‘Fox’ (C64) game found
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
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‘La Venganza del Toro’ C64 recovery
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
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‘Zap’ and ‘Krystal connection’ releases
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
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40+ Years Lost: Stairway to the Stars (Commodore VIC-20) Finally Recovered!
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
A talk at Retro Collective
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
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A treasure trove of PlayStation prototypes
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
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A video look at Total Recall V1
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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Additional recovered assets for Sarge’s Heroes and F1-X
Thanks to Louise Herd, further recovered graphical assets have been added for Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes (Gameboy Advance) and F1-X (Gameboy Advance and Gameboy Color). Links below: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/06/army-men-sarges-heroes/ https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/01/f1-x-working-title/
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adidas Championship Football -recovered
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
AGTW blows the lid on CyberSpace
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
aGTW update – Feb 2010
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
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AMC’89 Konix sources released
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
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Amiga Addict – Dick Special article
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:
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Amiga Addict CD32 Games That Weren’t special
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
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Amiga assets – “Stop Saddam”
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”.
AMRWolf AGA & Dent A Wolf / DentECTS / Dentaku-26 AGA
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
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
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Astrology – Atari prototype recovered
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
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Atari 8-bit version of Trap recovered
Another great update from Bertrand / Atari Frog from AtariMania.com , who have recovered a rare Atari 8-bit prototype of Alligata Software’s Trap. A very advanced preview which is quite faithful to the C64 original at this stage.
The preservation work is thanks to John Hardie (National Videogame Museum) and to Stephen Goss (Harlequin Software founder) for allowing the archival of the game. It is unknown why the game was never released, but AtariMania suggest it could be to do with turmoil within Alligata at the time before the company shut down. Continue reading
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Atari Addict released, including GTW feature!
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
