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.
1991 Core Design Platforms: Commodore Amiga and Atari ST Following on from the recent post on Cyber Fight, comes yet another 3D futuristic sports title in the shape of Retro. A title being developed for Core Design by Steve Northcott … Continue reading →
1995 Black Legend Platform: PC, Amiga 1200 and CD32 Chess Through The Ages is an unreleased chess game for Commodore Amiga 1200 and CD32 (possibly even PC – see further on). First kicked off in development around 1993 and eventually … Continue reading →
1991 System 3 Platform: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST Once known as Borderline during its early development, Turbo Charge was inspired by the driving section that featured within Vendetta, an earlier game by System 3. The game was released on the … Continue reading →
1994 Alternative Software Platforms: Commodore Amiga and PC I wasn’t a huge comic book fan growing up, but I still liked to get the occasional copy of the Beano in the UK, where my favourite part was always Dennis the … Continue reading →
1985 Aardvark Software Platform: Amstrad CPC A short entry which is thanks to @nivrig and @ChinnyVision for posting on Twitter a few days ago. Amstrad Computer User in June 1985 had posted a short news item regarding an Amstrad CPC … Continue reading →
As the summer starts to draw to a close, we preserve an early Hungarian Tetris clone thanks to Csaba Virag. Then we take a look at what seems to be a long lost Commodore 64 conversion of a PET/VIC 20 … Continue reading →
A quick post from us, thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni. Fabrizio has recently located a couple of unreleased DOS games online on the classicdosgames.com website and has shared some links if you want to check them out: TigerFox (1984) Tron Light … Continue reading →
1991 U.S. Gold Platforms: Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC Mega Twins (known as Chiki Chiki Boys in Japan) was a sickly cute platformer produced by Capcom in the early 90’s, a slight sideways turn from the likes of … Continue reading →
1998 Titan Computers Platform: Amiga 1200 Claws of the Devil is a late Amiga title that was in development back in 1998, and was a first person action game for platforms with expanded memory, additional graphics cards and PPC turbo … Continue reading →
1991 Mirrorsoft Platform: ZX Spectrum 128k Back in 1991, C64 developer and musician Dave Spicer decided to put together a technical demo for a potential conversion of Xenon 2 for the ZX Spectrum. What was produced was pretty stunning – … Continue reading →
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