Documenting unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games.
1990 U.S. Gold Platform: C64, Atari 400/800, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC Our next entry into the archives was thought to have been both a C64 and Atari 800/400 development for Databyte back in the 1980s. Billy Boulder was … Continue reading
Time has come round quickly once more, with our yearly Christmas update – and as always, we have something for you in the shape of a previously unseen and unreleased C64 game (lost for 38 years), some recovered C128 titles … Continue reading
As the summer draws to a close, we present 4 new entries, and 17 updates overall to various titles. We’ve added a new entry for Visualize’s Kung-Fu Warrior, which oddly we haven’t added until now. A strange C64 conversion of … Continue reading
Well and truly back up to speed this month with 6 new entries, and 18 updates overall to various titles. There is the new mystery of a U.S. Gold release that seemingly never was in most parts of Europe, details … Continue reading
A bit more up to speed this month, with 5 more new entries, including a large catalogue listing to try and find a bunch of software that may not yet be preserved and a homebrew title that hasn’t seen the … Continue reading
Apologies all, a bit of a smaller update than usual due to recent personal events. Hope to be back up to full tilt by next month. Enjoy all! 1 new entry added Eros 9 updates added Enduro Racer V2, Exodus, Kick Your … Continue reading
For May 2022 we have the following 6 new additions and updates for the site, including a number of new entries and preservations over the past month. Also details of another Shadow of the Beast conversion that was under way … 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
Hi all – just a heads up that I may not get to process any site comments or submissions right away, as a close family member has been admitted to hospital. I’ll try and respond and update as soon as … Continue reading
For April 2022 we have the following new additions and updates for the site, including yet another unfinished Tetris game that has been recovered. A large chunk of new entries are for titles which may have been released, but have … Continue reading
How is it March already? Here is yet another GTW64 update for 2022 with a bunch of new entries, including 8 new entries to the archive, and a bunch of updates for 29 titles in all. Enjoy! 8 new entries … Continue reading
A few quick early screens that have been spotted by Martin Inter recently, in particular for the C64 conversions of Robocop, Predator and R-Type in Zzap Italia. Predator and R-Type are quite small oddities, but for Robocop, in the Zzap … 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
Platoon was a superb movie tie-in game from Ocean Software back in 1988 with some excellent varied levels that captured the essence of the movie. Thanks to contributor Martin Inter, here are some slightly earlier Commodore 64 screens which show … Continue reading
Platforms: ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 Over the years we have figured out at GTW64 about the connection between Thundercats and the unreleased Wolf by Gargoyle Games – as well as Bombjack 2 and Beyond the Ice Palace originally intended … Continue reading
Another month, and another GTW64 update with a bunch of new entries, including some new downloads for you to check out that haven’t been previously preserved as far as we can tell. These are Ladders 2, Ex Simultan and Maerzi … Continue reading
Thank you to everyone for their continued support to Games That Weren’t this past year, as we conclude with our yearly update (and larger than our usually monthly update). Plenty to digest and check out and hope you enjoy it! … Continue reading
A bit back to normality this month, with a lot more new unreleased game entries and updates in our penultimate GTW64 update before the end of 2021. We hope you enjoy it! 8 new entries added Anna, Core, Gape, Pixie and Dixie, Popeye V1, The … Continue reading
A quick post to highlight another C64 title preserved, thanks to the efforts of Allan Pinkerton, who has been slowly helping to recover a large number of unpreserved educational titles for the platform. Today we see the release of Whole … Continue reading
Not an unreleased game entry, but an early demo/prototype of this Commodore 64 graphic adventure game that was released by Ordilogic/Lankhor back in 1989. This was found on a set of disks by Csaba Virag, and was likely sent out … Continue reading
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