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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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Thank you to Vinny Mainolfi

Posted: 24-06-2014 by Frank Gasking

A huge thank you to Vinny Mainolfi for his kind contribution to our gamesthatwerent.com domain costs for this year!

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Thank you to Andreas Wanda and Kevin Tilley

Posted: 24-06-2014 by Frank Gasking

A huge thank you to Andreas Wanda and Kevin Tilley for your kind contribution to our domain and hosting costs for this year!

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Single Extreme Freedom (c64) full game recovered and released

Posted: 24-06-2014 by Frank Gasking

Following on from other recent recoveries comes another title which has been fixed up by Fix, Bieno, Pugsy and Jazzcat over the past few months. This time another full game which was meant to have seen the light of day … Continue reading →

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Graham Gooch World Class Cricket (C64) recovered!

Posted: 23-06-2014 by Frank Gasking

After 23 years of being missing, possibly the final remaining copy of Graham Gooch World Class Cricket (the original version for the C64 as reviewed by Commodore Format in issue 12) has been recovered and preserved. Graham Gooch World Class … Continue reading →

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Thank you to LDX#40 and Jan Schulze

Posted: 23-06-2014 by Frank Gasking

A huge thank you to LDX#40 and Jan Schulze for your kind contribution to our domain and hosting costs for this year!

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GTW hosting costs and donations

Posted: 22-06-2014 by Frank Gasking

Games That Weren’t is a freely ran project, 100% non-profitable and done in our own free time. To ensure minimum downtime, storing vast amounts of scans, downloads and information we unfortunately have to pay for hosting. If you would like … Continue reading →

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Pluff game found and released + more!

Posted: 22-06-2014 by Frank Gasking

A nice big update for June, which includes the full preservation of Pluff, which has been missing for many years. Also included are two home brew titles which were done back in the day by a game creator and long … Continue reading →

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Green Beret (C64) – earlier edition

Posted: 22-06-2014, last updated: 30-06-2023 by Frank Gasking

Thanks to Ross Sillifant for highlighting yet another title which was looking a little different before its final release. Although not drastically different to the final game, there’s probably no harm flagging it up for a quick mention. When Green … Continue reading →

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C64 games still in production, not cancelled

Posted: 10-06-2014, last updated: 16-12-2020 by Frank Gasking

Over the years, GTW64 has added titles to its archives which were mistakenly thought to have been abandoned and no longer in production. Rather than just remove them and forget about them – we have created this page to list … Continue reading →

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Sharla ending + Chuck Rock original downloads added

Posted: 23-05-2014, last updated: 18-09-2020 by Frank Gasking

A quick GTW64 update from us to present the first piece of Search For Sharla seen for over 20 years in the shape of the end sequence, thanks to the work of Andy Roberts and Vinny Mainolfi. In addition to … Continue reading →

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