I’m a huge Dizzy fan, so to hear of any unreleased works by The Oliver Twins is always quite exciting. Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni, the following game was brought to my attention. Excalibur was to be a top down adventure … Continue reading →
A short entry to what could be a complete series of extensions for Whole Brain Spelling by Sublogic that were actually released. Just recently in November 2021, Allan Pinkerton helped to preserve the Whole Brain Spelling – General Word List … Continue reading →
A quick post to highlight another C64 title preserved, thanks to the efforts of Allan Pinkerton, who has been slowly helping to recover a large number of unpreserved educational titles for the platform. Today we see the release of Whole … Continue reading →
Our next entry into the archive come thanks to Gareth Pitchford, who flagged up this currently missing text adventure game by Graham R. Webber. The game was actually published by Satchel, who were a software arm of Angle Park Computing … Continue reading →
Our next entry into the archive come thanks to Gareth Pitchford, who flagged up this currently missing homebrew text adventure game by Derek Doran. The game was advertised in Commodore User magazine back in 1986, but although their game Prime … Continue reading →
1991 Nick Pelling Platform: Commodore Amiga Frak! is an absolute classic on the BBC Micro, starring caveman Trogg as you navigated across various trecharous levels with your trusty yo-yo. It is no surprise then to learn that there had been … Continue reading →
With thanks to contributor Deniz Turkmen, who commented on Spy vs Spy 4 that he had once seen an earlier version of Spy vs Spy 3 from a BBS. Sure enough, within Gamebase64 was an early preview which was seemingly … Continue reading →
2005 SCi Platforms: Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox A short entry to cover an earlier incarnation of Eidos Iteractive’s Urban Chaos: Riot Response. The game began life as a sequel to SWAT: Global Team Strike, before evolving into Roll … Continue reading →
Although the main purpose of Games That Weren’t is to preserve unreleased games, we occasionally try and share preservation efforts of ones which were actually released, but were extremely rare and yet to be preserved. Today we share preservation of … Continue reading →
A short entry for a title that may or may not have had a C64 release under way. Pixie and Dixie was based on the Hanna Barbera cartoon and was to be a late 8-bit release it seems. The game … Continue reading →
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