “Two hearts and a chicken pot”, and presentation screens and graphic elements were … Continue reading
Two on Two sports is a Vollyball game from Epyx which was advertised in one of their catelogues in the early 80’s. In their adverts they strangely did drawn screenshots which looked fairly like the final game shots – so … Continue reading
Recently, Mark Hardisty has launched a website full of memorabilia in preparation for the launch of his new A Gremlin In The Works book. Part of this included source code files which were donated by Anthony J Clarke, which included … Continue reading
Ok, firstly we haven’t gone mad, but after the recent recovery of a Scooby Doo game in 2014, the same author Peter Ward informed us that he also worked on a official conversion of the Atari ST classic Typhoon Thompson … Continue reading
A surprising entry into the GTW archives. This was never really announced on the C64, until Chris West revealed that he was producing the C64 conversion for Domark of the famous Amiga title by Dan Gorlin In the game you … Continue reading
Released on the Atari, Vic 20 and TI-99/4A, this was an educational spelling game. The game was additionally advertised for the Commodore 64, but has never surfaced for reasons currently unknown. At present, the only known Romox game that has … Continue reading
Briefly mentioned in an issue of Commodore Cracker, there was a brief news item saying that the conversion of Uefa Cup Soccer for the C64 was looking seriously delayed. It never surfaced unsurprisingly, and was most likely vapourware. Note in … Continue reading
Selindek Software Studio (SSS) was a Hungarian Software house which did a few adventure games. Uj Vadnyugat was to be a trio of adventure games – two of which did make it to release back in 1989, but sadly the … Continue reading
1998-1999 Impressions Platform: PC Thanks to Niklas Lindholm, we learn of yet another lost football management game, this time with a game in the Ultimate Soccer Manager series, with the 2000 edition. Niklas has produced a brilliant video about the … Continue reading
From what looks like a compilation, Ultra Games was some kind of gaming olympics title. An Epyx-style olympics game, with each event being a particular genre of computer game. Mentioned within the news pages of Zzap 64, the following 9 … Continue reading
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