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.
1993 Software 2000 Platform: Commodore Amiga A short entry for a graphic text adventure sequel for the Commodore Amiga, and due for release by Software 2000 in 1993. Hexuma: Das Auge Des Kal was released to some positive reviews, and … Continue reading →
By complete fluke, we’ve matched last month’s tally of updates, with 1 new entry and 20 updates for the C64 GTW archive. This includes a rare screenshot from the C64 edition of D-Day and also an original TAP image preserved … Continue reading →
Only a few copies were ever sold of adidas Championship Football in France by Ocean Software. A handful of copies were known to exist, but were yet to be preserved. This changed on the 22nd March thanks to Galahad, with … Continue reading →
1997 Binary Emotions Platform: Commodore Amiga Described as a thinking man’s shoot-em-up, Gun Fury was a late Amiga release that was due from Binary Emotions, and to be published under the Guildhall Leisure label in 1997. The aim of the … Continue reading →
Although digital preservation has been happening for quite some time now, there are still many games actually released that are still very much at large. Often perhaps because some of these titles didn’t sell in great numbers in the early … Continue reading →
A new recovery thanks to Retroboy – an unfinished and early bullfighting game for the C64 called ‘La Venganza del Toro’. This has been added today into the GTW64 archives, which you can now check out for yourselves at https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/la-venganza-del-toro/ … Continue reading →
1992 Imagitec Platform: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC Dwagons is a game which is not too dissimilar in style to the classic Pengo, with the concept of being able to push blocks. The blocks come in various different forms, … Continue reading →
1993 Images Software Platform: Commodore Amiga (+ potentially others later on) Also known as: Monkey Business It was recently that team member Grzegorz Antosiewicz highlighted an abandoned Amiga game which had completely passed me by last year when artist Glenn … Continue reading →
1995 Damage Platform: Commodore Amiga 1200 Also known as: Day of Wrath As well as titles you may well remember, we try to also cover titles which may have passed you by. Often due to how late they were to … Continue reading →
A shorter month, so our monthly update to the GTW64 archives has come round fast. This month we have 1 new entry and a total of 20 entries updated overall. Thanks to our contributors for their help and enjoy! 1 … Continue reading →
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