Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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.
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.
Still early days with no sound, but now to find out what happened. Check out the preview for now…
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:
Chainsaw Warrior, Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness, Jungle Book, Peter Pan, Terrific Land, The War of the Dragon, Unnamed Pacman clone, Vigilante V1
Bamboo, Bobby Yazz Show, Halo Jones, Heavy Barrel, Kid Niki, Lock On, Paddle Mania, The Terminator, Universal Military Simulator
Been a few weeks, so here is a new GTW64 update with some more bits and pieces added and updated:
Boxing Game, Snow Bros (unofficial), Up in the air
Argonavtica, Babylon, Commodore Format Demo, Cosmic Shock Absorber, F-86 Sabre Strike, Milk Tray Game, Parasol Stars, Pulsator, Quark, Ski Run, Software House, Space Raider, Super Contra, Unknown platformer
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
Vinny Mainolfi of C64 Endings has very kindly compiled a downloadable archive of all the current GTW64 downloads. This is in a friendly format which you can copy to your 1541 Ultimate or similar device to be able to browse and load as you wish.
Grab it from here:
http://www.c64endings.freeolamail.com/files/GTW1541U2archive24-05-13.zip
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!
More from GTW64, including a previously unseen platformer preview (in its early days) thanks to Joachim Wijnhoven. It is believed it could be the long lost Kid Saviour game by Roy Fielding… more on that soon! :)
Beavers, Biff V1, Darius +, Mega Twins, Mutant Zone, The Punisher
Yet more for May with the following additions and updates, including a great contribution from Jan Schulze on Bamboo and new entry Hydrogenese (prompting this update tonight):
Academy, Arsenal FC, Bamboo, Bubbles, Reach For The Moon, War Of The Worlds, Winter Camp Lost Level
And another update in quick succession … this time a slightly larger update with a number of new entries and updates (with new scans).
Basket Master V1, Mutant Zone, Reach For The Moon, T-Runner, Thundercats 3, Trick Ramp Crazy, Xecutor
Academy, Dreadnought, Lords Of The Rising Sun, Manhatten Dealers, Nimitz, Phantom Club, Rastan V1, Rebelstar, Scooby Doo V1, Thundercats 2, Time Scanner V1
The first update for May with the following new bits and bobs:
Agrophobia, Satar, Fun School Special – Paint and Create, Unknown Educational game
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