Games That Weren't^®

Remember Hoppin’ Mad by Elite? That game where you control a set of bouncing balls across a landscape? Well Vicious Circle was to be a similar sort of game, with a larger ball and only one of them – bouncing … Continue reading →

Victory! is a vertical push scroll game where you must control a tank and blast through various obstacles. It got to a fair stage of progress and was shaping up pretty well. The game was started in 1986 by Ian … Continue reading →

Thanks to Pudva for highlighting this particular game which we were surprised to see!…. Prophecy 1: Viking Child was a semi-popular game on the Amiga platform, and was a fairly neat scrolling platformer game. It was very much a Wonderboy … Continue reading →

Vitrus sounds like a puzzler, but its nothing of the sort – and is actually a sort of Fly Harder/Thrust clone, where you must guide your ship through some tight caverns. It’s pretty unforgiving at this early stage, but it … Continue reading →

"Voice" is another game in its most early stages, featuring a few platforms and some cute objects to collect. You are a snail like creature, which has the ability to drop some bombs. These bombs create an awesome explosion which … Continue reading →

It is with much regret that I am adding Paul Koller’s VVVVVV into the archives, which seems to have been abandoned now with a final preview released in 2017 that was its last state from back in 2011. Paul has … Continue reading →

Trying to improve on their abysmal "Micro Machine" game, Patriot Games tried their luck with "Wabbit". Sadly, this just makes things worse. With a simple hi-res bunny which jumps across the screen (Though animating nicely), while you take aim and … Continue reading →

Not too much to say about this title just yet.  War Deal has you controlling a jet which can drop bombs on boats (with a cute “Ouch!” speech bubble), but seems to be mostly just advertising that the game is … Continue reading →

Yet another title for the archives which was in a very different state compared to the final game at one stage. Thanks to Dr Strange/Atlantis for highlighting this title, which has actually been doing the rounds for some time. This … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that was recovered by Genesis Project in early 2019 from the work disks of scener Scrap. He stated to GP that this was a preview of a game that would never be finished. It’s … Continue reading →

A simple and quick preview, but one which has been done very well and features a sort of wizard that you have to guide to the end of a room, avoiding some sort of raindrops. We believe that this was … Continue reading →

Welcome to hell is a game which does not have a huge amount of information available currently. It was found on the preserved disks of the late Jukka TapanimÁ¤ki with no real context or information about it. We assume that … Continue reading →

The title may not suggest that it feels much for itself, but this isn’t a bad early preview of a Combat-style clone with space ships in a maze. Who Carez looks nice and sounds nice, and could have been a … Continue reading →

A silly name for a simple two player game (or the beginnings of one) where you must thrust around and destroy each other. The preview features some hi-res graphics and working ships, but no real interaction between the two just … Continue reading →

A C64 conversion of the popular TV game show. While promising to look at, the preview does not actually do much apart from ask a question about if you like the game or not. This just repeats over and over, … Continue reading →

Our next entry we’re not 100% certain of just yet – was it intended as a proper game, or was this merely part of a demo that was released back in the day? This was discovered by GTW regular Csaba … Continue reading →

A neat looking game in similar vein to the classic "Shadow Of The Beast". Not much in this preview apart from some nice scrolling graphics, a good main character and some rather large creatures to try and kill. You scroll … Continue reading →

Wildfire is an ace horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up in the Armalyte mould. Unfortunatly, once the game was programmed, it was sent to a games publishing company in Germany which was also part of a Cracking crew. Therefore it was cracked and … Continue reading →