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.
1982-1983 Archer Maclean Platform: Atari 400/800 In August 2023, Chris Wilkins (Fusion Retro Books) entrusted Games That Weren’t with the task of preserving all of Archer’s development disks. Whilst going through Archer’s 5.25″ work disks, a series of significant discoveries … Continue reading →
1983 SEGA Platform: Atari 2600 (possibly VIC-20 and others too – unconfirmed) Team member Fabrizio Bartoloni recently brought to my attention a very intriguing title which SEGA announced as part of their first line up of games for various home … Continue reading →
Already into the second month of 2024, and plenty more updates for the GTW64 archive. So here is what we have for February 2024: Two new recoveries Thanks to Csaba Virag, two more seemingly unpreserved games have been found. It … Continue reading →
1993 ICOM Simulations Platform: PC and Mac ICOM Simulations, the makers of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, were to follow up with a title called Global Golf: The Earth Invitational. Announced around Summer 1993, the game would give you the chance … Continue reading →
1995-2003 Mirage Media / World Software / Horn Platforms: Commodore Amiga 1200/CD32, PC and Game Boy Advance It may have been a basic fighting game with simple graphics, but Franko: The Crazy Revenge did pretty well in the Polish games … Continue reading →
1992 Unknown Platforms: PC Engine Following on from our report about a possible Gods conversion on the PC Engine, we now take a look at what seemed to be a conversion of Toaplan’s Snow Bros that was due for release … Continue reading →
A short Amiga entry for a sequel to Lupo Alberto, which was considered whilst the first game was still in development. The game was to be called “Two hearts and a chicken pot”, and presentation screens and graphic elements were … Continue reading →
A quick post thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog, to highlight the recent recovery of an unpreserved educational title for the C64 called Matchmaker: Grammar. Released in 1983 by American Educational Computer. The disk was preserved by SoulBuster on the … Continue reading →
2000 Frey United Software Platform: Amiga 1200 Following on from last week’s post on Euro Round-Up: Czech Republic, another recovery has been made from the archives of Frey United Software with another football manager game due out for the Commodore … Continue reading →
1992-2008 Bitmap Brothers Platforms: PC Engine and Nintendo DS The PC Engine/TurboGrax-16 is a wonderful platform with a wide range of titles, including my favourite – Parasol Stars. As the platform started to get a little bit of traction, we … Continue reading →
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