Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 210
A short entry for a series of titles by The Steam Powered Computer Company which were highlighted by contributor Dan Warren. At present, the only game by the company in the archives is The Inheritance, which was released in 1985 … Continue reading
Stellar 7 – not quite the same vector game which did see the light of day, but a sequel to Hades Nebula that was shelved fairly early on in it’s development after The Bitmap Brother released Xenon. The reason? Well, … Continue reading
Yet another Firebird title which was never to see the light of day, and a rather promising Armalyte kind of game too! Storm Warrior was like Armalyte but with a full colour scroll (something pioneered at Ocean, scrolling the whole … Continue reading
Not massively different, but thanks to Luca Bertoldi, here is a screen showing a rather different looking main character for Stormlord – looking more elvish and beardless. It’s possible that more early screens exist, so if you spot any – … Continue reading
An arcade game from a company better known for their text adventure games. Stratos was advertised for the C64, Atari and TRS-80 – and seems to have been released for the last two platforms but the C64. They even have … Continue reading
1993 U.S. Gold Platform: Amstrad CPC Our next entry into the archives is one which has tormented Amstrad CPC users for many many years. But were they then perhaps saved from the lack of a Street Fighter 2 conversion? Back … Continue reading
Street Fighter 2 is well known for being an average conversion and very easy game on the C64 when it was eventually released. With so many people let down by the conversion, recent years have seen homebrew attempts to try … Continue reading
A very short entry for another potential lost Capcom conversion in the shape of Street Football (not to be confused with the similarly named Epyx game). This was to be a conversion of the Bally Sente arcade game. The game … Continue reading
1985, and Ocean were becoming the biggest UK C64 games company with its popular titles with Martin Galway’s fine music. Ocean, trying to dominate the market, bought licences to make conversions of some great programs, such as Knightrider, Miami Vice … Continue reading
1991 U.S. Gold Platforms: Atari Lynx and Atari Panther 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 content to share with you. It was … Continue reading
A very quick entry for now, as it has been suggested that there may have been a US version of Strider in development, before the Tiertex version was used instead. This was found via a comment on a Battle of … Continue reading
2003 Simergy and Lost Toys Platforms: Microsoft Xbox, PC and Sony PlayStation 2 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
In the early 90’s, quite a few games were mentioned for UK release by Italian company “Idea”, and quite a few did actually make it over here… Apart from Sturmtruppen. Sturmtruppen was described as a sort of Midnight Resistance style … Continue reading
A short entry for a Commodore MAX title that was proposed, but never finished and released. Sub Hunt would have you piloting your helicopter in a fast-paced search and destroy mission. You know the subs are down there, but where? … Continue reading
2015 Sacred Square Games Platforms: PC and potentially others 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 to share with you. Within … Continue reading
Another combined entry for a series of titles from Sunburst Communications, which may or may not have been released. At present the following titles are missing: Bank Street Beginner’s Filer Bank Street School Filer – Animal Life Bank Street School … Continue reading
Another company entry, thanks to Peter Weighill, for a number of educational titles that are currently missing, and from another US based label called Sungem Educational Adventures. The following games were advertised with screenshots: Spelling Space Wars State Chase Kids … Continue reading
1992 Sandy White Platform: Commodore Amiga Back in late 1991, Commodore User magazine reported that Sandy White was back on the scene and working on a plan to bring back Ant Attack as a new spruced up title for the … Continue reading
1992 Palace Software Platforms: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, PC, C64, Amstrad CPC Note: This is heavily based on the original C64 archive entry. Originally starting off and named as Barbarian 3, this was originally to be a straightforward sequel to … Continue reading
Another game we’d better start looking for, and one which might be slightly harder for me being in the UK. Super C (Or Super Contra/Super Commandos) is a US only release it seems and one which had it been released … Continue reading
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