Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 607
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’s that time of the year again. The Xmas update of Games That Weren’t is now launched, with plenty of findings and new materials, including: ‘PUTTY’ – Found and released! ‘UNDEAD’ – Fully recovered and added ‘PULSE’ – A new … 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
1997 Binary Emotions Platform: Commodore Amiga Described as a thinking man’s shoot-em-up, Gun Fury was a late Amiga release that was due from Binary Emotions, and to be published under the Guildhall Leisure label in 1997. The aim of the … Continue reading
1984 Parker Brothers Platform: Commodore 64 Not quite a GTW64 entry, but an earlier build of the released Gyruss (a brilliant Konami arcade conversion) for the C64 – recovered thanks to preservationist Ken Van Mersbergen. This prototype dated 2nd May … 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
Just seeing all the Halloween posts today, I wondered if there were that many Halloween/Horror related games in the GTW archive, so decided to have a bit of a delve and was quite surprised just how many cancelled titles there … Continue reading
1994 Digital Illusions / Psygnosis Platforms: Commodore Amiga and SEGA MegaDrive Recently we reported on a lost SEGA MegaDrive conversion of Benefactor, which the press had wrongly attributed screenshots from another game called Hardcore. Hardcore itself was a fantastic looking … Continue reading
2001 Delsyd Software Platform: AmigaOne Initially there were big plans with Delsyd Software, with a team of 8 people, a hope to develop a host of new software for the Commodore Amiga during some dark days. When the team moved … Continue reading
Although a few weeks old news now, with the addition just now of some previously unseen development materials, we thought it would be worth mentioning news on the main site about the up and coming new development. That’s right, with … Continue reading
1989 Eldritch the Cat Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and PC As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus content to … Continue reading
198? Guido Henkel Platform: Commodore Vic 20 Hellowoon was a graphic text adventure that was released on the Atari ST and C64 around 1987 by Ariolasoft, and was written by Guido Henkel. In an interview on Atarilegend.com, Guido reveals that … Continue reading
1993 Software 2000 Platform: Commodore Amiga A short entry for a graphic text adventure sequel for the Commodore Amiga, and due for release by Software 2000 in 1993. Hexuma: Das Auge Des Kal was released to some positive reviews, and … Continue reading
1983 Melbourne House Platform: Commodore Vic 20 This came as a bit of a shock when Chris Poacher first highlighted on the Vic 20 Facebook group that Melbourne House had advertised a Vic 20 version of Hungry Horace in Personal … 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
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