Here is a larger overview of recent comments on the Games That Weren’t website, so you can keep up to date with any recent input from others on our various entries.
Frank Gasking on Xtron: I think this must be the case Glenn. Too much of a co-incidence that there was a Galaga shooter with… Aug 13, 14:28- on Xtron: After doing a smidge of research on this game it appears the title it’s self was used for a vertical… Aug 13, 09:45
- on Graham Gooch World Class Cricket: Hi Vince – yeah, the game got released in 1993 with the packaging pictured, though for a strange reason they… Aug 12, 14:34
- on Graham Gooch World Class Cricket: I’m a bit nonplussed over this. Because I distinctly remember getting this in 1993 ? for the c64. I hate… Aug 12, 12:57
- on Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday SNES prototypes: Thank you so much Challenger – i’ve just updated the page with a summary of your findings and also YouTube… Aug 11, 21:38
- on Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday SNES prototypes: Thanks! And more news: I recorded the second level that includes earlier versions of the beta music, there’s a Jailhouse… Aug 11, 17:06
- on Bible Research Systems titles: Where can I find the installation codes for the products? Aug 10, 05:08
- on Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday SNES prototypes: That’s amazing, thank you Challenger for sharing your findings! I’m away for a little bit, but will update the page… Aug 8, 11:05
- on 40+ Years Lost: Stairway to the Stars (Commodore VIC-20) Finally Recovered!: I’ve added some text from Tommi here: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/VIC20.txt Aug 8, 08:15
- on Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday SNES prototypes: Hello! Thanks for the amazing discovery. This game was interesting for me since my childhood. I managed to record the… Aug 7, 17:54
- on Moonsweeper: Ah that’s amazing work by Ken, i’ll ping him a message to see about covering the story with him sometime… Aug 7, 12:01
- on Moonsweeper: Someone on AtariAge found a source code printout of the game and has been typing it in. He says it’s… Aug 7, 11:49
- on 40+ Years Lost: Stairway to the Stars (Commodore VIC-20) Finally Recovered!: I’ll reach out to Tom to see if they can reply in the comments. Aug 5, 11:01
- on Aladdin (NTSC) NES prototype: Thanks for the confirmation! I’ll update the post later today and also post out that this is a lost NTSC… Aug 5, 11:00
- on Alien Olympics: I’ve chased up for an update, so I hope to report back soon. I think the recovery of the full… Aug 5, 11:00
- on Aladdin (NTSC) NES prototype: This prototype seems to work on NTSC systems and the sound tempo is adjusted for NTSC. The final game doesn’t… Aug 5, 10:51
- on 40+ Years Lost: Stairway to the Stars (Commodore VIC-20) Finally Recovered!: I second this. Aug 4, 15:32
- on Alien Olympics: Three months were passed since this was posted, and the ROM still wasn’t available. Is the contact with the owner… Aug 4, 09:12
- on 40+ Years Lost: Stairway to the Stars (Commodore VIC-20) Finally Recovered!: I would be curious to learn more about the details of how Tommi Lempinen and Tom Roger Skauen were able… Aug 1, 17:34
- on Kick Off 3 SNES Prototypes: Thanks very much KungFuFurby for taking a look! I have updated the page with your comments and findings. If anything… Jul 30, 09:51
- on Kick Off 3 SNES Prototypes: The 08-03-94 build can be dated in between the known beta version and the final version: it has the menus… Jul 29, 19:14
- on Spellbound Dizzy Lite: Sadly nothing more at this stage. I’ve reached out to Fred and have offered to help preserve any 3″ disks… Jul 28, 12:35
- on Murder!: That’s a good point! Though I suspect if they had been sent a copy, they would have released it compared… Jul 27, 14:47
- on Murder!: I think it’s torturing us all, Frank. It’s so tantalising because a disk of the complete game could be out… Jul 26, 11:22
- on Codemasters CD Games Pack – Amstrad CPC Version: Blimey! Never realised until reading this in 2025 that it didn’t materalise on the Amstrad CPC. The January 1990 Amstrad… Jul 25, 13:30
- on Murder!: I should probably add some box scans at some point to the page to further torture myself about the game… Jul 25, 10:32
- on Murder!: Same box, certainly the same as the copy I had for the PC on 5.25″ that was originally thought to… Jul 24, 16:36
- on 8-bit Apocalypse: Right, all fixed – though i’m staggered and disappointed that I missed that when setting the page up. Sorry again… Jul 22, 02:16
- on 8-bit Apocalypse: Hi Chris, i’ve just realised I didn’t credit you!! Not sure what happened there, but please accept my apologies. Just… Jul 22, 02:10
- on Murder!: Hi Chris, thanks for getting in touch! I didn’t know about the French version being recovered, though i’m guessing the… Jul 22, 02:09
- on Murder!: Not sure if this is already known…but there was a French version of Murder for the Commodore Amiga game found… Jul 21, 14:23
- on The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt (NES) Prototypes: Lurch at the piano is definitely in the Genesis and SNES games with Gomez, in the “music room” with a… Jul 18, 16:12
- on Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday SNES prototypes: Apologies KungFuFurby – just corrected that now, and thank you for the additional information. Just added to the page! Jul 18, 09:16
- on Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday SNES prototypes: First off: PORKY, not SUBGAMES, is the one that fails to boot on SNES9X due to header detection problems. Secondly…… Jul 17, 23:04
- on Tip Off: Sounds about right, given that I can use the D-Pad to move one of the players around. Jul 17, 18:24
- on Tetris V1: Thanks for sharing Sean – do you recall seeing this earlier edition of the game with the different font/graphics and… Jul 17, 17:40
- on Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday SNES prototypes: I think its going to need a patch – I had to enter the code as an Action Replay cheat… Jul 17, 17:38
- on Tetris V1: The first version of Tetris in the U.S. was produced by Sean Barger and released by Spectrum Holobyte for DOS,… Jul 17, 16:01
- on Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday SNES prototypes: Any chance we can get a fixed SUBGAMES rom? No clue how to fix it myself haha Jul 17, 15:20
- on Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday SNES prototypes: Thanks KungFuFurby, and for all your deep diving into the prototypes and sharing. I’ve updated the page with a summary… Jul 17, 12:31
- on Tip Off: Thanks for investigating KungFuFurby! So is it essentially close to what we have already that is running, or are the… Jul 17, 10:10
- on Tip Off: I investigated the Tip-Off ROM that you marked as crashing. It does boot, only to reset. I came to a… Jul 17, 06:38
- on Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday SNES prototypes: SUBGAMES does not boot because it is trying to call code in WRAM that is not initialized. This is done… Jul 17, 06:35
- on Prince Of Darkness: Hi Michael – great to hear from you. That would be amazing to see some screenshots of the game and… Jul 13, 18:07
- on Huxley: The Dystopia: I remember reading about this in Game Informer magazine in 2006. Was super hyped then always wondered what happened to… Jul 12, 22:34
- on Prince Of Darkness: I’m the programmer for Prince Of Darkness. I can probably add a few screenshots and history about the game. When… Jul 12, 04:22
- on Runestone: Thanks Mat! I’ll update the page quickly – thanks very much for asking him! I assume its therefore Chris’ work… Jul 10, 00:13
- on Runestone: I asked Jon about this GTW entry. He doesn’t know who Simon Jay is, but said that’s definitely his work… Jul 8, 13:15
- on ShockWave: I definitely don’t recall the timelines…but I do know we got the Sega hardware and did start learning how to… Jul 4, 17:07
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: Thanks Gaz – I think there’s a good chance there was inspiration, though it was more of a copy of… Jul 4, 13:37
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: What an amazing find, Frank. It gives hope that other sensational finds are still out there too. The game itself… Jul 4, 11:58
- on Platoon early differences (C64): They look pretty cool, still, and that game was really awesome – spent quite some time completing it over and… Jul 4, 09:12
- on ShockWave: Keep in mind that back then, the runway for articles in print magazines was easily 6 to 12 weeks. So… Jul 4, 09:09
- on Liverpool FC: Ah that would be this one: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/liverpool-v1/ It exists too – hoping in time the developer will dig out their… Jul 4, 08:50
- on Liverpool FC: I’m shocked. Your Commodore reviewed a completely different version (side scrolling), but the dashboard colors look like those of the… Jul 4, 07:36
- on Mirage: Glad you all liked it! I don’t know why Codemasters didn’t take it on, maybe they didn’t test it enough… Jul 3, 20:22
- on Dominion: a friend of mine did a longplay of this recovered game, hope it wouldn’t be considered spam! https://youtu.be/TVMW3BOaiqU sadly, no… Jul 3, 14:43
- on Pride & Prejudice: Thanks for the heads up Mister Ree! I’ll take a look a bit later today. Jul 3, 09:37
- on Pride & Prejudice: It’s the PC version, not the C64 version, but if anyone’s interested I believe I’ve found this game over at… Jul 3, 04:41
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: That is fantastic Martin! I had a quick look last night for anything unused and completely missed the head sprites.… Jul 2, 16:23
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: Had a look at the track routine and found unused Nigel Mansell graphics that animate. https://youtu.be/trIsPqKfXmg Jul 2, 15:47
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: Apologies – PDS stands for Programmers Development System which was used by many developers during latter years of the C64.… Jul 2, 09:32
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: Wasn’t quite sure what this meant. ” but we were stunned to find the entire PDS source code back up… Jul 1, 20:40
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: there are tools to help with reverse engineering , so it’s not impossible.. and a bit less time consuming doing… Jul 1, 11:55
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: No worries :) Just had another quick go (now that I’m temporarily free of work commitments) and I can confirm… Jul 1, 11:11
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: Ah amazing! So its just the visual markers missing to indicate the pitstop like on the NES version? Thanks Hank,… Jul 1, 09:49
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: It’s unlikely we’ll be able to release the source, but if anything changes – then we’ll put it up here.… Jul 1, 09:48
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: Just a quick update to my last comment – I’ve had a quick go – pitstops ARE there. At least… Jul 1, 09:48
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: Fantastic, do you think the source will ever see the light of day? Jul 1, 09:44
- on Nigel Mansell World Championship: AMAZING! Just in time for the Silverstone GP too! I’m supposed be training engineers on some systems stuff in half… Jul 1, 09:29
- on Commando 86: I think you’re right Alfonso – more than likely it was just a quick mock-up to advertise the game in… Jun 30, 09:46
- on Commando 86: “It seems adverts snuck out though showcasing what the cover would have looked like” True, I recall seeing that advert… Jun 30, 08:51
- on S.U.B: Many thanks Timber, just updated the page and added some of the other reviews for now too. Jun 28, 10:30
- on 8-bit Apocalypse: This looks like an expanded universe of their released 8BitBoy game. Like the spooky theming. Jun 27, 13:15
- on S.U.B: There was also a review of the DOS version in the German magazine “PC-Player” 1994-05 (on page 78) with 37% Jun 27, 08:13
- on Power Crystal: If its the person I think it is, Andy W and I went to his house to pick up the… Jun 25, 20:12
- on Chopper Land: I know that A.R. Softwear released at least three of the games in that picture: Dots and Boxes Nightmare Park… Jun 24, 21:25
- on Canadian Tire: Carts of Fury flash game preserved: Greetings Frank, It appears that a Russell Challenger created some of the concept art for this game and has posted… Jun 24, 13:56
- on Chopper Attack: I just found out that this game is Hi-Roller Battle on Pioneer LaserActive. Jun 21, 15:34
- on Mindstone: That is fantastic work Professor Chaos! Thank you so much! Just updating the page now and will ping Andrew a… Jun 20, 10:15
- on Bob Harris and the Secret of the Killer Bees: I think it’s funny he mentioned the Killer Bees! score verification code. I actually have one of the high scores… Jun 20, 00:54
- on Mindstone: “Pennysoft” must be a misspell from Soft magazine. They clearly meant “Pennsoft” without “y”. I’ve looked them up last September,… Jun 19, 23:16
- on The Last Stuntman: That is a fantastic spot RH! It’s the same graphics! Which means either the level was being developed by a… Jun 19, 12:01
- on The Last Stuntman: This looks a lot like the public domain mini game “Parachute Joust” on the Amiga, which was quite a lot… Jun 19, 11:11
- on Elevator: Thanks Martin for the details and also link to the preview! I’ll update the page now, and hopefully Craze will… Jun 15, 15:45
- on Elevator: This game was coded by Craze/nofx (Kristian) and a super early preview can be found here https://csdb.dk/release/?id=33263. Shortly after joining… Jun 15, 15:08
- on Nigel Mansell’s World Championship Racing NES prototype: Hi Hank – we’ll tell the full story, and i’ll probably do a short commentary video as well. It has… Jun 15, 14:52
- on Star Trek: A World For All Seasons: Ah that’s awesome – I will post a reply there to see if Andrew’s interested in sharing some memories. Thanks… Jun 15, 14:50
- on Star Trek: A World For All Seasons: I was posting about it on bluesky and just got a message from Andrew Probert about it: “Your speculation is… Jun 15, 14:39
- on Nigel Mansell’s World Championship Racing NES prototype: That’s cool, the fact we have anything at all is amazing, especially since it’s being fixed up too. Is there… Jun 15, 11:13
- on Star Trek: A World For All Seasons: Ah that is amazing, thank you Portalream! I think that does indeed give evidence that he was involved, especially if… Jun 15, 11:00
- on Nigel Mansell’s World Championship Racing NES prototype: Haha, no worries Hank! So yeah, it seems the C64 edition was being based off the NES edition in terms… Jun 15, 10:58
