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.
When contacting developers to ask about their unreleased games, we often send a barrage of questions to bombard them. Sometimes the answers are pretty short, but other times we can get some brilliant answers which often tell a great story … Continue reading →
After a few contributions recently and new info appearing – here is our latest update for GTW64. Includes some revelations regarding Nigel Mansell’s GP and also David Jolliff talks to GTW64 about R-Type – to almost complete the story on … Continue reading →
Following on from our recent Parallel Logic piece – I also recently got speaking with Paul Kubiszyn to find out more about XLCUS, which was a short lived company which was aiming to keep the C64 going. I only needed … Continue reading →
1991 Carleton Handley Platform: Amiga A huge thanks to both Carleton Handley and Vinny Mainolfi for passing on this abandoned prototype for us to put on the site which was for the Amiga platform. Vinny has been chatting with Carleton … Continue reading →
Something a little different from GTW, but I recently got speaking with Philip Boyce to find out more about Parallel Logic, which was a short lived company which he ran when still at school, which was aiming to keep the … Continue reading →
Thanks to Gaetano for highlighting which is something I hadn’t noticed before. In Zzap 64’s review of 19 Boot Camp Part 1, it seems they either reviewed an earlier build of the game, or they used screenshots provided/from a preview … Continue reading →
A huge thanks is required for Duncan Kershaw, who was recently clearing out and found a bunch of design docs and odds and ends. Rather than dump them, he very kindly asked us if we’d be up for scanning and … Continue reading →
Our first for September, which includes the following updates: 3 new entries added Football Game, Skweek, Space Action 2 Plus 13 updates added (See updates link in each for what has changed) Arthema, Body Slam, Car Wars, Dangerous Sports, Enduro … Continue reading →
Not really an unreleased game, but some bits and bobs that could be nice to save if they still exist. Looking at the preview screens in Zzap for the 3D Construction Kit, as well as an earlier editor kit, there … Continue reading →
Reading through some old Zzap’s when I spotted this intro screen from the preview of Chase HQ 2 on the C64. This screen apparently was meant for the intro sequence (accurately ported from the arcade), but looks like it was … Continue reading →
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