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Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games
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Czarny Kruk
Czarny Kruk (which translates roughly as 'Black Raven') was the working title for a dark graphic adventure that unfortunately never made it properly into production. The project came about following...
Games That Weren’t C64 – August 2026 updates
August has gone in a flash, and so we have our next digest from the Commodore 64 archive, where quite a bit happened this month with 1 new entry, 15...
Fallout
Fallout by Interplay may be a world hit these days, but already in 1991 a game by that name was created for the Amiga. The game was written in AMOS,...
DJ Hero 3
Following the release of DJ Hero 2 in October 2010, FreeStyleGames immediately began work on what would become DJ Hero 3. Although Activision never officially announced the sequel, development was...
Abattoir in Cosmos
Abattoir in Cosmos was an unreleased shoot-em'-up game developed around 2000 by the Russian shareware game company AxySoft (known for creating the relatively popular 3D Qix/Xonix clone AirXonix). Continue reading...
Shutter Jack
Founded in 1997, RingZero Game Studios is a game development company based in Thailand . The studio is often known for making casual and family-friendly games on iOS, the Wii,...
Grolier / Mindflight missing titles
Thanks to MalcSeventyFour firstly we are very happy to share 15 previously (or what seems to be) unpreserved Commodore 64 educational titles from Grolier / Mindflight - which includes the...
Garfield Gets Real
Most people will be familiar with the Nintendo DS adaptation of Garfield Gets Real, released in 2009 and based on the animated film of the same name. What is less...
Madballs
Now many of you will know that Ocean released a game based on the licence of Madballs in 1987, though what you might not know is that another version was...
Two Lost Atari 5200 Prototypes Recovered from Frank Cohen’s Archives
News of another fantastic preservation story to share, this time for the Atari 5200. Thanks to a collaborative effort between several members of the Atari community, two long-lost prototypes by...
Rimini, Mare Azzurro
Before Simulmondo became famous for sports titles, comic book licences and adventures, the company had grander ambitions for its debut line-up. One of the earliest announced projects was Rimini, Mare...
Games That Weren’t C64 – July 2026 updates
As predicted, a bit quieter this month, but we still have a new entry in the Commodore 64 archive and 18 various updates to existing entries to check out (see...
World Geography C64 disks preserved
Allan Pinkerton has been busy once more, preserving World Geography 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993 editions which you can check out with full scans here: https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=commodore+bobco&sort=-publicdate These...
S.O.S
Today we have a new recovery for the Commodore Plus 4, and a long lost Hungarian game called S.O.S, created in 1993 by Zsolt Asztalos and Robert Horvath. The recovery...
Tower of the World
One of the most ambitious Polish role playing games of the 1990s. Tower of the World was a huge fantasy RPG that had been quietly evolving for a number of...
Eye of Horus pre-release disk (Commodore 64)
Something a bit different for the Games That Weren't archives today, with preservation of what seems to be a strange pre-release version of Logotron's Eye of Horus on the Commodore...
Two Commodore Plus/4 Educational Titles Preserved
Thanks to Csaba Virág, we've learned of two more pieces of Commodore Plus/4 software that have thankfully been preserved. Dino Daddy is an English language learning program where players translate...
Storm Force
Next into the Games That Weren't archives is an Amstrad CPC game that never was, called Storm Force. The game was a RNLI simulation which had graphics created by Lee...
Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes 3
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 3 was in development at 5000 Feet and Climax for the PlayStation 2, but was ultimately never released. Very little has surfaced from the project over...
New Mountain King Atari 8-bit Prototype Recovered
Another nice preservation update to highlight today, this time thanks to the Atari community. John Hardie has recovered a previously unseen prototype of Mountain King for the Atari 8-bit computers...