Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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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
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
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
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
Recently had the pleasure of chatting with the lovely Wayne Goodchild at eneba.com about retro games, preservation, and current developments (beyond just Games That Weren’t). Continue reading
Mark Greenshields and Darren Melbourne have a great chat with The Retro Hour podcast this week about how they got into game development, and the birth of Enigma Variations. Including discussions about the recent recovery work through Games That Weren’t: Continue reading
A little bit behind at the moment, but just to share that work at Games That Weren’t has been highlighted in a new Retro Gamer article on Enigma Variations in issue 280. The feature in particular takes a look at many games that were never released by the development studio, many of which were preserved by us last year. Quick photos below, but text blurred out. Continue reading
Below are a collection of articles and interviews where we talk about the Games That Weren’t project over the last 5 years or so. Continue reading
Things have mostly paused with updates and preservation work for Games That Weren’t due to the recent loss of my mum. Today though, I’m finally able to share some positive news: a Polish edition of the Games That Weren’t book is now available for pre-order: https://gknb.pl/ Continue reading
This is so cool! A lovely surprise for this morning that the GTW book is getting a cameo in a new game coming soon on Steam called Astro Burn – which I wasn’t expecting at all! It’s a heavy blunt instrument, so may prove useful in hand-to-hand combat if Kitty ever needs! Continue reading
We are pleased to announce that Games That Weren’t will have a display at Play Blackpool this 3rd and 4th May. In collaboration with Andy Brown of Replay Events, we have helped pick a number of games for various consoles … Continue reading
Just had a fantastic time at Zzap Live in Kenilworth over the two days with my friend Brian ONeill, catching up with lots of friends old and new (and a bit of gaming). Thank you everyone who came to heckle … Continue reading
Video is now live of the recent Games That Weren’t talk at The Retro Collective. Hope you enjoy it and thank you so much to The Cave for hosting us. A fantastic place which I hope many of you will … Continue reading
Recently, we were kindly invited to write a guest article for www.GOG.com on some of the PC/Mac games that we have covered in the book, as well as talk about the work involved in the writing of the book. You … Continue reading
Morning all – just wanted to give a heads up that i’ll be doing a Games That Weren’t talk at the amazing Zzap Live event this month in Kenilworth. The GTW book will be on sale too via Sega Mags … Continue reading
GTW64 was on display recently at the Play Expo 2013 in Manchester at Event City. It was a great weekend, where we got to chat to many developers – including Steve Wahid regarding his Streethawk work. Below you can find … Continue reading
I had the pleasure of being a guest on the “Nice and Nasty Gaming Podcast” with Mamemeister recently! We chatted about Games That Weren’t, how I first got into gaming, and picked out three games I’d take to a desert … Continue reading
Nintendo Life have published a chapter from The Games That Weren’t book, which takes a look at the unreleased Virtual Tank game by Boss Game Studio. Continue reading
The 2025 Zzap!64 annual has arrived and looks great! The biggest surprise was the six page Games That Weren’t tribute feature by Ian Osborne, who had created the article that inspired it all. Talking about how some of the titles … Continue reading
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