Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Happy New Year everyone! Work never stops on GTW64, and here is another 12 updates for you. The big one includes the finding of “The Birds” as part of the Your Computer Software Exchange, thanks to the excellent efforts of … Continue reading
In hoping to bring back more regular updates now the book nears conclusion and publication in a few months, here is the first GTW update of 2020, including a new Vic 20 section. This update includes a bunch of new … Continue reading
Force of the Vulcan GTW64 review Alex Ross Kele Line Games 1987 Kele Line games were a Danish games company, who now are probably most famous for their excellent title, The Vikings. They only released two other games, Tiger Mission … Continue reading
Over the past few years, I have been busy porting my own C64 disks (mostly to pass on potentially lost game cracks and demos from my own collection) and work tapes with the aim of digitally archiving all of the … Continue reading
I recently picked up some Sinclair User magazines at a market stall, and whilst browsing through I had a look at the Frankie Goes To Hollywood advert on the back. Nothing unusual you might say, as it was pretty much … Continue reading
A quick post relating to what seems to be a rather different (and missing) section from Epyx’s G.I. Joe licensed game from 1985. Thanks to Karl “Trantornator” Kuras for the heads up! Click onto the image in the gallery for … Continue reading
Gamebase64 has been a hugely important digital archive for the Commodore 64 for over 25 years now, bringing together all of the games that have made the platform so special. Webmaster and developer Steven Feurer tragically passed away suddenly in … Continue reading
Our first update for 2014 includes the following: 2 new entries added Toki V1, Yie Ar Kung Fu V1 8 updates added See the “Updates made” link at the top of each page for what has changed. Ballfever, Bugs Bunny, … Continue reading
A big thanks to Retroid64 who has produced an excellent Top 10 YouTube video of most wanted GTW64 titles and findings in the archive. Check it out below! :-)
I’ve been completely blown away by the support when The Games That Weren’t book was launched late last year, and even more so when it completely sold out by the start of the new year. After a number of queries … Continue reading
Our publisher Bitmap Books have just released a bit more detail in their latest newsletter about the upcoming Games That Weren’t book, including a sneak peak at how its shaping up, so here is a bit of a preview for … Continue reading
So where did 2015 go? Only feels like the other month I was doing last years special update :) It’s been a massive year, with one of the most important lost C64 games finally found amongst one of our most … Continue reading
It’s that time of the year again, when we dig out some more findings to present for a large Christmas update. Apologies for the slowness of updates this year, but another project has taken priority of late. I hope this … Continue reading
Well, another year has passed and when preparing for this update, I realised that it had been almost 12 months since the last full update. Sorry about that! Hopefully reasons are now a lot clearer as to why that was! … Continue reading
The 2025 Zzap!64 annual has arrived and looks great! The biggest surprise was the six page Games That Weren’t tribute feature by Ian Osborne, who had created the article that inspired it all. Talking about how some of the titles … Continue reading
Just had a fantastic time at Zzap Live in Kenilworth over the two days with my friend Brian ONeill, catching up with lots of friends old and new (and a bit of gaming). Thank you everyone who came to heckle … Continue reading
Morning all – just wanted to give a heads up that i’ll be doing a Games That Weren’t talk at the amazing Zzap Live event this month in Kenilworth. The GTW book will be on sale too via Sega Mags … Continue reading
Video is now live of the recent Games That Weren’t talk at The Retro Collective. Hope you enjoy it and thank you so much to The Cave for hosting us. A fantastic place which I hope many of you will … Continue reading
Great news, but thanks to the games author Simon Phillips, we have managed to preserve possibly one of the only copies and packages of the obscure Gamma Strike game set on the Commodore 64. What is particularly interesting about this … Continue reading
Thanks to Obi-Wandi, we learn that there was potentially an earlier edition of Gauntlet on the C64, which featured “easily comprehensible speech synthesis”. This was according to Happy Computer magazine and in their review of the Amstrad edition of the … Continue reading
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