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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

Beverly Hills Cop unused assets (c64)

Posted: , last updated: by Frank Gasking

Many thanks to Dave Peacock, who recently recovered the following graphical assets for Beverly Hills Cop on the C64 from his work disks.

It seems that at somepoint, Michael Owens took over graphical duties on the C64 – leaving Dave to concentrate on the Spectrum and Amstrad versions.

Here you can find an unused car dashboard and steering wheel – which was probably meant for the 3D driving section which was dropped from the C64 edition. If anything else turns up, we’ll add it here.

dashboard steering-wheel

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Atari ST protos recovered from Mark R. Jones disks

Posted: , last updated: by Frank Gasking

Over the last week, various prototypes have been saved from a bunch of disks which were found by Mark R Jones, which include the following (clickable links to Atari Mania pages):

Some of the demos were recovered by Mark himself, and the rest were salvaged by the guys at Atari Mania, who have now made all the prototypes available for download (after Mark gave the thumbs up). Fantastic work to all involved!

Starquake 2 is arguably the star of the show in the recoveries, and shows a very promising early demo in action. Unfortunately it was cancelled after both Mark and Paul Hughes were called up to work on Flood 2 – which you can read more about here.

It is hoped that Flood 2 could actually be next on the list, with a demo disk in the hands of Paul Hughes which hopefully still reads after all this time.

Check them out via the links above!

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Last for June – QA game recovered + more!

Posted: by Frank Gasking

Another GTW64 update which includes:

QA text adventure game fully recovered and preserved

QA!

3 new entries added:

Octopussy, Rent-a-cop Reloaded, System 15000 sequel

15 other entries updated:

Includes many credit fixes, a full version of James Fly added and more!

Alloyrun, Aurum, Babylon, Balls Of The Scrolling Thunder, Dynablaster, Empire Strikes Back, Hydrogenese, James Fly, Outrun Europe, Shove, Star of Africa, Toi Acid Game, Twin Balls, Woodshoot, Zwei Bereten

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Aurum (c64) full game recovered and translated!

Posted: , last updated: by Frank Gasking

A long lost John Vanderaart game called Aurum has been found and recovered via a chance copy from a party back in the 80’s and preserved. Not only has it been preserved, but the past few months have seen a painstaking translation job done on the game before releasing it today.

aurum3

A great graphic text adventure, which is well worth checking out! A huge shame it never got released, but here it is now! Enjoy!

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/aurum/

EDIT – Dutch original now included in the downloads. Stupidly forgot to include it first time!

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