Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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A quick post thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog, to highlight the recent recovery of an unpreserved educational title for the C64 called Matchmaker: Grammar. Released in 1983 by American Educational Computer. The disk was preserved by SoulBuster on the … Continue reading
I’ve just seen this message from Gilby on World of Spectrum regarding the recently discovered discs: To date, the Spectrum Mega Twins disc has been successfully dumped, plus two Amstrad discs with Mega Twins on it… There are other proto … Continue reading
Two weeks ago, a posting was made to the World of Spectrum forum indicating that demo versions of the Amstrad CPC and Sinclair Spectrum versions of unreleased US Gold/Capcom game Mega Twins were being auctioned on eBay. The Amstrad version … Continue reading
Not technically a Game That Wasn’t, but a lovely story from Ready64, where Modulus on the Commodore 64 was released with content missing, so it was not possible to complete. One of the coders Ivan Del Duca has now restored … Continue reading
Thanks to the amazing efforts of contributor Allan Pinkerton, two more unpreserved C64 titles have now been preserved in the form of the final missing Playwriter title – Castles and Creatures (which goes now with the other titles preserved in … Continue reading
Another GTW64 update for the (far too) hot month of July, including: 5 new Karl Hornell entries added Chopperman, Clod Jumper, Commodore Juicer, Hex-Bert, Qrazy Qber 3 updates also added Bushido Warrior, Chainsaw Warrior, Nighthunter
Keeping up the updates for March, we have the following updates for you: 1 new entry added Droidz 6 updates added Flight Deck 2, Heebie Jeebies, Lusitania, Mega Twins, Orcus, Viking Child
A bonus post to finish the week. Recently Fabrizio Bartoloni flagged up someone called BloodyCactus looking at an unreleased C64 adventure game called The Mermaid and the Crown. Whilst looking into details to try and add entries onto the site, … Continue reading
Recently my good friend of 27 years, Jason Kelk, sadly lost his 15 month battle with COVID. It’s still sinking in that he’s no longer with us, so to try and help process things I wrote a blog post about … Continue reading
Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni for flagging up, but Atari Mania have recently announced recovery of four games by General Masters Corporation for the Atari 400/800 which apparently were never released. Mike Burkhart kindly dumped the games in 2022: Con Job … Continue reading
Happy Sunday everyone! A lovely surprise today, where author of the unreleased Firebird game Worron, Richard Paynter got in touch to provide GTW with an upgraded and fixed version of his 34 year old game. After GTW recovered Richard’s work … Continue reading
A new update on Games That Weren’t 64 with the following added: New Exodus game entry 11 updated entries with various credits, creator speaks added. News source: http://www.gtw64.co.uk
First update of 2017, and a few new goodies for you to check out already. More to come soon we hope. Two unreleased games found Two more final findings on Ashley Routledge’s C64 disks, this time on the Compunet download … Continue reading
News of an old SNES game called Nightmare Busters has emerged recently and which is being finished off, after originally being cancelled back in the day. The game is being finished off by Super Fighter Team, and should be available … Continue reading
The guys at World of Spectrum have just worked with Dean Hickingbottom to recover remains of a rather neat little game called Ninja Grannies which was developed by Clockwise Developments. Well, its a one on one beat-em-up which isnt Street … 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
The final Fun School game in the series on the C64 has finally been saved from obscurity after a recent online store finding of the game by GTW64. The game has now been fully preserved and submitted to Gamebase 64 … Continue reading
A quick update with the recovery of an interesting Qix inspired game called Pen Palz, where you must draw a certain percentage of the screen whilst avoiding enemies. A cool early preview worth checking out! http://www.gtw64.co.uk/Pages/p/Review_Penpalz
Penguin Tower on the Commodore 64 was recently finished off after almost 30 years. Developer Jani Hirvo has just informed Games That Weren’t that he has released all of the source code for the game on github! https://github.com/mokdevel/PenguinTower_c64
A huge surprise for Amiga fans today, as System 3 have released the Amiga version of Putty Squad after being missing for almost 20 years and to mark the release of the Playstation release. The game has been preserved thanks … Continue reading
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