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About Frank Gasking

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.

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Dies Irae

Posted: 01-03-2023, last updated: 29-04-2025 by Frank Gasking

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 →

GTW64 February 2023 update

Posted: 27-02-2023, last updated: 30-04-2023 by Frank Gasking

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 →

Blockie: C64 game finished and released

Posted: 26-02-2023, last updated: 30-06-2023 by Frank Gasking

Richard Bayliss has been working hard the past few months to finish off an abandoned Columns clone which was infamously released into PD and onto Commodore Format’s covertape in an incomplete form around 30 years ago. This has now been … Continue reading →

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Access Denied

Posted: 22-02-2023, last updated: 30-06-2023 by Frank Gasking

1992 ICE Platform: Commodore Amiga + possibly others A very short entry until we can learn more, but Access Denied was a 3D game apparently programmed by the same people who did F-19 Stealth Fighter. If that is the case, … Continue reading →

Posted in: Commodore Amiga, Reviews | Tagged: No download available | Leave a comment

Shut In

Posted: 22-02-2023, last updated: 30-06-2023 by Frank Gasking

1992 Ocean Software Platform: Commodore Amiga + possibly others A very short entry until we can learn more, but this was to be yet another Ocean Software title that was due for release around 1992/1993 time for at least the … Continue reading →

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Bouncy Bat game

Posted: 15-02-2023, last updated: 30-06-2023 by Frank Gasking

1993 Miracle Games Platform: Commodore Amiga Miracle Games Team were ambitiously trying to do a number of developments at one stage for the Commodore Amiga, which also included a revival of Dick Special. Sadly many titles mentioned would never see … Continue reading →

Posted in: Commodore Amiga | Tagged: No download available | 2 Comments

Bertie’s Animal Kingdom

Posted: 08-02-2023, last updated: 30-06-2023 by Frank Gasking

2000 Applaud Platform: Commodore Amiga 1200 Our next entry is for a title which may well have been released, but in very low numbers, due to being quite late into the Amiga 1200’s life and an educational title (further limiting … Continue reading →

Posted in: Commodore Amiga | Tagged: Full game available | 4 Comments

GTW64 finds and more

Posted: 02-02-2023, last updated: 01-02-2023 by Frank Gasking

Thanks to the brilliant preservation work of Paladin of Genesis Project, and kindly passing his work over – we are proud to present a large list of educational game recoveries and preservations. Some titles are listed within our GTW64 archives … Continue reading →

Posted in: Commodore 64 (C64), GTW64 news, News | Leave a comment

GTW64 January 2023 update

Posted: 01-02-2023, last updated: 15-02-2023 by Frank Gasking

Just missed posting in January I know, but we’ve been busy the past month or so just tidying up some of our pages and adding a few quick updates along the way. No new entries, but plenty of updates instead … Continue reading →

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The Legend of Billy Boulder

Posted: 25-01-2023, last updated: 30-06-2023 by Frank Gasking

1990 U.S. Gold Platform: C64, Atari 400/800, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC Our next entry into the archives was thought to have been both a C64 and Atari 800/400 development for Databyte back in the 1980s. Billy Boulder was … Continue reading →

Posted in: Atari 400/800/XL, Atari ST, Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore Amiga, GTW64 news, PC, Reviews | Tagged: No download available | Leave a comment

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