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‘Fox’ (C64) game found

Posted: 22-02-2011 by Frank Gasking

An early preview of a C64 game called ‘Fox’ has been found and preserved over at gtw64: Check it out at: http://www.gtw64.co.uk

Posted in: Commodore 64 (C64), News | Leave a comment

‘La Venganza del Toro’ C64 recovery

Posted: 17-03-2023, last updated: 16-03-2023 by Frank Gasking

A new recovery thanks to Retroboy – an unfinished and early bullfighting game for the C64 called ‘La Venganza del Toro’. This has been added today into the GTW64 archives, which you can now check out for yourselves at https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/la-venganza-del-toro/ … Continue reading →

‘Zap’ and ‘Krystal connection’ releases

Posted: 26-09-2010, last updated: 28-06-2023 by Frank Gasking

A while back you may remember when we mentioned the Zap BBC game which was being uncovered by Jamie Woodhouse (Creator of Quak on the Amiga/PC and GBA) which never got released, well Retro Software have recently picked up the … Continue reading →

Posted in: BBC Micro / Electron, News | Leave a comment

40+ Years Lost: Stairway to the Stars (Commodore VIC-20) Finally Recovered!

Posted: 01-08-2025 by Frank Gasking

After more than 40 years lost to time, Stairway to the Stars (the third game in Mike Taylor’s Magic Mirror Commodore VIC-20 adventure series) has finally been saved! And it’s been a long journey… Continue reading →

Posted in: Commodore VIC-20, News | Tagged: Full game available | 4 Comments

A talk at Retro Collective

Posted: 24-02-2025 by Frank Gasking

Just had the most fantastic weekend at Retro Collective with my wife, Tasha, giving a talk on Games That Weren’t and the digital preservation of unreleased games over the past 25 years or so. A huge thank you to Neil … Continue reading →

Posted in: GTW64 news, News, Press | 3 Comments

A treasure trove of PlayStation prototypes

Posted: 21-03-2021, last updated: 06-04-2021 by Frank Gasking

We are blessed to have a number of various preservation projects dedicated to unreleased/prototype games, especially with the vast number of platforms out there to try and preserve for. The Hidden Palace have for many years been preserving various prototypes … Continue reading →

Posted in: News, Sony, Sony PlayStation, Sony PlayStation 2 | Leave a comment

A video look at Total Recall V1

Posted: 24-05-2023 by Frank Gasking

Following on from the recent recovery of Total Recall V1 – we today take a detailed video look at the prototype, the story of its search and how it was found. Including highlighting of differences from the original Zzap!64 preview … Continue reading →

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adidas Championship Football -recovered

Posted: 24-03-2023, last updated: 30-06-2023 by Frank Gasking

Only a few copies were ever sold of adidas Championship Football in France by Ocean Software. A handful of copies were known to exist, but were yet to be preserved. This changed on the 22nd March thanks to Galahad, with … Continue reading →

Posted in: Commodore Amiga, News | Tagged: Full game available | 2 Comments

AGTW blows the lid on CyberSpace

Posted: 18-05-2021, last updated: 30-06-2023 by Frank Gasking

It wasn’t too long ago when we did a short post on the unreleased Amiga edition of Empire’s CyberSpace. In the meantime, Amiga Games That Weren’t and Adrian Simpson were digging further already and were in touch with much of … Continue reading →

Posted in: Commodore Amiga, News, PC | Tagged: No download available | Leave a comment

aGTW update – Feb 2010

Posted: 26-09-2010, last updated: 21-08-2021 by Frank Gasking

Head over to Amiga Games That Weren’t for four new entries! Amiga Putty Squad isnt the only version of that game which wasnt released. aGTWs detour into the world of the Playstation 2 and the unreleased Putty Squad PS2 fills … Continue reading →

Posted in: Commodore Amiga, News | Leave a comment

AMC’89 Konix sources released

Posted: 03-01-2013, last updated: 20-09-2020 by Frank Gasking

Following on from the exciting launch of the Konix Multi-system emulator and a runnable preview of AMC’89, the guys from the Slipstream: The Konix Multi-system archive have now released the sources which can be grabbed from here: https://github.com/SavourySnaX/AOTMC89 This has … Continue reading →

Posted in: Konix MultiSystem, News | Leave a comment

Amiga Addict – Dick Special article

Posted: 13-01-2026 by Frank Gasking

In the latest Amiga Addict magazine, we have contributed an article on the unreleased Dick Special series, which talks about not only Sandy White’s original development – but also the Activision and Miracle Games versions that followed afterwards.

For more details, including ordering – please check out the link below:

https://www.addict.media/amiga-addict/amiga-addict-magazine Continue reading →

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Amiga Addict CD32 Games That Weren’t special

Posted: 09-10-2023 by Frank Gasking

Games That Weren’t features in the press this month in various forms, with an Amiga CD32 Games That Weren’t piece in the latest Amiga Addict magazine (CD32 special to celebrate 30 years), and also an interview with Amstrad Addict (an … Continue reading →

Posted in: General, GTW64 news, News, Press | Leave a comment

Amiga assets – “Stop Saddam”

Posted: 28-03-2016, last updated: 30-06-2023 by Frank Gasking

Thanks to ‘Lifeschool’ for the heads up, where Mark Sibly gave a quick interview to talk about Gloom. Another contributor on the forum gave details of an Australian game in development called “Stop Saddam”.

Posted in: Commodore Amiga, News | Tagged: Assets available | Leave a comment

AMRWolf AGA & Dent A Wolf / DentECTS / Dentaku-26 AGA

Posted: 20-09-2010, last updated: 21-08-2021 by Frank Gasking

Amiga Games That Werent dips into the deep pool of unreleased Wolfenstein 3D and Doom clone engines on the Amiga: Alastair M. Robinsons AMRWolf is an early texture-mapped and ray casting engine created using the Amigas Copper Chunky mode and … Continue reading →

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Angel of Hell 2 game recovered

Posted: 08-02-2012, last updated: 03-09-2021 by Frank Gasking

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 →

Posted in: Commodore 64 (C64), News | 3 Comments

Astrology – Atari prototype recovered

Posted: 31-01-2024 by Frank Gasking

Atari Mania are on it again, with a Atari 400/800 prototype recovered by John Hardie. This time an Astrology program which was developed in 1982. http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-astrology_42800.html This is what Atari Mania posted about it on AtariAge’s forums: “It seems Astrology was only … Continue reading →

Posted in: Atari 400/800/XL, News, Prototype | Leave a comment

Atari Addict released, including GTW feature!

Posted: 09-12-2024 by Frank Gasking

Atari Addict landed this weekend, and David Crookes has done an amazing job putting this #Atari special together with many different features across many platforms. We also had the honor of writing the unreleased games segment too! To order, visit: … Continue reading →

Posted in: Atari, Atari 2600 / Atari VCS, Atari 400/800/XL, Atari 7800, Atari Falcon, Atari Jaguar, Atari Jaguar CD, Atari Lynx, Atari ST, News, Press | Leave a comment

Atari ST protos recovered from Mark R. Jones disks

Posted: 20-07-2014, last updated: 20-09-2020 by Frank Gasking

Over the last week, various prototypes have been saved from a bunch of disks which were found by Mark R Jones, which include the following (clickable links to Atari Mania pages): Starquake 2 (Unreleased) Version 1.3.1992 Version 19.3.1992 Caspar The … Continue reading →

Posted in: Atari ST, News | Leave a comment

Atari ST unreleased games

Posted: 26-09-2010, last updated: 20-09-2020 by Frank Gasking

Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni for the heads up on these 3 Atari ST games which never saw the light of day, including the recently recovered Highway Encounter game (Which is believed to be pretty much complete, though lacking on music). … Continue reading →

Posted in: Atari ST, News | Leave a comment

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