Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Another GTW64 update summary which includes: 3 new entries added Family Fish, Jailbreak, Nutland 15 updates added Chuck Rock, Cops And Robbers, Gauntlet 3, Jimmy’s Grandprix, Liverpool, Mad Max Game, Pool Game, Sophistry, Super Wonderdog, The Blues Brothers, Unnamed CRL … Continue reading
The first update for May with the following new bits and bobs: 4 new entries added Agrophobia, Satar, Fun School Special – Paint and Create, Unknown Educational game 1 update added Streethawk
A large update for July, including the Ball game – we have also been in touch with Andrew Rodger (thanks to Andrew Fisher), who has helped shed more light on the Robotronics titles as well as some new titles too. … Continue reading
Another GTW64 update which includes: 1 new entry added: Sleepwalker 10 updates added: 19 Boot Camp Part 2, Andy Rixon Game, Bubbles, Deadlock, Hareraiser 2, Otherworld, Rex, The Magic Roundabout, Thunderbirds, War Of The Worlds
More collated updates from GTW64, with the following: 2 new entries added Flight Deck 2, The Light Corridor 9 updates added (details of updates at the top of each review) Aurum, Crossbow, Habitat, Joust, Questerious, Sonic The Hedgehog, Star Tech … Continue reading
Thank you to everyone for their continued support to Games That Weren’t this past year, as we conclude with our yearly update (and larger than our usually monthly update). Plenty to digest and check out and hope you enjoy it! … Continue reading
It is that time of the year again, and another bumper update which has been building up. The big difference this year was the lack of a backlog, so all the materials here have been the result of further digging … Continue reading
The yearly tradition of a large GTW64 xmas site update continues, even if this year has been pretty shite overall. We kick off with the following updates for you: 41 new entries added A ton of new entries, mostly with … Continue reading
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment have yesterday made Habitat Open Source, by releasing all of the code on GitHub. Work has been going on since 2013 to try and preserve everything, and now the goal is to try … Continue reading
Thanks to Raffox for flagging this one up from the Gamebase 64 archives, but although we mainly deal with trying to find unreleased games or vastly different versions of a released game, we also like to examine and take a … Continue reading
Missing for 35 years, a preview of the long lost Hydrogenese on the Commodore 64 has finally been recovered by CBA/SCS+TRC. A brilliant early look at what could have been an amazing space shooter! In addition to the shooter part … 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
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
Something a little different for GTW, but Jonathan Kendall was a C64 developer who worked for Zeit Corp back in the 1990’s and played a major role on the Fun School titles – developing the database system for it. He … Continue reading
Great news, but collector Ken Van Mersbergen (known to many as Dutchman2000) has found and preserved the long lost AtariSoft conversion of Joust, which we have had an entry on for some time here. Ken got in touch with GTW … Continue reading
Games That Weren’t is proud to present the long lost AtariSoft conversion of Joust, which was due for release back in 1984. You can now download and play the game as originally intended. It is with massive thanks to Ken … Continue reading
We had a recent submission from Baracuda of a screen which is potentially related to the game Kayleth by U.S. Gold on the C64 in 1987. The question is whether it was intended for the game, or just a tribute … Continue reading
Keith Purkiss was a regular games creator on the Commodore 64 back in the mid-late 80’s and early 1990s, and also created a few games under the pseudonym of Pakman for titles like Dragon Spirit and Little Puff. During his … Continue reading
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