Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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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
It seems like Commodore User magazine were a little naughty with their Nemesis review back in the 80’s. Featuring screenshots from what seem to be an earlier version of the game – just look at the brown/orange score panels, which … 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
After one update, Jason Kelk has very kindly dug out and helped recover 3 previously unseen previews in the shape of Ball Game, Speed Trap and Xykik. Three very promising early previews. Here goes with the summary of tonight’s updates: … Continue reading
After many years of saying we were going to update GTW64, it has finally been done! We are very proud to present the newly updated GTW64 site, now becoming part of the main Games That Weren’t website and taking advantages … Continue reading
Keeping up the trend, some more new entries and various updates have been added. This includes news of another Psygnosis conversion that never was, an interesting Club Light game, a selection of John Vanderaart entries, some newly recovered Duncan Kershaw … Continue reading
Mostly thanks to some excellent contributions from Kurt Woloch, here are some updates for a number of Atarisoft games that never were below. This includes some previously unseen C64 screens for Joust and half of one for Stargate… Crystal Castles … 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
Another GTW64 update which features a new entry thanks to Mark Wilson, and a set of tunes intended for the game. In addition – Arbitrator has had a set of tunes submitted by Mark which were also intended for the … Continue reading
Thanks to Hein Holt for passing on his impressive vertical scroller – Red Baron 3000. Started in 2007, but sadly was never to be. Read more over at https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/red-baron-3000/
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
1990 Ocean Software Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, PC and Commodore 64 This was to be the last of a trilogy of Nightbreed games produced by Ocean Software in 1990 and produced by Imagitec, overseen by David Wightman. The game … 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
Just a quick post to share some odd Ocean related C64 assets I found as I was tidying through some archived disks from Dawn Hollywood (Nee Drake) and Paul Hughes when backing up some old CDs: These “Time Out” and … Continue reading
Although not an unreleased game as such, this is an obscure C64 based compilation that was released late in the C64’s life, which featured commercial games as PD games. It’s likely not many sold, and as a result hasn’t really … Continue reading
We have one last surprise update for 2017, including a preview of an extremely promising game which could still hopefully be finished and taken out of GTW64. The coder still open to help and suggestions for continuing – can you … Continue reading
Well, it’s pretty much coming up to 15 years soon since GTW64 first went online and began to recover many a lost title. One thing we haven’t really done is sat back and reflected on some of the best findings … 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
Thanks to Encore (Nothing to do with Elite I might add), a contributor on Lemon 64 – a range of unused sprites have been found tucked away in the game. Ever wondered why so much was missed out of the … Continue reading
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