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.
1983 Creative Software Platform: Commodore VIC-20 Survivor Run is an original game that Creative Software were due to release back in 1983 – an original creation by Steven Yaeger that he had sold to the company. The aim of the … Continue reading →
Gamebase64 has been a hugely important digital archive for the Commodore 64 for over 25 years now, bringing together all of the games that have made the platform so special. Webmaster and developer Steven Feurer tragically passed away suddenly in … Continue reading →
1983/84 Fox Video Games Platforms: Atari 2600 and ColecoVision Our next entry is nothing to do with the Elite licence that came later on the Commodore 64, though that too had an unreleased version of some kind that you can … Continue reading →
1985 O.F.A Platform: Atari 400/800 series A short collective entry for a series of Atari 400/800 adventures that are currently missing and were advertised for a long period of time in Computer Shopper magazine in 1986. Flagged up by Bertrand … Continue reading →
A bonus post to finish the week. Recently Fabrizio Bartoloni flagged up someone called BloodyCactus looking at an unreleased C64 adventure game called The Mermaid and the Crown. Whilst looking into details to try and add entries onto the site, … Continue reading →
1993 Ola Zandelin and Robert Hennings Platform: Commodore Amiga As the archive continues to grow, so does the sadness to see that there have been so many games started and never finished over the decades of the games industry. Here … Continue reading →
Our friends at Atarimania.com have been busy yet again, with preservation of a prototype of Caverns of Mars. This was dumped for the site by John Hardie, and is different from the final release. Not sure how much is different exactly, … Continue reading →
1988 Firebird Software Platform: PC DOS Thrust was a brilliant budget title from the mind of the late Jeremy Smith back in 1986, developed first for the BBC Micro (released via Superior Software), then converted to a large number of … Continue reading →
1992 Kid’s Source Platform: PC Engine A short entry for now on a currently missing PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 title called Riftwar Saga, which was a 1/2-player hack and slash title that was due for release in 1992 from a company called … Continue reading →
1999 No publisher Platform: Commodore Amiga Kontakt was a new adventure game being written for the Commodore Amiga sometime in 1999, where you would control a reporter called Albert Faser, who suspects someone of carrying out illegal transactions. When given … Continue reading →
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