Proprietor of Games That Weren't—a digital archive dedicated to unreleased and cancelled video games, founded in 1999. A passionate software preservationist, contributing to various projects, particularly for the Commodore 64. By day, working as a software/web developer.
1993 Renegade / Graftgold Platform: Amiga CD32 Just a very short entry for now on Andrew Braybrook’s sequel to the classic Uridium, which was released on various Amiga platforms in late 1993. However, also on the cards was an Amiga … Continue reading →
1996-1999 MediaX Platform: PC A short entry for a recently uncovered Big Brother game that was being developed by MediaX between 1996 and 1999. Thanks to Werta Best for highlighting its recovery. The game was a pseudo-sequel to George Orwell’s … Continue reading →
1994 Millenium Platform: SEGA Mega Drive, Amiga 1200, Amiga CD32 I remember watching old episodes of Mr. Magoo as a kid, a hapless short-sighted old man who always seems to get into comical trouble, but everything always has a way … Continue reading →
1992 Core Design Platform: Atari ST I loved Chuck Rock on the Amiga, and even the C64 edition that was pretty impressive at the time. It comes when a sequel was created and released on a number of platforms including … Continue reading →
1989 SunSoft Platform: PC Engine Batman was indeed released on the PC Engine, though a much different design for the game was once underway by Sunsoft, and based closely on the 1989 Batman movie. Originally scheduled for release in December … Continue reading →
1993-1994 Codemasters Platforms: ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, SEGA Mega Drive Slicks is one of my favourite Commodore 64 racing games of all time, but did you know that there were also conversions on the cards for the other … Continue reading →
Video is now live of the recent Games That Weren’t talk at The Retro Collective. Hope you enjoy it and thank you so much to The Cave for hosting us. A fantastic place which I hope many of you will … Continue reading →
1990 Ubi Soft Platforms: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC Joe the Monkey is one of many projects that were in development and cancelled by Ubi Soft around this time. Thanks to Hoagie, we learn that the game has you … Continue reading →
Right under our noses all along! The long “lost” Commodore 64 Codemasters game Magnum Force has finally been fully preserved today thanks to Nostalgia, after being hidden on the Codemasters CD compilation and undetected for over 30 years. Check it … Continue reading →
Our second update of the year has more Commodore 64 goodness in the form of 7 new entries and 11 pre-existing entries updated (check ‘history’ tab for details of changes). See you next month! 7 new entries added Dino Time, Hårsfjärden, Mickey’s … Continue reading →
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