Daikatana is a FPS developed by Ion Storm, led by John Romero and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. Romero’s initial game design, completed in March 1997, called for a huge amount of content – 24 levels split into 4 distinct time periods, 25 weapons, and 64 monsters. Despite this, Romero believed that development of [...]
Time Traveler is an action game that was in development in 2003 / 2004 at Sensory Sweep Studios. From the only video that remains from the project it seems that the player would have been able to go back in time to the Titanic disaster, to change the history. It’s currently unknown if the Titanic [...]
Do you remember those small screens from an early Prince of Persia: Prodigy prototype that were released by Surfer Girl in January 2008? Well, now we are able to see that “alpha” version (aka Prince of Persia Zero) in motion.. and it was really beautiful, even if the final game was not like this. It [...]
Mr. Nutz: Hoppin’ Mad is a side scrolling, 2D platformer game published by Ocean Software for the Amiga and first released in 1994. The game started out as Timet: the Flying Squirrel by a company named Kaiko but was sold before being released. The player character sprite was a slimmer flying squirrel, which was changed [...]
In the last couple of months we have added some stuff in these Unseen Archives: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, World of Goo, Hellgate, Monster Party, Ouendan / Elite Beat Agents, Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Animal Crossing, Into the Shadows, Final Fantasy 7, Eight Days, Super Mario Bros 3, Survivor Day One, Metal Gear [...]
In 2000, Kuju Entertainment produced a technology demonstration codenamed Tau, for Microsoft and its Xbox platform. Images: Edit
Spyborgs is an interesting co-op action game for the Wii, developed by Bionic Games and published by Capcom. An early beta version of the game was shown in 2008, with some big differences from the “final” 2009 version: the graphic was much more primitive in the 2008 version, 2 original playable characters were removed (Kinetic [...]
The Legend of the Lost Creator, also known as The “Wyvern” Game, was a RPG planned for the Game.com, but it was never released. It’s unknown how much it was done before the cancellation. Thanks to Celine for the contribution! Images: Edit
Mega Man 4 was released in December 1991 in Japan and in January 1992 in America. Some days ago, Protodude has found an old scan with Electronic Gaming Monthly’s coverage of CES 1991, in which we can see a beta version of Mega Man 4 with a removed Boss (Sphinx midboss?), some different details in [...]
This new chapter in the Alone In The Dark series was in development in 2003 at Computer Artworks Studios, but it vanished when the studio closed down the same year. Probably this project was only in early stages before the cancellation. Images: Edit
U64 is an archive with articles, screens and videos for cancelled, beta & unseen videogames. Every change & cut creates a different gaming experience: we would like to save some documents about this evolution for curiosity, historic and artistic preservation.