Documenting unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games.
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Reading through some old Zzap’s when I spotted this intro screen from the preview of Chase HQ 2 on the C64. This screen apparently was meant for the intro sequence (accurately ported from the arcade), but looks like it was … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1987 Games Designers Workshop Chickamauga was going to be a stragetic war game, of which there are many on the C64. Its scheduled release was for 1987, by Games Designers Workshop (GDW), an … Continue reading
What was first thought to be a lost and unreleased educational game on the Commodore 64, has been found safe and well thanks to the guys at the Personal Computer Museum. Chutes and Ladders has been on our missing list … Continue reading
If anyone can remember the scanner pages in C-Format, they will probably remember seeing CJ In Space being in there, but that didn’t emerge in the end. So it was a surprise to uncover a 4th game in the series, … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1987/88 Avalon Hill game company The only information we have on this game comes from a CES show in Chicago, USA in 1987. Basically the game was to be a chess game, with … Continue reading
Games That Weren’t has been running for almost 20 years now, with its first on-line presence appearing way back in early 1999. After years of research and preservation work done in our spare time, we are now about to mark … Continue reading
It seems that there have been issues for some time with our contact form on the GTW site, with emails not getting sent for at least a few months. This is likely due to security updates on the hosting we … Continue reading
Thanks to contributor Ken Knight, it has been highlighted that the preview of puzzler Cubic, called Cubic Maxi contains some differences in the game play compared to the final release. Otherwise it looks pretty much the same as the final … Continue reading
1992 Hi-Tec Software Platforms: Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga and ZX Spectrum 48/128K As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print … Continue reading
Something I was beginning to think I would never get to say! Just over 18 years worth of searching for Games That Weren’t – we are very proud to to present the fully recovered “Daffy Duck – And The Great … Continue reading
A short post thanks to contributor Daniel Meléndez, who spotted Daley Thompson playing a slightly different looking Daley Thompson’s Decathlon game on the Commodore 64: Not massive differences it has to be said, apart from the panel boards and the … Continue reading
Just a very short post to host some demo/hack disks that I found in Level Up games in Canterbury on some old C64 disks. They seem to be credited to a Derick Boorman who lived in Kent and hacked around … Continue reading
Thanks to Martin/Stadium 64 – Emlyn Hughes was reviewed/previewed with very different panel graphics, which you can see below: Was there maybe other differences tucked away that were never used in the final version?
A huge thanks is required for Duncan Kershaw, who was recently clearing out and found a bunch of design docs and odds and ends. Rather than dump them, he very kindly asked us if we’d be up for scanning and … Continue reading
Something a little bit different, but thanks to Duncan Kershaw – we are able to show you a little glimpse of a level and a bad guy which was never used in the final release of DJ Puff. The charset … Continue reading
Thanks to some recent contributions, the following titles have been updated. And now after a feature request, you can now view an update log to see exactly what has changed. This can be found near the top of the review. … Continue reading
A massive thank you to Tom Roger Skauen, who passed on a copy of this very obscure and rare sample release of Dragon’s Lair – which he fully preserved in TAP format. Tom cannot remember how he obtained the game, … Continue reading
A very quick update tonight on GTW64 with some info from Gary Mays on Swords and Sorcery and also the release of a very early isometric prototype from Lynsoft called Cops and Robbers (Working title we believe): Check out at … 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
With many thanks to Martin Inter, a number of early screens from actual released C64 games such as G-Loc, Dragon Ninja, Batman The Caped Crusader and Hammerfist have been added to this page. These show different sprites (in the case … Continue reading
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