GTW64 Christmas Update 2024
Our final update of 2024 for the Commodore 64 archive. This year has gone in a flash as always, as we pass our 25th year of Games That Weren’t. We hope to finish with a bit of a bang, and … Continue reading
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Keith Purkiss C64 Archive
Keith Purkiss was a regular games creator on the Commodore 64 back in the mid-late 80’s and early 1990s, and also created a few games under the pseudonym of Pakman for titles like Dragon Spirit and Little Puff. During his … Continue reading
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Insect Kill and Clean All
As part of our Christmas 2024 GTW64 update – our next post isn’t quite unreleased games material, but are a set of yet unpreserved Polish games that were released in 1994 and have been preserved thanks to Marcin ‘Tenchi’ Świętoniewski. … Continue reading
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IK+ design and development notes
For the past year, we have been preserving Archer Maclean’s legacy, saving his source code and various design notes. You can see some of our examples here of recent work as we start to take a look at prototypes and … Continue reading
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Team SAS
2003 Rage Bristol / Dangerous Games Ltd. Platforms: Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation 2 Also known as: Andy McNab – Team SAS As you’ll be aware, the games industry is a turbulent one, where projects (and even companies) can often … Continue reading
Posted in: Microsoft Xbox, Reviews, Sony PlayStation 2 Tagged: Preview available, Xmas2024 3 Comments
Cult
1997 Argonaut Platform: PC (the possibly others at a later date) Not long after working on an unreleased Saturn version of Alien Odyssey (a story for another day), Argonaut’s Martin Piper was assigned to another project which was to showcase … Continue reading
Games That Weren’t featured in 2025 Zzap!64 annual!
The 2025 Zzap!64 annual has arrived and looks great! The biggest surprise was the six page Games That Weren’t tribute feature by Ian Osborne, who had created the article that inspired it all. Talking about how some of the titles … Continue reading
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GTW Highlight No.20: Crytek’s Engalus PC demo located and examined
GTW Highlight No.20: In October, we located the long lost PC technical demo of Engalus. An early game from Crytek that was cancelled. We did a series of hi-res videos and showcased parts never seen before until now: https://gamesthatwerent.com/2024/10/engalus/ That … Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.19: Hydrogenese recovered on the Commodore 64
GTW Highlight No.19: September finally saw the long lost Hydrogenese on the Commodore 64 recovered by CBA/SCS+TRC. A brilliant early look at what could have been an amazing space shooter! Read more about the title at:https://gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/hydrogenese/
GTW Highlight No.18: Recovery of AtariSoft’s Stargate (Commodore 64)
GTW Highlight No.18: September was busy, and also saw the recovery of AtariSoft’s Stargate on the Commodore 64 at GTW thanks to Ken Van Mersbergen. Check out Tom Griner’s long lost conversion for yourself at: https://gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/stargate/
