Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Viking was to be an ambitious adventure game that was to cast you as a Viking warrior (e.g., Erik, Leif, or Thorwald) with the ultimate goal of living a worthy life and earning a place in Valhalla. Rather than following a strict storyline or mission structure, the game would encourage freedom, exploration, and role-playing, allowing you to create your own saga. Continue reading
1992 Atari Games Platform: Atari Lynx As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus content to share with you. Within the book is a … Continue reading
Virocop is an often overlooked classic Amiga game by Graftgold that was released in 1995, a spiritual sequel of sorts to the likes of Quazatron and Magnetron that you may have missed. If you did, then check it out! Thanks … Continue reading
1995 Peakstar Software / SEGA Platforms: SEGA 32X and Saturn As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus DLC content to share with … Continue reading
A very short post to flag up some unused assets that were intended for the Psygnosis classic – Walker, thanks to Karl Kuras for highlighting. Tucked away in a Work In Progress feature within The One magazine (issue 47), screens … Continue reading
1988-1993 NEC Platform: PC Engine Aka: Wardner no Mori and Wardona Forest Toaplan’s Wardner is a side scrolling platformer, similar in some ways to Ghosts n Goblins, and was ported to a number of platforms over the years. One version … Continue reading
1994 Dave Gibbons and Steve Day Platforms: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC Also known as: Exploding Fist Ten years after the release of the Commodore 64 classic Way Of The Exploding Fist, there were plans for an Amiga and … Continue reading
1995 Software Creations / Interplay Platforms: 3DO and Sony PlayStation As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus DLC content to share with … Continue reading
After a few months offline, Games That Weren’t is back – with a slightly new lick of paint – though not too dissimilar to the old site. So what happened?… Unfortunately the hosting disappeared and bang went all our content. … Continue reading
I say “welcome”, but Fabrizio is already a very well known face to Games That Weren’t, and has been for many years now. When looking at our team page and doing some tidy-ups, I realised that we have a number … Continue reading
Following on from the addition of Fabrizio Bartoloni to the GTW team, we now welcome another three members who have made many a contribution to the archive: Karl Kuras Grzegorz Antosiewicz Ross Sillifant This was as a result of having … Continue reading
Along our web travels an interview with Australian Gamer Joseph Hewitt, a man involved in Command & Conquer, Dune II, Kyrandia and Lands of Lore, to name a few classics, was discovered and which informed readers about three Westwood games … Continue reading
1991 Broderbund Platform: PC DOS A short entry to kick off for now, and whilst more information is uncovered. It seems that back in 1991, a Star Wars spin on the classic Carmen Sandiego games was on the cards. Broderbund … Continue reading
Just a reminder that we have various social media outlets, where we also do regular news updates and posts from the site (as well as other prototype and unreleased games communities). If you use one of the following, then please … Continue reading
A quick post to highlight another C64 title preserved, thanks to the efforts of Allan Pinkerton, who has been slowly helping to recover a large number of unpreserved educational titles for the platform. Today we see the release of Whole … Continue reading
1994 TBA Software Platform: Acorn Archimedes Wing Star was the start of a new journey for developer Martin Piper, though he didn’t quite know it at the time. As you might well guess, the game was heavily inspired by the … 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
A small post on an earlier build of Wizard of Wor that has been highlighted to us by Roberto Nicoletti. Some years ago, Jeff Bruette released all of the source code to the game, which was then very carefully compiled … Continue reading
Some years ago I was talking on the Lemon 64 of a strange recollection of a rather different looking version of the C64 Wonderboy. I had the budget edition of the game, which I played to death – but also … Continue reading
Today we add a very different and early prototype of World Class Rugby for the Super Nintendo, dated from July 1992, and some time before the final release. The engine seems quite different from the final version, with completely different … Continue reading
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