Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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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
I can’t really add this to GTW64 as a proper entry, but I thought i’d share – as i’m pretty happy at this particular personal finding. After doing some preservation work with the Maverick v5 tool on a problematic disk, … Continue reading
A short GTW64 update to keep things moving and show some quick updates that have been going on. Nuclear Nick recovered and released After 30 years of being missing, a preview build of Nuclear Nick has been recovered by Peepo … Continue reading
Another one for the collection, but spotted in an issue of Your Commodore was a preview of Pitfighter with a slight difference in the game area. The difference is merely the inclusion of a yellow trousered main character for Kato … Continue reading
A few bits and pieces have come through right at the death of 2012 – which includes details of another Amiga to C64 conversion that never was called: Leaving Teramis And also David Wightman helped us to confirm some more … Continue reading
Following on from the recent recovery of Total Recall V1 – we today take a detailed video look at the prototype, the story of its search and how it was found. Including highlighting of differences from the original Zzap!64 preview … Continue reading
It hasn’t been a title that we’ve been actively looking for, but it has been missing for a long time – not known if it was actually released. Well, thankfully it was released it seems in limited numbers and was … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives Dungeons and Dragons was a gaming phenomona that started in the 1970s when historial gaming enthusiasts, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, created their own rules to tabletop battlefield gaming and focused it on … Continue reading
This post came about after something interesting from RESET’s editor Kevin Tilley was sent through. Club Max Software club was an Australian ran software club that was fairly popular. They had a store which Kevin used to visit. What’s interesting … Continue reading
A lovely curiosity added to the archives today thanks to Marco Das, with the preservation of a very rare non-playable demo of Alleykat distributed by Hewson back in the day. It was likely for shops to showcase the game in … Continue reading
Just a quick post to put back up the Alligata Master disks and Maniacs of Noise SFX files that we had on the old site. It seemed a shame they were tucked away out of sight – so here they … Continue reading
Thanks to Ross Sillifant, Andrew Holdroyd gives some brief history about his C64/Vic 20 days and any released and unreleased works: “The Vic20 was the first computer I owned and learned my trade on it. The first wave of home … Continue reading
Andrew Morris has been allowing us to preserve some of his disks to show incomplete/unused materials to the world, and recently we have discovered the assets to the likes of Kikstart 2 and Cosmic Causeway and various others. This is … Continue reading
NOTE: (Frank – 03/09/21) I’ve updated this old 2012 post, as the link was broke. Another quick update with the recovery of a great icon driven adventure game called Angel Of Death 2. This is a very advanced preview with … Continue reading
Had another few more bits and pieces come through over the past week or so – so here is another digest of recent updates – including two new full games (Equinox + Soda Shop) that were recovered by Peepo, Tom … Continue reading
How can it be April already? Well, here’s another update anyway – and a lot of Rob Hubbard related mysteries solved as you will see, including another twist in the tale which is Thundercats! :-) 9 new entries added Colorasaurus, … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1988 Firebird In 1987 Firebird released Arcade Classics, a compilation of (wait for it) four classic arcade games, namely Space Invaders, Asteroids, Snake and Space Wars. It was neatly packaged with a front-end … Continue reading
Our next Christmas 2024 update sees Games That Weren’t take a look at a series of early concepts and prototypes from the late Archer Maclean’s disks. This includes the first ever look at concepts for an abandoned Atari/Commodore sequel to … Continue reading
1984-198? Archer Maclean Platforms: Commodore 64 Whilst going through Archer’s work disks, we found a few bits and pieces lurking on the disks, which might be unseen artwork or work that Archer has done. We’ll add to this page over … Continue reading
Just a very quick post to share a few pre-release versions of Hawkeye and Armalyte. Nothing to get too excited about, and the Hawkeye version has already been put out last year – just slightly under the radar. The purpose … Continue reading
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