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.
As we leave Summer and begin to enter into Autumn, we have more updates to the Commodore 64 archive with the following for the month: Stargate found! If you missed it earlier this month, then the long lost AtariSoft development … Continue reading →
1988 Infocom Platforms: Apple II GS, PC Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth is an RPG title that was created for the Apple Macintosh back in 1988 for Infocom. It featured text entry, but also a dynamically generated map and graphics … Continue reading →
1988 Arcana Software Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64 Mars Cops is game that we’ve long covered within our C64 archive and we found after a mention A game in Zzap issue 49 on page 3 – listed as … Continue reading →
A quick news post to highlight that System 3 have launched a new Kickstarter to release a special Last Ninja collection on various platforms including PS5, PS4, Switch and PC. Why are we reporting this? Well, the Diamond Ultimate Collection … Continue reading →
Missing for 35 years, a preview of the long lost Hydrogenese on the Commodore 64 has finally been recovered by CBA/SCS+TRC. A brilliant early look at what could have been an amazing space shooter! In addition to the shooter part … Continue reading →
1987 Keypunch Software Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore 64, Atari 400/800, Apple II and PC A very short entry for a title that was advertised within the manual of Aliants at the very end. Time Capsule was listed as “Coming Soon” … Continue reading →
Thanks to Andrew Braybrook, rare prototype Paradroid screens on the Commodore 64 (including early unused “fishbone” designs) were preserved for the excellent Graftgold book by Retro Fusion Books. Many didn’t make it inside, but thanks to Ste Day, here is … Continue reading →
1989 Mastertronic Platforms: ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 A short entry for a Mastertronic title that never was called Planet 10 – a late title that was due for release back in 1989. It is thanks to a great article … Continue reading →
Following on swiftly from the amazing recovery of Monster Muncher on the VIC-20, we now have the Commodore 64 edition of Stargate by Atarisoft for you. A long lost development by Tom Griner which has been part of our search … Continue reading →
1983 Spectrum Games Platform: Commodore Vic 20 Monster Muncher was a simple Pac Man clone due for release on the Commodore Vic 20 by Spectrum Games back in 1983, and was fully advertised too. The ZX Spectrum version was known … Continue reading →
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