The original Tyrian was a shoot ‘em up developed for the PC by Eclipse Productions (later named World Tree Games) and published in 1995 by Epic MegaGames. A version of Tyrian 2000 was in development for the Game Boy Color, but it was later cancelled to work on the Tyrian 2000 GBA version. The game [...]
Unreal is a FPS developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes and published by GT Interactive in 1998. Originally, Unreal was going to be a Quake-style shooter: earlier screens showed a large status bar and centered weapons, similar to Doom and Quake. The main character was also going to be a woman, however in the [...]
Sonic the Hedgehog CD, or simply Sonic CD, is a platform game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, released for the Sega Mega-CD in Japan on September 23, 1993, in Europe in October 1993, and finally for the Sega CD in North America on November 19, 1993. After the release of Sonic the Hedgehog, Lead Programmer [...]
Robert Seddon linked us to this article on Kotaku, in which they talk about a removed level from Command & Conquer Generals, a RTS game that was released in 2003.
Called “Black Sheep”, the mission tasks you with driving one of the Global Liberation Army (ie the terrorist faction) chemical weapons vehicles around a “town that [...]
In April 2009, Dr.daichi and Unclejun from the Assemblergames Forum have shared a lot of screenshots from an unreleased Playstation 2 shoot em up, that was in development in 2002 at Joycast / Hanbitsoft, two korean companies. Wingz was going to be an on-rail shooter, similar to Panzer Dragoon or StarFox, but it seems that [...]
Duke Nukem 3D is a FPS developed by 3D Realms and published by Apogee Software. It was released on January 29, 1996. LameDuke is an early beta version of Duke Nukem 3D, which was released by 3D Realms as a “bonus” one year after the release of the official version. It has been released as [...]
The original Unreal is a FPS developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes, released for PC by GT Interactive in May 1998. A playstation port was in development by Pterodactyl Software with new exclusive levels and weapons, but it seems that Infogrames decided to cancel the project for some reasons.
In may 2009 Leo from the [...]
A prototype for a Turok FPS, based on the N64 version, was in development for the GameBoy Advance, but in the end this version was cancelled and the released Turok: Evolution for the GBA was instead a side-scrolling game. This early proto was leaked in february 2009 thanks to Hidden Palace! In this playable demo [...]
From 2004 to 2007 DHGames were working on a GBA racing game similar to Excitebike, but sadly their publisher changed its mind later and the project was never released to the market, even if it was finished. The game was later reworked and it’s now coming out for the Nintendo DS. A rom of the [...]
The NintendoAge community was able to rise enough money to obtain and share a rom of the cancelled NES game “U-Force Power Games“. Two beta versions of the game are now available to download, one leaked by DreamTR and the other by Skyybe: huge props to everyone for these new dumps! Keep in mind that [...]
The original Tyrian was a shoot ‘em up developed for the PC by Eclipse Productions (later named World Tree Games) and published in 1995 by Epic MegaGames. A version of Tyrian 2000 was in development for the Game Boy Advance, but after the then publisher Symmetry Entertainment had closed business, the European publisher Stealth Productions, [...]
Hannibal was a FPS / Adventure game that was in development by Arxel Tribe and that was going to be published by Mindscape in 2002 / 2003 for PC. It was based on the horror film with the same name, and it would had let players to assume the role of special agent Clarice Starling [...]
Skrybe from Lost Levels has released many NES prototypes that were not yet available online. Thanks to him and the whole Lost Levels crew, those lost games can now be played and preserved. You can find download links for the roms in the related topic on the Lost Levels Forum.
Unreleased games
Hero Quest – Final build, [...]
Panzer Dragoon II Zwei is a shoot ‘em up released for the Sega Saturn in 1996, it was the second Panzer Dragoon game released but it is a prequel of the series. It was developed by Team Andromeda, one of Sega’s internal development studios. [Infos from Wikipedia]
In the bonus section of the game, the “pandora’s [...]
“It Came from the Desert” is a 1989 computer game developed by Cinemaware. It was originally released for the Amiga and the gameplay centers on the player choosing what they want to do by selecting an option on the multiple choice screens that pop up.
This unreleased Sega Genesis / Megadrive version was going to be [...]
Wonder Boy in Monster World (Wonder Boy V Monster World III in Japan) is a title in the series of Wonder Boy games which were developed in the 1980s and 1990s by Sega and Westone. It is the fifth game in the Wonder Boy series, and the third game in the Monster World sub-series. [Infos [...]
Fate is a game which was in development in 1996 by DogBone Software and was going to be published by Intracorp. The game was being made with the Build Engine, a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman for 3D Realms (used for Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood and Redneck Rampage). Sadly Intracorp went [...]
Hellgate was a cancelled racing / third person shooter that was in development for the Dreamcast. As some of you already know, in March 2009 a playable built of this game was somehow recovered from a DC DEV-BOX unit and it was shared online for everyone. Now it can be played and preserved! Huge props [...]
Tower of Goo Unlimited is the original prototype, made some years ago, of World of Goo, a famous indie game for Pc and Wiiware. Even if you must create only a tower in this concept, the basic gameplay and the graphic style are essentially the same. There is a level called “Tower of Goo” in [...]
As we can read on Wikipedia STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, previously known as Stalker: Oblivion Lost, is a PC FPS by Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, published in 2007. The game was first announced in November 2001 and had its release date, originally in 2003, pushed back several times. Due to the delays some considered [...]
Do you remember Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Universe? It was an interesting 4 Players brawl / fighting game that was in development by Treasure, and even if the Tiny Toon brand could turn you away, dont be fooled: this game was going to be a “spiritual” successor to Rakugaki Showtime, one of the [...]
Redline 2 (also know as Redline Arena) was the sequel of Redline, a post-apocalyptic combination of FPS / Car Combat game that was released in 1999 for the PC. Redline Arena was going to be developed for the SEGA Dreamcast: a small team from Beyond Games worked on a playable PC prototype for about 6 [...]
Recently a prototype of Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones has been found. It is a very early version of the Sacred Stones and contains many differences. This pre-alpha ROM uses many things from the previous game as placeholder; even the title and menus from the Blazing Sword are still there. The game opens up with a [...]
Some days ago those wonderful people from Team Carrot and No-Intro have leaked the Toon Panic proto that was sold around from collectors to collectors from many years. It seems that one of the owners of the original proto cart decided to share this interesting piece of N64 history with everyone, so finally we can [...]
X-cult has found many protos for the Atari Jaguar in the Jaguar Sector website. You can download them here. Here’s the list:
2600 Emulator (Stella)(Unreleased)
Arena Football 95 (JSII Release)
Barkley Shut Up And Jam (Prototype)
Blue Lightning Tour 4 Beta
Blue Lightning Tour 5 Beta
Blue Lightning Tour 6 Beta
BrainGames (unreleased)Breakout2000 (Prototype)
Brett Hull Hockey (Cart Version)
Cybermorph (Early Prototype)
Dante’s Inferno PC [...]
Fighting Force is beat ‘em up developed by Core Design that was released for the PlayStation, PC and Nintendo 64 in 1997. A Saturn version was in development too, but it was later cancelled. Now, thanks to Hidden Palace and its community, an aplha of the Saturn version is leaked to the public! It seems [...]
A platform game with Tiny Toon characters, in development for the Jaguar but later cancelled. It seems that a beta-demo of this game was leaked some time ago. In 2006, Atariboy has posted on the Toon Zone Forum some images and sprites from this game, that were found on the official site of the developers.
Thanks [...]
This is Ninja Gaiden for the Genesis. It is (in theory) a conversion of the 1988 coin-op, but basically the only thing that it is similar to the original is the HUD, because everything else was completely reworked. It was never released (even if some websites claims the opposite) in any region, and since [...]
Thanks to Serenes Forest we can read about a list of differences that were found in the prototype version of Fire Emblem 7, a beta that was leaked online sometime ago. Major differences are in the colors of the CGs, options, sprites, animations, extra shops and items. The 2 betas can be download at the
Yep, that’s right, you can download the various beta builds of Spore at www.spore.com/comm/prototypes . We can only hope that more software houses follow the example of EA and release as many betas as possible!
As they say in their site: “Spore has been a huge undertaking. Along the way we ended up exploring countless design [...]
Mellahan has sent us a mail to make us to notice that Protodude’s Rockman Corner blog has just gotten a hold of a beta build of Mega Man Legends (Rockman DASH) for PSX. The first link contains info over the beta build, while the second link contains the files to download the beta. From [...]
Corn Buster is an unreleased Super Nintendo game developed by Engine Software. The game is the story of a dragon named Globey, who sets out to defeat the person who’s stolen all the cornflakes in the world. The gameplay is an interesting mix of an Arkanoid-Style ball-and-paddle game and a vertical scrolling shooter. The game [...]
Probably it’s an old news for some of you, but if you still did not know, the Neopong team has shared with the public a ROM of their cancelled GBA / DS game, a shmup named World Reborn. As we can read at the WD Forum “My partners and I have finally completely given up [...]
Tommy Thunder was a third person shooter in development for the Nintendo 64 (and later for the PSX too) from Player 1 studios, but it was never released and we never got many informations about it. In November 2007, herpetic.adventures on the LostLevels forum posted an interesting story about a misterious file: “[...] about 10 [...]
Spore is a video game under development by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The game has drawn wide attention for its promise to simulate the development of a species on a galactic scope, using its innovation of user-guided evolution via the use of procedural generation for many of the components of the game, providing [...]
DRX has updated Hidden Palace with the Panzer Dragoon protos we talked about a couple of days ago:
Panzer Dragoon Saga – Sep 16, 1997 prototype – Disc 1 (of only 1?)
Panzer Dragoon Saga – Nov 30, 1997 prototype – Discs 1, 2 and 3
Panzer Dragoon Saga – Dec 22, 1997 prototype – Disc 1
Panzer Dragoon [...]
Images from an old E3 Beta demo that was sold on ebay some time ago. The description said: “This auction is for the Castlevania E3 edition. Only one known to exist in collector’s hands this could be the highlight of many game collections. This disc was an early development version of the title which [...]
It looks like that at Sonic Retro they have found a playable proto of Sonic’s Edusoft, a cancelled sonic game for the Sega Master System: “Sonic’s Edusoft is an unreleased educational game for the Sega Master System developed in 1991 by Tiertex. The unofficially licensed game had been unknown until a Wikipedia page was created [...]
Recently, three new Atari 7800 protos, Sirius, Plutos, Rapart, were finally recovered. This is an interesting news because they represent some of the most complex titles ever developed for the ill-fated console. You can read all about them on http://www.atariprotos.com/
Stavo spulciando il forum di ASSEMblergames.com quando mi balza all’occhio il titolo di un topic: N64 40 Winks dumped and released
Un flashback, in un non meglio precisato episodio del nostro Podcast 64 Ness e Yota (o era Bakka, ehi non ho una memoria perfetta!) discutono se 40 Winks era uscito o no per N64, affermando [...]
Tiny Toon Adventures: DotL is the name of Tiny Toon Adventures video game that seems to have been cancelled. Originally developed by Treasure Video Games, it was originally slated for the PlayStation 2 and possibly the Nintendo GameCube. It was originally slated for release in May of 2001, but thanks to many delays, the game [...]
A few months prior to Chrono Trigger’s market release, a beta version was given to magazine reviewers and game stores. An unfinished build of the game, it contains numerous differences from the final version, such as unused music tracks and a location called “Singing Mountain”. Curious fans later explored the [...]
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Toon Panic was an interesting fighting game for the Nintendo 64, in development at Bottom Up. It was meant to be a multiplayer brawl fighting game, similar to Power Stone or Rakugaki ShowTime, but it was later cancelled because of bankruptcy of the developers. A proto was sold some years ago on a japanese auction, [...]
Recently a Rez beta was leaked and posted on underground-gamer’s forum . You can download it from http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=J5HR8VNM
Source: Lostlevels Forum
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.