Welcome to Games That Weren't, a site dedicated to news around the world about unreleased games, incomplete games or prototype games and findings. As well as news, reviews and features, we have various platform specific archive projects with downloads and more in-depth reviews and interviews. Please feel free to browse and also use our forum to get in touch and help with our quest to document and preserve all that is currently lost.
Keeping up with the updates, more entries added and various updates (each entry includes details of what has changed). See below for details:
Heart Of Yesod, Monstics Mystery 2, C64GS cartridge titles
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes, Gremlins, Leaving Teramis, Milk Tray Game, Nighthunter, Stargate Legacy, The Seven Gates Of Jambala
Keeping up the updates for March, we have the following updates for you:
Flight Deck 2, Heebie Jeebies, Lusitania, Mega Twins, Orcus, Viking Child
I’ve been chatting to two guys called Simon and Ekkehard, who used to develop a lot of Vic 20 games back in the day.
In recent times, they had tried to recover their long lost work – but were having troubles doing so. Ekkehard finally got hold of a Vic 20 recently and managed to get his and Simon’s works preserved.
For more details and downloads for Simon’s game ‘Dudu’ and all of Ekkehard’s currently preserved works, check out the following links:
http://firepunchd.tumblr.com/post/80874300326/long-lost-first-vic20-84-game-found-an-old
http://blogs.newphoria.de/2014/03/27/some-of-my-vic-20-games/
Thanks to Stoo Cambridge for passing on his last remaining copy for preservation, Battle Ball has been finally recovered and released. This was due to be released on the Power House label, but sadly went under before it could be sold. Grab it from here:
In addition to that we have the following updates:
Play and Learn series, Restrictor, Shadowgate
We are pleased to announce that Games That Weren’t will have a display at Play Blackpool this 3rd and 4th May.
In collaboration with Andy Brown of Replay Events, we have helped pick a number of games for various consoles and computers which never saw a commercial release and will be available for people to play and check out.
For more details, check out:
http://www.playblackpool.com/games-that-werent-feature-revealed/
Another GTW64 update which includes:
Amazon Tales, Hangman, Ultimate Stunt Boat Challenge
Device for Alien Destruction, Microprose Soccer V1, Star Tech Games
Another GTW64 update which features a new entry thanks to Mark Wilson, and a set of tunes intended for the game. In addition – Arbitrator has had a set of tunes submitted by Mark which were also intended for the game.
Finally Ian Coog has provided SID tune rips for both Castle Boy and Starburst (as well as Arbitrator just moments ago), which we have added to all entries.
Thanks to Mark Wilson, the GEMS compilation pack has been digitally preserved, which includes 2 previously unreleased full games and also a far more complete version of Starburst (with previously unheard tunes by Andy Brown). This update also includes a new entry and a few updates thrown in to boot!
The latest issue of the free C64 fanzine, RESET has been released, which features a new regular Games That Weren’t section. This month covering Genesis’ Spellcast game.
Check out the magazine and download from here:
More collated updates from GTW64, with the following:
Flight Deck 2, The Light Corridor
Aurum, Crossbow, Habitat, Joust, Questerious, Sonic The Hedgehog, Star Tech Games, Stargate, Xamitlu
