Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Hill 19 was to be a strategic action-shooter game, very similar to Ikari Warriors/Commando, but with more strategy involved. The player would control a team of characters (believed to be about 3), including Radio and Gunner. Sadly it was never to be though! Continue reading
Thanks to a kind loan by developer Lance Abson, our next Christmas update presents a set of source code and build disks from Sci-Fi (which was released by Digital Magic Software) for you to check out. One of the disks also contains some art assets used within development and may be early versions of artwork. Continue reading
Mister Bug (aka Mr. Bug) is an unreleased Lady Bug-inspired arcade clone for the Commodore Amiga, developed during the early 1990s by Dutch coder Guido Gouweloos together with friends William van de Coolwijk and Jan van Rosmalen. Continue reading
One of our next Christmas updates is the release of two late Dropzone prototypes for the Nintendo Game Boy original. These were recovered from the archive of the late Archer Maclean and found within a set of backup disks. Continue reading
Our next update is a special recovery of Tork for GameBoy Advance, approximately 60-70% complete (with no sound) and lots of levels. An impressive conversion, with Nebulus style and other 3D levels throughout – sadly never to see completion. Enjoy!
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2020/12/tork/ Continue reading
How can you possibly squeeze a 32-bit PlayStation CD ROM game into a small Game Boy Color Cartridge? Well, HotGen would attempt to do just that with a conversion of Resident Evil in mid-1999 and to make it as close as possible with similar 3D perspectives using scaled sprites.
There were delays and a lot of struggles to cram everything in. There were of course a number of restrictions and tweaks made along the way, but HotGen had a pretty decent stab at it and had a title which was certainly pushing the 8-bit hardware. Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.42: Then finally in November, a Polish edition of the Games That Weren’t book (with extra content) was released. Never in a million years did we imagine seeing a translated edition:
https://gknb.pl
And that is it for our highlights of December 2024 to November 2025. We’ll be back tomorrow with the start of our new Christmas updates for this year, before having a nice long break with family. A list of our highlights so far can be found below. Take care and we hope you enjoy what’s coming up!
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/tag/xmas2025/ Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.41: In November, we uncovered a surprise unknown 1991 #NES Super Kick Off conversion. Built off the original Kick Off code, it features updated titles + beginnings of an overhaul never finished. Check out the prototype for yourself here:
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/11/super-kick-off/ Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.40: In October, and thanks to LiqMatrix’s incredible preservation work (with support from @museumofplay and @wcnews), this very obscure 90s #PC gaming device was finally archived:
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/the-katt-games-master-keyboard-archive/ Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.39: In October, we had been busy working on recovering a lost 1989 EA game – not for PC Engine, but for the Amiga. Path of the Little Dragon is an early proto beat-’em-up done PC Engine style, and we shared several builds here:
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/path-of-the-little-dragon/ Continue reading
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