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The original Commodore PET versions of Supersoft's Catacombs and Goblin Towers (1981), thought lost for around 45 years, have now been recovered, preserved and released by Marcel Lansing!
Read the full story here:
https://www.commodoregames.net/catacombs.asp
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Did you know a brand new Gauntlet game was completed for the Nintendo DS... but never released?
Despite being reviewed by magazines such as Retro Gamer, the game was cancelled before it reached the shelves. Thankfully it survives today.
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Did you know a traditional Super Mario platformer was once in development for the Philips CD-i?
Super Mario's Wacky Worlds would have taken Mario on a bizarre adventure across Ancient Greece, Egypt, pirate ships, the Arctic and beyond before it was ultimately cancelled.
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Source code has been recovered for Imagitec's unreleased Raiden (Amiga/Atari Falcon), with sources suggesting around 8 Amiga levels and additional Falcon content beyond the known 3-level shareware build. We've also added early Space Junk (Atari Falcon) sources. Huge thanks to tomseddon for preservin
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The original Commodore PET versions of Supersoft's Catacombs and Goblin Towers (1981), thought lost for around 45 years, have now been recovered, preserved and released by Marcel Lansing!
Read the full story here:
https://www.commodoregames.net/catacombs.asp
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 3 was in development for the PlayStation 2 but never saw release. Only a small glimpse of the game has surfaced so far. Could more of the game still survive and can it one day be preserved?
https://www.gamesthatwer…
A previously unseen prototype of Mountain King for the Atari 8-bit has been recovered by John Hardie from a former Roklan employee's disk, revealing a build from before K-Byte acquired the publishing rights.
More details:
https://www.atari…
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Did you know a traditional Super Mario platformer was once in development for the Philips CD-i?
Super Mario's Wacky Worlds would have taken Mario on a bizarre adventure across Ancient Greece, Egypt, pirate ships, the Arctic and beyond bef…
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More for the Amstrad CPC today on Games That Weren't with release of a very early Shoot-Em-Up by Clockwize from the late 1980s. This recovery was made thanks to Dean Hickingbottom and a nice early glimpse at what could have been a nice bud…
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A more advanced preview of the unreleased Commodore 64 shoot-em-up Trigger Happy has surfaced! Featuring improved graphics and much more developed attack waves than the previously known build, it's a fascinating glimpse at what might have …
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Developed by Titus, but ultimately never released, Ninjanimal was intended as a beat-em-up inspired by Altered Beast.
Surviving Atari ST and Amiga prototypes along with developer insight reveal the story behind this strange lost project:
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With Starglider 2 set to feature in the upcoming "Memories of Rainbird and Beyond Software" Kickstarter, here's a look back at the unreleased C64 conversion, its preservation story and the playable preview that survives today.
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Did you know a brand new Gauntlet game was completed for the Nintendo DS... but never released?
Despite being reviewed by magazines such as Retro Gamer, the game was cancelled before it reached the shelves. Thankfully it survives today.
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Epsilon is an impressive early unreleased vertical shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64 by Paul Hughes and Dawn Drake, originally in development for Rainbird in 1988. Preview builds, source code and its fascinating story have thankfully surviv…
Missing He-Man games? U.S. Gold advertised Amstrad CPC, IBM PC and Commodore 16 versions of Masters of the Universe: The Super Adventure and The Arcade Game, but they never appeared. Can anything of them be found?
https://www.gamesthatwere…
Source code has been recovered for Imagitec's unreleased Raiden (Amiga/Atari Falcon), with sources suggesting around 8 Amiga levels and additional Falcon content beyond the known 3-level shareware build. We've also added early Space Junk (…
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