Documenting unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games.
After a few months offline, Games That Weren’t is back – with a slightly new lick of paint – though not too dissimilar to the old site. So what happened?… Unfortunately the hosting disappeared and bang went all our content. … Continue reading
1986 Elite Platforms: ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 Dragons Lair was a technical marvel in the early 80s with its impressive Laser Disc technology. Elite jumped on the bandwagon with their licence of the popular cartoon series. Whereas Dragons … Continue reading
1985 Ultimate Lunar Jetman was part of a huge classic genre on the Spectrum that spawned a few games by Ultimate featuring the Jetman character. The range of games however never quite made their way onto the C64. Spectrum users … Continue reading
A big thanks to Paul Drury for flagging this up for GTW after a recent Retro Gamer magazine article with Larry DeMar. After Vid Kidz had delivered Stargate to Williams, Larry had begun working on a new project called “Conquest” … Continue reading
1992 Bullfrog Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and PC Code – Paul Hughes Graphics – Mark R. Cobley-Jones Music – N/A Ah ‘Flood’… The memories had with this awesome Amiga game back in the day. With its groundbreaking speech effects … Continue reading
Thanks to Peter Weighill for the heads up, but some exciting developments over at the World of Spectrum as Mark R Jones has uncovered a rather rare and previously unpreserved clone of the arcade game Popeye cheekily called “Popie“. Popie … Continue reading
A short post about Simon Cooke’s SAM Coupe contributions. His unreleased contributions include Populous(incomplete), Bubble Bobble (unattainable license, 1991), Zub (unfinished, but screenshots exist). Unrelated to Sam Coupe but of great importance is that he worked on a finished cool-looking … Continue reading
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