Preserving Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Game History Since 1999
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A new recovery thanks to Retroboy – an unfinished and early bullfighting game for the C64 called ‘La Venganza del Toro’. This has been added today into the GTW64 archives, which you can now check out for yourselves at https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/la-venganza-del-toro/ … Continue reading
Thanks to Enthusi/Onslaught in the C64 scene, the long lost St. Pauli adventure game has been found and recovered. This is a German based adventure game written in GAC which was released in very limited numbers. It has been known … Continue reading
Another GTW64 update which includes: All dogs go to heaven, Breakthrough, Gunboat, Leopard Lord, Lord Of The Rings, Oriental Games, Razzmatazz, Rescue Mission, Slidez, World Boxing Champ All specifics about the updates made can be found in a new “Updates … Continue reading
Thanks to Gaetano for highlighting which is something I hadn’t noticed before. In Zzap 64’s review of 19 Boot Camp Part 1, it seems they either reviewed an earlier build of the game, or they used screenshots provided/from a preview … Continue reading
First of 2013 – whilst browsing through Drax’s work tunes, I spotted a few sets of tunes which were obviously meant for some games that never quite made it. Here are the very quick entries to start with – hoping … Continue reading
When contacting developers to ask about their unreleased games, we often send a barrage of questions to bombard them. Sometimes the answers are pretty short, but other times we can get some brilliant answers which often tell a great story … Continue reading
I can’t really add this to GTW64 as a proper entry, but I thought i’d share – as i’m pretty happy at this particular personal finding. After doing some preservation work with the Maverick v5 tool on a problematic disk, … Continue reading
A short GTW64 update to keep things moving and show some quick updates that have been going on. Nuclear Nick recovered and released After 30 years of being missing, a preview build of Nuclear Nick has been recovered by Peepo … Continue reading
Another one for the collection, but spotted in an issue of Your Commodore was a preview of Pitfighter with a slight difference in the game area. The difference is merely the inclusion of a yellow trousered main character for Kato … Continue reading
A few bits and pieces have come through right at the death of 2012 – which includes details of another Amiga to C64 conversion that never was called: Leaving Teramis And also David Wightman helped us to confirm some more … Continue reading
Just had the most fantastic weekend at Retro Collective with my wife, Tasha, giving a talk on Games That Weren’t and the digital preservation of unreleased games over the past 25 years or so. A huge thank you to Neil … Continue reading
Following on from the recent recovery of Total Recall V1 – we today take a detailed video look at the prototype, the story of its search and how it was found. Including highlighting of differences from the original Zzap!64 preview … Continue reading
It hasn’t been a title that we’ve been actively looking for, but it has been missing for a long time – not known if it was actually released. Well, thankfully it was released it seems in limited numbers and was … Continue reading
This post came about after something interesting from RESET’s editor Kevin Tilley was sent through. Club Max Software club was an Australian ran software club that was fairly popular. They had a store which Kevin used to visit. What’s interesting … Continue reading
Thanks to Sailor of Triad, a rare prototype of Alien 3 for the Commodore 64 has just been discovered recently. This was a demo that was seemingly produced for producer Joe Bonar to take a look at back in the day to see progress with the project. Continue reading
A lovely curiosity added to the archives today thanks to Marco Das, with the preservation of a very rare non-playable demo of Alleykat distributed by Hewson back in the day. It was likely for shops to showcase the game in … Continue reading
Just a quick post to put back up the Alligata Master disks and Maniacs of Noise SFX files that we had on the old site. It seemed a shame they were tucked away out of sight – so here they … Continue reading
Games That Weren’t features in the press this month in various forms, with an Amiga CD32 Games That Weren’t piece in the latest Amiga Addict magazine (CD32 special to celebrate 30 years), and also an interview with Amstrad Addict (an … Continue reading
Thanks to Ross Sillifant, Andrew Holdroyd gives some brief history about his C64/Vic 20 days and any released and unreleased works: “The Vic20 was the first computer I owned and learned my trade on it. The first wave of home … 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
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