Games That Weren't^®

Confirmed that it was finished and released as Iketa. Case closed!

Venom Blazer is non other than a Trailblazer clone, hence the name, lacking the two player mode of the game. The only real resembelence to Trailblazer is the inclusion of the classic checkerboard road effect, which scrolls quite smoothly as … Continue reading →

A sad tale for this unfinished RPG game. This was in development by Waveform in the 90’s, but sadly the game’s creator John Kaiser died in April 23, 1997 due to Hodgekin’s Lymphoma. John left behind this very title which … Continue reading →

Another title which was found on the disks of Cory Kin, but we believe this was a demo downloaded from Compunet at some point. Upon loading up the game, it doesn’t look like much – but you can move around … Continue reading →

Yet another title from the brilliant Cory Kin, and this time a very impressive vertically scrolling shoot-em-up, with some lovely graphics and attack waves. It’s still early days and a relatively short map, but there is enough here to show … Continue reading →

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 →