Category:Vaporware

Vapoware is hardware or software which was officially announced, even advertised, but didn't make it to the release.

Software examples

Artic Moves
Barbarian III
Badlands (Cartridge)
Batman - The Caped Crusader (Cartridge)
Battle Stars (Microbyte)
Battlestorm
Battlestorm (Cartridge)
BloodWych (Cartridge)
Bombuzal (Image Works)
Chase HQ (Cartridge)
Cougar Force (Coktel Vision)
Combat Boy
Comic Bakery (Imagine)
Crazy Bikes
Crazy Cars 3 (Cartridge)
Cyberrun (Ultimate Play the Game)
Double Dragon (Cartridge)
Dr. Who - Dalek Attack (Alternative)
Duck Tales
Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters (Cartridge)
Fist II (Melbourne House)
Flashpoint (Ocean)
Gazza II (Cartridge)
Iron Horse (Imagine)
Judge Dredd
Kick Off (Cartridge)
Kick off 2 (Cartridge)
Killing Fist
Mega Twins (US Gold)
Ninjanimal
Ninjanimal (Cartridge)
Outrun (Cartridge)
Pro Tennis Tour 2 (Cartridge)
Project: Stealth Fighter
Rigor Mortis (Odiesoft)
Rimrunner (Palace)
Repton 3 (Superior Software)
Robocop (Cartridge)
Robocop 3 (Ocean)
Roland's Revenge (Gem Software)
S.A.T.A.R (Pandora)
S.D.I (Cartridge)
Shadow Warriors (Cartridge)
Spartacus (Odin)
Split Personalities (Cartridge)
Street Fighter II (US Gold)
Stun Runner (Cartridge)
The Amazing Spiderman (Cartridge)
The Neverending Story 2 (Linel)
The Punisher
The Spy Who Loved Me (Cartridge)
Terra Cresta (Imagine)
Trantor 2
Tilt
Toki (Ocean) (Cartridge)
Where Time Stood Still

Spartacus

Amstrad Action issue 16 had a cover tape which had some promotional screenshots and some text describing a number of games. Spartacus was one of them. The screenshots are on the same side as Druid. Nothing of this is playable.

Some source code to Spartacus has been found. There is more than one version of the code but none of it is playable. A character can be moved, there are some graphics for backgrounds, the player and a lion sprite. That is it.

The screenshot probably comes from this demo.