About Frank Gasking
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.Fifteen Starpath cassettes were discovered in Dallas, Texas last week, along with three Supercharger units. The Supercharger was in add-on module that expanded the RAM of the 2600 from 128 bytes to 6,272 bytes. This module, which connected to a … Continue reading →
1995 Krisalis Platform: Atari Jaguar Soccer Kid is your average platform affair where you control a young lad who plays soccer and uses his football skills to get around various levels. The story is that the World Cup has been … Continue reading →
2000 Thalamus Interactive Platform: Gameboy Colour With the amount of sequels emerging today after many years of the original being in the wilderness, its a wonder why no one has touched this classic Core title from the days long before … Continue reading →
1992 Atari Platform: Atari 7800 Klax never quite reached the heights of Tetris in popularity stakes, but it did entertain for a good few years for many. Think Columns, mix a bit of Tetris and out pops Klax! (who thought … Continue reading →
1984 Ultimate Play The Game Platform: BBC Micro Generally if we talk of unreleased games and Ultimate, instantly we think back to the infamous “Mire Mare” which has haunted us for many years. Instead we have had to make do … Continue reading →
1993 Virgin Games Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System Well, if you’ve been following the GTW Youtube channel we have, you probably have seen the clips to this already. You’ve probably even already got the roms (you naughty people!) and played it … Continue reading →
2004 Pieland / Taito Platform: Mobile Just a brief review to show you an unseen glimpse of a rather nifty Bubble Bobble conversion which never was on the Mobile platform. Mobile gaming became big business during the turn of the … Continue reading →
Great news, but thanks to the games author Simon Phillips, we have managed to preserve possibly one of the only copies and packages of the obscure Gamma Strike game set on the Commodore 64. What is particularly interesting about this … Continue reading →
After 25 years of being in the wilderness, Robotron 2084 for the Texas Instruments machine has been uncovered by TI enthusiast Bryan Roppolo for the TI-99/4A Videogame House website. A neat little conversion which can finally be savoured be sure … Continue reading →
After some digging around and very careful tape backing up, Jeff Minter has discovered and released a whole range of unseen Llamasoft games on the Vic 20 platform (and one on the Commodore PET). In maybe a weekend of preservation … Continue reading →