Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni for the heads up on these 3 Atari ST games which never saw the light of day,  including the recently recovered Highway Encounter game (Which is believed to be pretty much complete, though lacking on music).

 

Included in the list are Artic Moves and Laser Squad 2.  Visit the Atari Mania website link below for more details:

http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-st-unreleased_licence_18_S_G.html

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Thanks to Peter Weighill for highlighting, but the World of Spectrum have recently recovered another unreleased game, this time an early version of Basket Master called Fernando Martin Basket Master…

 

Now, this particular version was in development with support by Dinamic, but the owners decided that deadlines were being missed and the game was reassigned to another programmer.  The game used the graphics that were already created, but the new programmer did the game code itself from scratch.  Apart from a mention in Micro Hobby magazine in 1986, the original BETA version has never surfaced until now.

It begs the question now if a similar fate happened to C64 and Amstrad conversions,  with the C64 version being done I think in-house by Gari Biasillo. 

But for Spectrum owners, check out the findings and read more details over at the WoS entry here:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0024365

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It’s been a while since I last visited Atari Protos, but i’m glad I did recently as it seems i’ve missed a lot of findings!

 

Highlights include:

• Bouncin’ Baby findings
• Racer prototype
• Androman on the Moon
• Actionauts 
• Turbo

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Before my annual leave is up,  here’s another update for GTW64…  this includes some nice findings on a few Beyond Belief titles (Beyond Belief were a company that came around late in the Spectrum/C64’s lifetime and tried to fill the gap that Codemasters/Ocean etc left)

Full summary:

• ‘Kayde’ special (8 new entries from the obscure 1983 software house)
• ‘Jimmy’s Grand Prix’ major update (Clearer screenshots, developer details, game details)
• ‘Shove Off’ / aka Pushover update  (Another Beyond Belief title, more details from Jonathan Cauldwell)
• ‘Caveman Ninja’ and ‘Flimbo’s Quest 2′ tunes added (Caveman Ninja in particular was a surprise)
• ‘Thundercats V1′ new entry added (What turned into Beyond The Ice Palace…)
• ‘The Secret Path’ new entry added

http://www.gtw64.co.uk

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Catalypse was a pretty nifty C64 sideways shooter which challenged the likes of Armalyte and Delta towards the end of the C64’s lifetime.  Sadly Zzap 64 were strangely critical of the game and gave it a low mark, although the game is quite awesome from its intros, the game and the end sequence.

 

Recently the guys at ready64.org interviewed Andrea Pompili and managed to get an unreleased version of Catalypse which features a number of bug fixes,  some including a level 2 loading screen, fixes to the bosses of 1st and 2nd level, etc.

Grab the new version from here:

http://ready64.org/giochi/scheda_gioco/id/2710/catalypse-1.1

If also you wish to read the interview with Andrea Pompili, then check it out here: (Note that its all in Italian, and you may need to run it through a translator!)

http://ready64.org/articoli/leggi/idart/79/intervista-ad-andrea-pompili

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