Games That Weren't: Preserving Cancelled and Unreleased Video Game History

The grail:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/parasol-stars/

>> Upon travelling to Ocean to explain the situation, Colin produced the 3 month demo again and stated that he’d be able to get the game back within short time. Sadly Ocean didn’t want to see it through any longer...

That's unfortunate as the second version likely would have been written much faster and have fewer lines of code.

Still hoping we might find something of it in the future. Though Colin binned all his personal disks about 10 years ago.

We were grateful though to recover our other holy grail: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/daffy-duck/

There's another due in the next few weeks with any luck :)

I worked for Ocean Software France at this moment. Ocean Software stopped all development on Amiga and Atari ST, so there were a few games that we working on that were never released. They wanted to focus on licenses, so all the other games were ditched

Hi there, thankfully Snow Bros and Liquid Kids were recovered in recent years.

Do you by any chance know anything about these two titles which are still at large? Guerilla War and Adidas Golden Shoe?

Not sure if i'm allowed to keep posting links here.

Yes, I programmed Snow Bros for the Atari ST. It was finished but never released. And no, I have no copy either. When I worked for Cryo, I coded a game "Trashman" for the SNES. I still have a copy of the game but it's not finished.

Sorry to hear that. I suspect that you've been asked that question a lot too about still having it by the Atari community! :) . Hopefully something will surface in the future via other means.

That sounds very interesting about Trashman and would love to learn more sometime if you were up for talking about the game? If so, please feel free to contact me via the contact form link on the website.

If I read the link correctly, this is incredibly the third version. The first version was lost in the burglary, the second version was destroyed by a vengeful ex-wife so the three month demo you quoted was the second re-write.