Welcome to Games That Weren't!

We are an Cancelled & Unreleased Video games archive with prototypes, developer history and assets for many computers and consoles of all ages. A non-profit large archive dedicated to preserving lost games that were never released to the public. Sharing history and stories from the developers, assets and more before it is too late. GTW has been preserving lost video game history since 1999.

Please Browse our archive and discover the many entries that we host for many different platforms.

Latest News and Posts

GTW Highlight No.20: Crytek’s Engalus PC demo located and examined

Posted: by Frank Gasking

GTW Highlight No.20: In October, we located the long lost PC technical demo of Engalus. An early game from Crytek that was cancelled. We did a series of hi-res videos and showcased parts never seen before until now:

https://gamesthatwerent.com/2024/10/engalus/

That concludes our 20 reflective posts at Games That Weren’t. Tomorrow, we will begin the first of our final updates to sign off 2024, starting with a lost prototype PC game.

To look back at all our reflective posts over the past few weeks, please visit: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/tag/xmas2024/

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GTW Highlight No.17: Recovery of Monster Muncher (VIC-20)

Posted: by Frank Gasking

GTW Highlight No.17: In September, we recovered and saved Matthew Smith’s long lost Commodore VIC-20 game Monster Muncher (missing 41 years). It was miraculously spotted in the Retro Computer Museum and was quite a recovery:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2024/09/monster-muncher/

A fixed version was then later done by Andy Hewitt, making the game fully playable as intended: https://hewco.itch.io/monster-muncher

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Atari Addict released, including GTW feature!

Posted: by Frank Gasking

Atari Addict landed this weekend, and David Crookes has done an amazing job putting this #Atari special together with many different features across many platforms. We also had the honor of writing the unreleased games segment too!

To order, visit: https://pixel.addict.media/shop/atari-addict-magazine

Posted in: Atari, Atari 2600 / Atari VCS, Atari 400/800/XL, Atari 7800, Atari Falcon, Atari Jaguar, Atari Jaguar CD, Atari Lynx, Atari ST, News | Leave a comment

GTW Highlight No.12: The Godfather breakthroughs (SEGA Master System)

Posted: , last updated: by Frank Gasking

GTW Highlight No.12: June was certainly busy, and we did a huge investigation into The Godfather on the Sega Master System + others. It vanished after a rough first cut that wasn’t up to scratch. We made some big breakthroughs in terms of who worked on it:

https://gamesthatwerent.com/2024/06/the-godfather/

Posted in: Atari ST, Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore Amiga, GTW64 news, News, SEGA Master System | Tagged: | Leave a comment