Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Some huge news from Games That Weren’t, where we believe the first complete game for the MSU-era multisystem (evolved from the unreleased Konix Multisystem) has been preserved. However, the amazing Konix Multisystem emulator by Lee Hammerton has been built around … Continue reading
Missing for 35 years, a preview of the long lost Hydrogenese on the Commodore 64 has finally been recovered by CBA/SCS+TRC. A brilliant early look at what could have been an amazing space shooter! In addition to the shooter part … Continue reading
The amazing Ken Van Mersbergen has done it again, this time with the miraculous preservation of Imagic’s Moonsweeper for the Commodore VIC-20. A conversion missing for 42 years has now been painstakingly restored from printed source code by Ken, with help from Simon Rowe and Torsten Okra. It is also thanks to the game’s programmer Fred Crimi that the code had been safely kept. Continue reading
A huge Commodore 64 surprise to kick off the week with Games That Weren’t adding the sadly cancelled playable prototype of the Indiana Jones 3 adventure. An unofficial conversion of the great Lucasfilm Games title with bags of promise, but wasn’t to be. Continue reading
A long lost and unreleased version of Indy Heat has been packaged up and released, but only 50 limited edition copies will be available. So if you want to grab a copy, then check out the Atari Age forums for … Continue reading
As part of our Christmas 2024 GTW64 update – our next post isn’t quite unreleased games material, but are a set of yet unpreserved Polish games that were released in 1994 and have been preserved thanks to Marcin ‘Tenchi’ Świętoniewski. … Continue reading
Great news, but collector Ken Van Mersbergen (known to many as Dutchman2000) has found and preserved the long lost AtariSoft conversion of Joust, which we have had an entry on for some time here. Ken got in touch with GTW … Continue reading
After many months of development and the recent discovery of the remains of AMC’89, the Konix Emulator has finally been completed and the first public version made available. It is a monumental release of an emulator for a console that … Continue reading
Mark Campbell, webmaster of the Konix Multisystem archive, has informed Games That Weren’t that at long last a game has been recovered for the Konix Multisystem. It has been many long years of trying to find remains of development from … Continue reading
Well, following on from the release of Fun School Special, we have a special update this time with not one new finding – but 7 previously unseen and unreleased games/previews – thanks to the efforts of Duncan Kershaw, who has … Continue reading
An amazing update on the recent discovery of the Last Ninja 2 disks for the Konix Multi-system. One disk has been read so far, and the results have been very positive – with the game being now emulated and running! … Continue reading
Some amazing news through today from Mark Campbell (who runs the fantastic Konix Multisystem site), that a copy of Last Ninja 2 on the Konix Multisystem has been found by an ex-developer at Attention to Detail, Jon Steele. It is … Continue reading
A quick news post to highlight that System 3 have launched a new Kickstarter to release a special Last Ninja collection on various platforms including PS5, PS4, Switch and PC. Why are we reporting this? Well, the Diamond Ultimate Collection … Continue reading
After some digging around and very careful tape backing up, Jeff Minter has discovered and released a whole range of unseen Llamasoft games on the Vic 20 platform (and one on the Commodore PET). In maybe a weekend of preservation … Continue reading
Thanks to Ken Knight for bringing it to our attention that the long lost Mega Drive conversion of Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth has recently been released by independent publisher Columbus Circle, some 26 years after it was intended originally. … Continue reading
Thanks to Peter Weighill for the heads up, but some exciting developments over at the World of Spectrum as Mark R Jones has uncovered a rather rare and previously unpreserved clone of the arcade game Popeye cheekily called “Popie“. Popie … Continue reading
A great article has been published regarding the unreleased Jack The Ripper for Amiga and with mock-ups for an abandoned online version for PC. Thanks to https://mastodon.world/@mr_creosote@dosgame.club for sharing. https://goodolddays.net/en/game/Jack-the-Ripper/ Any new info or snippets, we’ll add to the gallery … Continue reading
I’ve been chatting to two guys called Simon and Ekkehard, who used to develop a lot of Vic 20 games back in the day. In recent times, they had tried to recover their long lost work – but were having … Continue reading
A very short post to highlight some unreleased Magnavox Odyssey 2 unreleased games and prototypes flagged up by Fabrizio Bartoloni: Terrahawks (Prototype) Tutankham (GTW) Spider-Man (Prototype) If you haven’t seen these before, then worth checking out – especially the detailed … Continue reading
Right under our noses all along! The long “lost” Commodore 64 Codemasters game Magnum Force has finally been fully preserved today thanks to Nostalgia, after being hidden on the Codemasters CD compilation and undetected for over 30 years. Check it … Continue reading
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