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.
1993-1995 Black Legend Platforms: Commodore Amiga and CD32 A short post for now to highlight a series of games that were due for release on the Amiga by Black Legend across a 2-3 year period. The publisher behind titles such … Continue reading →
Many of you will remember the original Chuck Rock and its brilliant rock band title screen from the early 90’s. Although the game itself was nothing massively special, it revokes a lot of fun and happy memories for many of … Continue reading →
1989 Mindscape Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore Amiga Thanks to contributor Robin Gravel, we have learnt of yet another unreleased Star Trek game in the shape of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier by Mindscape in 1989. Released on the … Continue reading →
Happy Sunday everyone! A lovely surprise today, where author of the unreleased Firebird game Worron, Richard Paynter got in touch to provide GTW with an upgraded and fixed version of his 34 year old game. After GTW recovered Richard’s work … Continue reading →
2010 TRSI64 Platform: Commodore Vic 20 I’ve seen some amazing developments over the years for the Vic 20 – a proper decent conversion of Manic Miner, isometric games in the style of the classic Ultimate titles and now a conversion … Continue reading →
1994 Team 17 Platforms: Amiga 1200 and CD32 Our next entry is a slightly obscure fighting game that was due for release on the Amiga 1200 and CD32. The game was set to be published by Team 17. Oddly, the … Continue reading →
It wasn’t too long ago when we did a short post on the unreleased Amiga edition of Empire’s CyberSpace. In the meantime, Amiga Games That Weren’t and Adrian Simpson were digging further already and were in touch with much of … Continue reading →
1998 Low-Level Productions Platform: Commodore Amiga Combat Remix was a late Amiga fighting game that was due for release back in 1998 from a group called Low Level, highlighted to GTW thanks to regular Grzegorz Antosiewicz. This is a short … Continue reading →
How is it May already? A slightly smaller update this month with just 3 new entries, but there are 32 updates to various titles in the archive. Mostly tidy ups of old pages, but also some new information too for … Continue reading →
I’ve been completely blown away by the support when The Games That Weren’t book was launched late last year, and even more so when it completely sold out by the start of the new year. After a number of queries … Continue reading →
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