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.
1994 Denton Designs Platforms: PC, Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn Retro Gamer issue 113 had once featured an excellent feature on the trilogy of Shadowfire by Martyn Carroll. Trilogy? Well, you’ll need to check out the article to find out … Continue reading →
After one update, Jason Kelk has very kindly dug out and helped recover 3 previously unseen previews in the shape of Ball Game, Speed Trap and Xykik. Three very promising early previews. Here goes with the summary of tonight’s updates: … Continue reading →
Continuing to get through the occasional update. Here is some more to keep you all going! 5 new entries added Kult: The Temple of Flying Saucers, Rescue Mission, Speed Trap, Toi Acid Game, Vicious Circle 5 updates added 10th Dan, … Continue reading →
NOTE: This has been brought into the GTW64 archive as a V1 entry at: Knuckle Buster V1 A quick addition showing a rather different looking Knuckle Buster game on the C64 by Mat Sneap. Luckily in this case the preview … Continue reading →
The first update for March this year. Hopefully some findings coming up very soon, with some exciting developments bubbling up. Check these out for now… 3 new entries added Battle Truck, Eagle Storm, Squad One 11 updates added Cloak Of … Continue reading →
Andrew Morris has been allowing us to preserve some of his disks to show incomplete/unused materials to the world, and recently we have discovered the assets to the likes of Kikstart 2 and Cosmic Causeway and various others. This is … Continue reading →
If you’ve been checking out GTW for some years now, you may recognise the Apocalypse and Putty Squad write ups. They are indeed nothing new, but reviews that were salvaged recently from the old site. I’ve just quickly tidied them … Continue reading →
1997 The Electric Pixel Company Platform: Super Nintendo Code – Simon Nicol Graphics – Herman Serrano Sound – Mike Clarke Ten years after Mega Apocalypse, Simon Nicol’s awesome ‘Mad Planets’ conversion was to be given the 16-bit treatment. ‘Apocalypse 2’ … Continue reading →
1999 Studio 3 / Thalamus Interactive Gameboy Colour A wonderful idea and game which originally started out with the name of ‘Silly Putty’ and later was renamed to just ‘Putty’. ‘Putty Squad’ was the next game in line. Putty is … Continue reading →
A number of new entries based from research in BigK magazine and also some recent bits and pieces that have come up. 6 new entries added Cloak Of Death, Klartz and the Dark Forces, Morris Meets The Bikers, Mountain Video … Continue reading →
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