Preserving Cancelled and Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
We are a cancelled and unreleased Video games archive with prototypes, developer history and assets for many computers and consoles of all ages. A non-profit large archive dedicated to preserving lost games that were never released to the public. Sharing history and stories from the developers, assets and more before it is too late. GTW has been preserving lost video game history online since 1999, and long before that offline.
Please Browse our archive and discover the many entries that we host for many different platforms.
Next into the archives is a game you will never have heard of, and was due from the creators of Shockwave on the Amiga. This was a very early top-down multi-directional shooter called Aftershock – also for the Commodore Amiga.
The game was being created by Lance Abson, and had a neat feature where you could zoom in and out of the background, similar to the arcade game Metal Hawk by Namco. Continue reading
It’s early days with our next entry, but its always been wondered why Konami’s Aliens arcade game never appeared on home consoles or computers. According though to Jaz Rignall back in November 1990 of Mean Machines, a Mega Drive version was in the pipeline.
“You’ll be pleased to hear that a Mega Drive version of Aliens is in the pipeline, but I don’t think it’ll appear until the middle of next year.” Jaz replied to a reader who had written in asking about the game.
Sadly, nothing was to appear at all – and so when Martyn Carroll covered the game in issue 243 of Retro Gamer magazine, he asked Julian about it. Julian couldn’t recall the exact details, but he definitely remembered hearing from an insider at SEGA that Konami were developing it. Continue reading
Thanks to Louise Herd, further recovered graphical assets have been added for Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes (Gameboy Advance) and F1-X (Gameboy Advance and Gameboy Color). Links below:
Today we’re taking a look thanks to Yassine Bakrim at four lost titles for the obscure Super A’Can console: Dinosaur War, City Escape, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Quick Fighting Attack:
Quick Fighting Attack was a title for the Super A’Can – a relatively obscure console released in 1995 exclusively in Taiwan by Funtech. Fresh to the market, the Super A’Can was Funtech’s ambitious attempt to rival fourth-generation consoles like the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64.
However, since the console was based around the Motorola 68000 microchip – the same one that powered the Sega Genesis and Neo Geo – Funtech soon realized their ambition never even reached the starting line. Eventually, the console failed, dragging its manufacturer down with it. Continue reading
Dinosaur War was a title for the Super A’Can – a relatively obscure console released in 1995 exclusively in Taiwan by Funtech. Fresh to the market, the Super A’Can was Funtech’s ambitious attempt to rival fourth-generation consoles like the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64.
However, since the console was based around the Motorola 68000 microchip – the same one that powered the Sega Genesis and Neo Geo – Funtech soon realized their ambition never even reached the starting line. Eventually, the console failed, dragging its manufacturer down with it. Continue reading
Journey to the Center of the Earth (地心歷險) was a title for the Super A’Can – a relatively obscure console released in 1995 exclusively in Taiwan by Funtech. Fresh to the market, the Super A’Can was Funtech’s ambitious attempt to rival fourth-generation consoles like the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64.
However, since the console was based around the Motorola 68000 microchip – the same one that powered the Sega Genesis and Neo Geo – Funtech soon realized their ambition never even reached the starting line. Eventually, the console failed, dragging its manufacturer down with it. Continue reading
City Escape was a title for the Super A’Can – a relatively obscure console released in 1995 exclusively in Taiwan by Funtech. Fresh to the market, the Super A’Can was Funtech’s ambitious attempt to rival fourth-generation consoles like the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64.
However, since the console was based around the Motorola 68000 microchip – the same one that powered the Sega Genesis and Neo Geo – Funtech soon realized their ambition never even reached the starting line. Eventually, the console failed, dragging its manufacturer down with it. Continue reading
A short entry for a bookware title that was advertised at the CES in Chicago in 1984 from Spinnaker / Windham Classics. Wind In The Willows would have been quite similar in style to Swiss Family Robinson.
We’re not sure how far the game ever got, though there was also a Robin Hood game announced a year later that also never saw the light of day. Seemed to be quite a few titles not released by the company. It seems no version saw release on any platform, but please let us know if we’ve got this wrong.
If you know anything more about the title, please do get in touch.
With thanks to Karl Kuras for highlighting and Archive.org for the scans.
A short entry for a bookware title that was advertised at the CES in Chicago in 1984 from Spinnaker / Windham Classics. Gulliver’s Travels would have been quite similar in style to Swiss Family Robinson.
We’re not sure how far the game ever got, though there was also a Robin Hood game announced a year later that also never saw the light of day. Seemed to be quite a few titles not released by the company. It seems no version saw release on any platform, but please let us know if we’ve got this wrong.
If you know anything more about the title, please do get in touch.
With thanks to Karl Kuras for highlighting and Archive.org for the scans.
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