Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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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
NOTE: (Frank – 03/09/21) I’ve updated this old 2012 post, as the link was broke. Another quick update with the recovery of a great icon driven adventure game called Angel Of Death 2. This is a very advanced preview with … Continue reading
Had another few more bits and pieces come through over the past week or so – so here is another digest of recent updates – including two new full games (Equinox + Soda Shop) that were recovered by Peepo, Tom … Continue reading
How can it be April already? Well, here’s another update anyway – and a lot of Rob Hubbard related mysteries solved as you will see, including another twist in the tale which is Thundercats! :-) 9 new entries added Colorasaurus, … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1988 Firebird In 1987 Firebird released Arcade Classics, a compilation of (wait for it) four classic arcade games, namely Space Invaders, Asteroids, Snake and Space Wars. It was neatly packaged with a front-end … Continue reading
Our next Christmas 2024 update sees Games That Weren’t take a look at a series of early concepts and prototypes from the late Archer Maclean’s disks. This includes the first ever look at concepts for an abandoned Atari/Commodore sequel to … Continue reading
1984-198? Archer Maclean Platforms: Commodore 64 Whilst going through Archer’s work disks, we found a few bits and pieces lurking on the disks, which might be unseen artwork or work that Archer has done. We’ll add to this page over … Continue reading
Just a very quick post to share a few pre-release versions of Hawkeye and Armalyte. Nothing to get too excited about, and the Hawkeye version has already been put out last year – just slightly under the radar. The purpose … Continue reading
Ashley Routledge recently in 2015 loaned his C64 disks for GTW64 to do a large preservation job. Mostly to try and see if we could recover Daffy Duck, but also to preserve any potentially lost demos, artwork and just Ash’s … Continue reading
A long lost John Vanderaart game called Aurum has been found and recovered via a chance copy from a party back in the 80’s and preserved. Not only has it been preserved, but the past few months have seen a … Continue reading
Thanks to Joachim Wijnhoven, a long lost game called Ball by Dream Systems from 1989 has been recovered. This is a preview which comes with two separate files showing two different levels and some great presentation. Still early days with … Continue reading
Thanks to Allan Pinkerton, who has very kindly preserved missing copies of Basic Tools, Creators Revenge (Already out there as Metamorphosis III – The Creators Revenge), Math Pack and Math Flash. They are not strictly ‘Games That Weren’t’, but we … Continue reading
Many thanks to Dave Peacock, who recently recovered the following graphical assets for Beverly Hills Cop on the C64 from his work disks. It seems that at somepoint, Michael Owens took over graphical duties on the C64 – leaving Dave … Continue reading
Michael Ware has very kindly recovered all the sources and demos for a early production of Biff that was cancelled. Interestingly it was also developed in 1989 for Zeit Productions – suggesting that Biff was originally meant to be for … Continue reading
Black Shadow C64 Games That Werent CRL 1988 Addition by Alex Ross: Sadly it seems there was no conversion whatsoever for the C64 on Black Shadow. CRL head honcho, Clem Chambers wrote to us to explain that although the magazine … Continue reading
Richard Bayliss has been working hard the past few months to finish off an abandoned Columns clone which was infamously released into PD and onto Commodore Format’s covertape in an incomplete form around 30 years ago. This has now been … Continue reading
A game which made the news pages of various fanzines, including Commodore Scene magazine here in the UK around 1997. Bloodrush was to be a promising shooter for C64 fans who desperately awaited any new software to come about. Apart … Continue reading
If you haven’t played Breakdown before, then you should check it out. It’s a fun and simple shooter/platformer/puzzler mix, which was generously given away on Zzap!64 issue 90’s covermount. When flicking through the magazine the other day, I realized that … Continue reading
Way back in Commodore User issue 25 (October 1985) is how far we’re travelling for our latest preservation work – a board game tie-in that blurred the lines between digital and physical play: Bryan Robson’s Super League, published by Paul Lamond Games. And that is the key thing, at first on our C64 entry we wasn’t sure if it was published or not, but turns out it was. Continue reading
Just a short post to add a slightly earlier prototype of Ariolasoft’s Bug Blitz which has been recovered thanks to Csaba Virag and Janos Szeitz (who digitized the turbo tape where it was found).
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