Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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We have one last surprise update for 2017, including a preview of an extremely promising game which could still hopefully be finished and taken out of GTW64. The coder still open to help and suggestions for continuing – can you … Continue reading
Well, it’s pretty much coming up to 15 years soon since GTW64 first went online and began to recover many a lost title. One thing we haven’t really done is sat back and reflected on some of the best findings … Continue reading
The final Fun School game in the series on the C64 has finally been saved from obscurity after a recent online store finding of the game by GTW64. The game has now been fully preserved and submitted to Gamebase 64 … 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
Penguin Tower on the Commodore 64 was recently finished off after almost 30 years. Developer Jani Hirvo has just informed Games That Weren’t that he has released all of the source code for the game on github! https://github.com/mokdevel/PenguinTower_c64
Another GTW64 update with some more new titles and updates, including the finding of Pimple Panic, which you can now download! Look out also for another long lost Rainbow Arts title which we are about to bring in its final … Continue reading
Platoon was a superb movie tie-in game from Ocean Software back in 1988 with some excellent varied levels that captured the essence of the movie. Thanks to contributor Martin Inter, here are some slightly earlier Commodore 64 screens which show … Continue reading
A nice big update for June, which includes the full preservation of Pluff, which has been missing for many years. Also included are two home brew titles which were done back in the day by a game creator and long … Continue reading
2023 Silvan Reinhold / Psytronik Software Platform: Commodore 64 If you haven’t seen Polar Bear in Space already, then you are missing out on a wonderful shooter/platformer which has elements of Wizball, Retrograde and even Dropzone with the explosion of … Continue reading
A second update of the year and our first real big recovery so far! Populous C64 conversion attempt recovered and released! Populous 3 new entries added Blue Sun, Telmar’s Gold, Wendellwood Estates 10 updates added All Terrain Gardener, Arcade Classics … Continue reading
Hi all – just a heads up that I may not get to process any site comments or submissions right away, as a close family member has been admitted to hospital. I’ll try and respond and update as soon as … Continue reading
Not quite unreleased news, but an improved A06 version of The Quill and Illustrator for the Commodore 64 has recently been preserved, after it being realised that it hadn’t yet been done. Version A05 has been around for a long … Continue reading
The latest issue of the free C64 fanzine, RESET has been released, which features a new regular Games That Weren’t section. This month covering Genesis’ Spellcast game. Check out the magazine and download from here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=128792
The latest issue of the free C64 fanzine, RESET has been released, which features a full GTW article on System 3’s Fuzzball game. Check out the magazine and download here: http://reset.cbm8bit.com/?dir=issue3
A very quick addition to the archives, with a unused loading picture by Oliver Lindau that was meant for Rolling Ronny on the C64. And also recently a sprite that was never used (sprites btw were apparently designed in … Continue reading
First update for August, and an almost complete Scooby Doo game has arrived from nowhere thanks to the game’s creator via the Lemon64 forums… Check it out at … Scooby Doo 4 other new entries added Aircat, Jonny Quest, The … Continue reading
There are some nice surprises that turn up from time to time in the C64 scene, and one recent one has been the surfacing of the Tape / Disk masterer of Edge/Softek’s conversion of Shao Lin’s Road on the C64. … Continue reading
A quick GTW64 update from us to present the first piece of Search For Sharla seen for over 20 years in the shape of the end sequence, thanks to the work of Andy Roberts and Vinny Mainolfi. In addition to … Continue reading
Yet another PAL developments game has been fully recovered and released, and its another full game. Thanks to sterling work by Dean Hickingbottom to recover the game from his C64 disks and recompile it after 26 years, we are proud … Continue reading
Not seen even by Simon since 1989, we are proud to present the infamous road routine which Simon produced to prove a point to Mark Kelly after seeing Turbo Outrun. It’s not playable, but was all that was produced and … Continue reading
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