Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 10
For the past year, we have been preserving Archer Maclean’s legacy, saving his source code and various design notes. You can see some of our examples here of recent work as we start to take a look at prototypes and … Continue reading
1987 Archer Maclean / System 3 / Activision Platform: Commodore 64 In late 2023, Games That Weren’t was tasked with trying to preserve all of the late Archer Maclean’s work disks – including Atari and C64 formatted disks. At the … Continue reading
Sorry for the lack of updates recently everyone – i’ve been really swamped on another project recently, but we have been preparing for our annual Christmas update, where we have a few bits and pieces for you as well as … Continue reading
As part of our Christmas 2024 GTW64 update – our next post isn’t quite unreleased games material, but are a set of yet unpreserved Polish games that were released in 1994 and have been preserved thanks to Marcin ‘Tenchi’ Świętoniewski. … Continue reading
Yet another magazine showing screenshots of one of our favourite titles, but with graphics not ever gracing the final game. Take a look at the screenshots in November 1987’s edition of Commodore User magazine below (scans thanks to Mort!) and … Continue reading
1986 Archer Maclean / System 3 Platform: Commodore 64 (Atari to come) In late 2023, Games That Weren’t was tasked with trying to preserve all of the late Archer Maclean’s work disks – including Atari and C64 formatted disks. At … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1985 Artic Computing Rugby sims have always been underrepresented in the computer gaming market. Football sims have dominated Europe, while in the USA its American Football that has dominated. It doesnt help that … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1989 Microstyle Due to come out on the C64 in 1989, International Soccer Challenge was one of several games due for release by Microstyle in the 1989/90. ISC was also released on the … Continue reading
1989 Cinemaware Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore 64, SEGA Mega Drive A pretty famous Cinemaware title which was originally released on the Amiga and PC, but also had other versions planned that never saw the light of day. The Commodore 64 … Continue reading
1983 SEGA Platforms: Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit and Commodore Vic 20 (Probably C64 too) Ixion is an intriguing arcade title that was due for release from SEGA back in 1983, and was based on Zaxxon’s hardware, even though you … Continue reading
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