Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 19
A huge thank you to Christina Burroughs for her kind contribution to our gamesthatwerent.com domain costs for this year! This now concludes our donations for 2014, so many thanks to everyone who donated!
Within only a week we have covered our hosting costs thanks to fantastic contributions from Brandon Cobb, Vinny Mainolfi and Jan Schulze. Thanks guys, your contributions were very humbling and helps keep things ticking over for us. As a result … Continue reading
Just a quick post to say thank you to the contributor today who passed on some information regarding some C64 titles. They didn’t leave a proper email/name for credit, so hence this post. Most appreciated, and I’ll update the relevant … Continue reading
Just wanted to say a big thanks for all the very kind contributions to our hosting and domain costs, which was completed thanks to Mark Campbell (a full list of all our contributors can be found on the donations page). … Continue reading
We just wanted to post to say a huge thank you to contributor LiqMatrix who blew us away today by donating our entire hosting and domain costs for the year. I had not put out a call for hosting donations … Continue reading
A big thanks to Andreas Wanda for his very kind donation, which has completed our hosting costs for 2013/2014. Many thanks to all our contributors who have helped to keep GTW going! :)
A big thanks to Roy Fielding for his recent contribution towards our hosting costs! Many thanks! :)
A big thanks to Vinny Mainolfi and Gary Spence for their recent donation towards our hosting costs! Only a week in, and we’re almost half way there! Many thanks!
After a long rescue mission, at long last the lost C64 conversion of The Bubbler has been found and released. The added bonus is that the game is fully complete, containing the loading picture, music and sfx. Developer Matt Young, … Continue reading
After 5 years of work (give or take), we’re pleased to announce The Games That Weren’t book coming soon in May 2020 from Bitmap Books, covering unreleased games since the dawn of the industry. More details coming soon, but very … Continue reading
GTW recently helped online games journalist Larry Bundy Jr with research and information on the Thundercats game series by Elite, including the two unreleased titles. And the final result has been published last week. Here it is, enjoy!
Our friends at Atarimania.com have informed us of the recovery of an unreleased text adventure for the Atari 400/800 called The Ronin which has been missing for 39 years. A game that was intended for release eventually by Brøderbund Software, who … Continue reading
Nintendo Life have published a chapter from The Games That Weren’t book, which takes a look at the unreleased Virtual Tank game by Boss Game Studio. As well as talking to the developers involved in the game, there are screenshots … Continue reading
1999 Runecraft Platform: Sony PlayStation A short entry for what was to be an educational based title created for the Sony PlayStation by Runecraft around 1999 time, based on the famous children’s series. Thanks to lead artist David Tolley, we … Continue reading
Before and since the recovery of the infamous Sigue Sigue Sputnik from oblivion, we wanted to always learn more about the game via its creator, Tony (Gibbo) Gibson. Attempts had been in vain though sadly. Mark Harrison popped up early … Continue reading
Lost for 33 years, we are pleased to announce the recovery of the original abandoned development of Total Recall for the Commodore 64! So happy to finally see those old Zzap!64 screens in motion after years of searching! Full story … Continue reading
Now for something which isn’t worth a full entry on the GTW64 site, but is worthy of a mention. Recently a prototype of System 3’s 1991 racer/shooter Turbocharge on the Commodore 64 has been uncovered by TMR/Cosine, originally preserved to … Continue reading
Second update of the year with two new previews added to the site: Escape from London remains added An adventure game due for release for 2013 has now been added in what could be its final state. Full story about … Continue reading
Thanks to Paul Clansey, we have fully preserved two of his unfinished games in the form of RPG game Freebooter and ambitious Elite style sim Exodus. Hoping for Paul to share more soon about how they both work, but check … Continue reading
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