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 online since 1999, and long before that offline.

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

Latest News and Posts

GTW64 updates for 7th July

Posted: by Frank Gasking

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. Here are the updates in full…

7 new entries added

Castle Boy, Lemonoids, Shuttle, Starburst, Stratagos, Terravasion, Zuid

11 updates added

Ball, Cosmic Shock Absorber, Cyber Attack, Kid Saviour, Last Ninja V1, Mole Squash, Ski Run, Solaris, Spix, The War of the Dragon, Unknown Educational game

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GTW hosting costs and donations

Posted: , last updated: by Frank Gasking

Games That Weren’t is a freely ran project, 100% non-profitable and done in our own free time. To ensure minimum downtime, storing vast amounts of scans, downloads and information we unfortunately have to pay for hosting.

If you would like to help us to keep GTW and GTW64 running, then you are welcome to make a donation of any size by using the donation button on the side of every page (at the bottom, and out of the way), or via our Donation page.

Please note that donations only cover our hosting/domain costs, and that we remain a purely non-profit project. Each year we will try and raise £95 which covers our costs. Once we hit our target, no more donations will be accepted. More details can be found on our Donation page.

Thank you!

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Ball game preview recovered

Posted: , last updated: by Frank Gasking

Thanks to Joachim Wijnhoven, a long lost game called Ball by Dream Systems from 1989 has been recovered. This is a preview which comes with two separate files showing two different levels and some great presentation.

ball-5

Still early days with no sound, but now to find out what happened. Check out the preview for now…

Ball preview

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More GTW64 for June

Posted: by Frank Gasking

And so the updates continue. A lot of new entries, but also a number of updates with additional scans and bits from CCI, CU and ACE magazine:

8 new entries added

Chainsaw Warrior, Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness, Jungle Book, Peter Pan, Terrific Land, The War of the Dragon, Unnamed Pacman clone, Vigilante V1

9 updates added

Bamboo, Bobby Yazz Show, Halo Jones, Heavy Barrel, Kid Niki, Lock On, Paddle Mania, The Terminator, Universal Military Simulator

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Slightly Spooky (Amiga, Spectrum)

Posted: , last updated: by Alex Ross-Shaw

1993 Codemasters

Code – Colin Jones
Graphics – Keith Ross
Music – Allister Brimble (?)

This game is one of the rumoured unreleased 22 Codemasters games which one day we hope to track down and bring to you, like Codemasters should have done a long time ago.

This game was to be the sequel to Slightly Magic by Colin Jones, which Ian Gray converted from the Spectrum version. We guess that the game would have pretty much been more of the same using the same engine.

The Spectrum entry at the World of Spectrum website states that the game was a finished but unreleased game on the Amiga. We spoke to Colin Jones, who confirmed this and also confirmed that the 8-bit versions were already being cut back when he completed the Amiga version. Where Colin talks about 8-bit versions, we only know that allegedly the ZX Spectrum was started but never finished. Continue reading →

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Contact form issues

Posted: by Frank Gasking

It seems that there have been issues for some time with our contact form on the GTW site, with emails not getting sent for at least a few months. This is likely due to security updates on the hosting we are on, which we were unaware of. Things are now working again thankfully!

If you have sent any information to us via the contact form, and have not had a response – this is why i’m afraid. Our apologies to those who have therefore not had a response, and we ask if you could contact us again if you did have any information to submit!

Many thanks!

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