Proprietor of Games That Weren't—a digital archive dedicated to unreleased and cancelled video games, founded in 1999. A passionate software preservationist, contributing to various projects, particularly for the Commodore 64. By day, working as a software/web developer.
Its now getting cold, but the updates are still coming – and quite a few this month in the Commodore 64 archive with the following: Alleykat rare non-playable demo preserved A nice little bonus to kick off the update thanks … Continue reading →
A lovely curiosity added to the archives today thanks to Marco Das, with the preservation of a very rare non-playable demo of Alleykat distributed by Hewson back in the day. It was likely for shops to showcase the game in … Continue reading →
Just a short post to add a slightly earlier prototype of Ariolasoft’s Bug Blitz which has been recovered thanks to Csaba Virag and Janos Szeitz (who digitized the turbo tape where it was found).
2000 Crytek Studios Platforms: PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sega Dreamcast, Microsoft XBox, Nintendo GameCube Our next entry into the Games That Weren’t archives was a significant project from the start of an engine that would lead to the eventual Far … Continue reading →
1985 Peter Tjernström Platform: ZX Spectrum Our next ZX Spectrum title in the archives is a missing Swedish adventure based on Lord of the Rings (and even named so in Swedish!), which came first in a competition. The creator was … Continue reading →
1987 Starvision Platform: Commodore Amiga A very short entry now for a title called Gigaball that was due for release by short-lived Danish software house – Starvision. The game was mentioned by founder Sören Grönbech in a feature in SOFT … Continue reading →
1990 Renovation Products Platform: SEGA Mega Drive Battle Mission was an exciting looking Operation Wolf style game that was due for release on the SEGA Mega Drive back in 1990 by Renovation Products. The game was based in the middle … Continue reading →
Thanks to Dave Moore, the long lost BBC Micro version of Mikro Gen’s Cruise Attack has now been preserved and made available. A neat little Missile Command clone which had seen release on the ZX Spectrum. For more details and … Continue reading →
Hi all – just a heads up that our contact form had a few issues over the weekend. If you have contacted us, then your message may have got lost. Apologies in advance! Should be all fixed now. Frank
1994 Mindscape Platform: Commodore Amiga CD32 MegaRace was an ambitious title due for release on the Amiga CD32 by Mindscape back in 1994, and was being developed by French programmers Cryo. Set in the future, the game revolves around a … Continue reading →
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