Documenting unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games.
2017 Eric Hilaire Platform: Commodore Vic 20 Our next VIC-20 entry is sadly one only announced in recent years as a new development. A conversion of System 3’s classic one-on-one fighter International Karate. Started in 2017 by Eric Hilaire and … 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
1992 Strangeways Platform: Commodore Amiga and Super Nintendo Our next entry is a very early title that was flagged up to us by team member Karl Kuras, who spotted this interesting early Smash TV-looking title that was due for release … Continue reading
A quick post thanks to team member Grzegorz Antosiewicz, who has found a set of early Crazy Cars 3 screenshots in Generation 4 magazine from June 1991, which show a very different looking game overall to the one that was … Continue reading
Following on from the recent PC DOS release of an unreleased conversion of Team 17’s Overdrive thanks to Damiano Gerli, GTW’s Grzegorz Antosiewicz dug out a series of early screens from the game. Overall showing many differences and features not … Continue reading
1997 Miracle FX Productions Platform: Commodore Amiga 1200 An interesting title for the Commodore Amiga that was highlighted to us by contributor Ivan and was reviewed in Amiga Format magazine back in July 1997. Although a decent enough looking platformer … Continue reading
1982 Commodore Platform: Commodore Vic 20 A short entry for a title that we are not 100% certain at this stage was ever started, but has featured for years on the Ward Shrake Vapourware list. The list contains a number … Continue reading
1982 Commodore Platform: Commodore Vic 20 A short entry for a title that we are not 100% certain at this stage was ever started, but has featured for years on the Ward Shrake Vapourware list. The list contains a number … Continue reading
1982 Commodore Platform: Commodore Vic 20 A short entry for a title that we are not 100% certain at this stage was ever started, but has featured for years on the Ward Shrake Vapourware list. The list contains a number … Continue reading
198? Guido Henkel Platform: Commodore Vic 20 Hellowoon was a graphic text adventure that was released on the Atari ST and C64 around 1987 by Ariolasoft, and was written by Guido Henkel. In an interview on Atarilegend.com, Guido reveals that … Continue reading
1996 Szymon Ulatowski Platform: Amiga 1200 A short entry for a title highlighted to us by contributor Stefano Castelli. This is an unofficial Boulder Dash clone done within a 3D environment. Even though you may argue about how well a … Continue reading
1992 Konami / Hero Software Platform: PC (DOS), Amiga and Apple Mac Champions was a RPG table-top title created by Hero Games originally back in 1981. Setting you within a superhero/comic book themed world, it won a legion of fans, … Continue reading
Following on from the recent console cancellation of Myth covered on the site, team member Grzegorz Antosiewicz got in touch to highlight a series of changes to the Amiga/ST editions of Myth. What follows is based mostly on the text … 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
Breathless is a FPS game for the Amiga that was released in late 1995, and was shown in the press a lot at the time over the years. As a result, there were a number of early screens and demos … Continue reading
1982 Epyx Platform: Commodore Vic 20 A short entry until we can confirm that there was indeed a Commodore VIC-20 conversion. Alien Garden was a computer generated art game, where you control an embryonic life-form that you must try and … Continue reading
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