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.
Well, after an entertaining 2015 – the work continues. We begin 2016 with some quick new entries and a bunch of updates to some existing titles. Sadly nothing new to play, but that will change soon. Watch this space! 5 … Continue reading →
Mystery solving has been something we’ve been doing for years now, though there are many times that we hit dead ends and just cannot progress any further. Solving the mystery of who the 80’s development group “Softeam” were exactly is … Continue reading →
So where did 2015 go? Only feels like the other month I was doing last years special update :) It’s been a massive year, with one of the most important lost C64 games finally found amongst one of our most … Continue reading →
Ashley Routledge recently in 2015 loaned his C64 disks for GTW64 to do a large preservation job. Mostly to try and see if we could recover Daffy Duck, but also to preserve any potentially lost demos, artwork and just Ash’s … Continue reading →
It’s been a very busy few months, doing a lot of digital preservation work for ex-C64 developers and artists – but a very fruitful few months too. Very often, we find music files and demos which are not online anywhere … Continue reading →
Ok, so we’re not talking about a majorly different conversion that was in the works, but some fairly significant differences compared to the final edition that eventually ended up on the C64. Many of you may remember the rolling demo … Continue reading →
Another big finding for 2015!…. Soul Gem Of Martek recovered Unfortunately not the full game (which may not have existed), but GTW is proud to present remains of a title that has been missing for over 30 years. Amazingly, not … Continue reading →
We’re back after a short break with some more C64 recovery work with the following new findings and updates: Quadrofender full game found and released A complete 1990 budget title from Clockwize has been recovered from disk and released for … Continue reading →
Another surprise finding, this time of an aborted early conversion of Codemasters’ Tarzan Goes Ape game, which looks very different to the final released version, with far better graphics. It isn’t sadly too playable, but you can sort of move … Continue reading →
Not seen even by Simon since 1989, we are proud to present the infamous road routine which Simon produced to prove a point to Mark Kelly after seeing Turbo Outrun. It’s not playable, but was all that was produced and … Continue reading →
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