Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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A quick GTW64 update from us to present the first piece of Search For Sharla seen for over 20 years in the shape of the end sequence, thanks to the work of Andy Roberts and Vinny Mainolfi. In addition to … Continue reading
Thanks to Ross Sillifant, Simon Butler sheds some light on a lost Arc Developments ST game: Ross: So, Simon, what could you tell us about various ARC Development titles on ST/AMIGA you were a key part of? Simon: Blimey I’d … Continue reading
Copied and pasted directly from the post on the Retro Gamer forum, but pretty much says it all: Six previously unreleased Atari VCS/2600 games that were developed by Jerry Lawsons company, Video Soft, are at last being released! The games … Continue reading
Author of the Codemasters graphic adventure Slightly Magic, Colin Jones, has set up a new Kickstarter project to resurrect the game in a 8-bit legacy edition (with faithfulness to the original graphics), but also with an extra special incentive which … Continue reading
Evan Gowan over at the excellent Snes Central website has produced a fantastic and heavily researched/documented article on Starfox 2, giving the most complete story about the game that has so far been seen. Id highly recommend checking it out! … Continue reading
Following on swiftly from the amazing recovery of Monster Muncher on the VIC-20, we now have the Commodore 64 edition of Stargate by Atarisoft for you. A long lost development by Tom Griner which has been part of our search … Continue reading
Fifteen Starpath cassettes were discovered in Dallas, Texas last week, along with three Supercharger units. The Supercharger was in add-on module that expanded the RAM of the 2600 from 128 bytes to 6,272 bytes. This module, which connected to a … Continue reading
A huge thank you to Christina Burroughs for her kind contribution to our gamesthatwerent.com domain costs for this year! This now concludes our donations for 2014, so many thanks to everyone who donated!
Within only a week we have covered our hosting costs thanks to fantastic contributions from Brandon Cobb, Vinny Mainolfi and Jan Schulze. Thanks guys, your contributions were very humbling and helps keep things ticking over for us. As a result … Continue reading
Just wanted to say a big thanks for all the very kind contributions to our hosting and domain costs, which was completed thanks to Mark Campbell (a full list of all our contributors can be found on the donations page). … Continue reading
We just wanted to post to say a huge thank you to contributor LiqMatrix who blew us away today by donating our entire hosting and domain costs for the year. I had not put out a call for hosting donations … 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
And that is a wrap for 2024. Merry Xmas and happy holidays to everyone! Thank you all for your kind support in what has been a tough year and hope you have enjoyed the archive this year. Having a well … Continue reading
A big thanks to Andreas Wanda for his very kind donation, which has completed our hosting costs for 2013/2014. Many thanks to all our contributors who have helped to keep GTW going! :)
A big thanks to Roy Fielding for his recent contribution towards our hosting costs! Many thanks! :)
A big thanks to Vinny Mainolfi and Gary Spence for their recent donation towards our hosting costs! Only a week in, and we’re almost half way there! Many thanks!
After a long rescue mission, at long last the lost C64 conversion of The Bubbler has been found and released. The added bonus is that the game is fully complete, containing the loading picture, music and sfx. Developer Matt Young, … Continue reading
After 5 years of work (give or take), we’re pleased to announce The Games That Weren’t book coming soon in May 2020 from Bitmap Books, covering unreleased games since the dawn of the industry. More details coming soon, but very … Continue reading
The Heart of Neon kickstarter has launched today. I saw a special showcase at #zzaplive last year and it was an amazing documentary on the great Jeff Minter and Llamasoft. This was an instant backing – more details below: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dokk/the-heart-of-neon-blu-ray?ref=thanks-tweet
GTW recently helped online games journalist Larry Bundy Jr with research and information on the Thundercats game series by Elite, including the two unreleased titles. And the final result has been published last week. Here it is, enjoy!
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