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.
Bertrand / Atarimania.com has been doing some amazing work recently, now recovering a large number of General Masters Corporation games for the Atari 8 bit platform. There’s a thread here over at AtariAge with more details and links: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/379007-general-masters-corporation NOTE … Continue reading →
A great article has been published regarding the unreleased Jack The Ripper for Amiga and with mock-ups for an abandoned online version for PC. Thanks to https://mastodon.world/@mr_creosote@dosgame.club for sharing. https://goodolddays.net/en/game/Jack-the-Ripper/ Any new info or snippets, we’ll add to the gallery … Continue reading →
1990 New Deal Productions Platform: Commodore Amiga Darkland is a very neat looking action game that was in production for the Commodore Amiga back in 1990 by New Deal Productions. It seems the company released a few titles, but then … Continue reading →
1986 Jens and Mattias Thorsen Platform: Sinclair QL Our first ever Sinclair QL title into the unreleased games archive which is Games That Weren’t, and thanks to Anonymous Contributor for the heads up. Much of the following is based from … Continue reading →
1985 Spinnaker Software/Windham Classics Platforms: Commodore 64 (GTW64 entry), Apple II and possibly DOS A short entry for a title highlighted by contributor Ricky Derocher, and which was due for release back in 1985 by Windham Classics – the same … Continue reading →
1989 Ocean Software France Platforms: Commodore Amiga and Atari ST Adidas Golden Shoe is not to be confused with Adidas Championship Football, but then perhaps it should be? (see below). The team and the graphics are completely different for both games … Continue reading →
1996 Mirage Software / S-Crew Platform: Commodore Amiga 500 Sadly with the decline of the Amiga in later years, it resulted in many titles being thrown onto the scrapheap. Joy of Killing was yet another casualty from all of this, … Continue reading →
1994 Atari Platform: Atari Jaguar Battlezone 2000 was one of the early planned titles for the Atari Jaguar and mentioned in various magazines over a period of time, but it was never to surface – or did it in some … Continue reading →
1990 Exponentia Platform: Commodore Amiga Elemental Force tells the story of a once-thriving city protected by a gem that ensured peace and stability. However, when a malevolent figure steals the gem and hides it across four elemental worlds (water, fire, … Continue reading →
1994 Origin Platforms: PC and 3DO Also known as: Chopper Assault In a winter CES feature in a 1994 issue of Power Play, a new game by Origin was reported as being in development. Chopper Attack was being developed by … Continue reading →
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