Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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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!
Our friends at Atarimania.com have informed us of the recovery of an unreleased text adventure for the Atari 400/800 called The Ronin which has been missing for 39 years. A game that was intended for release eventually by Brøderbund Software, who … 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. As well as talking to the developers involved in the game, there are screenshots … Continue reading
1999 Runecraft Platform: Sony PlayStation A short entry for what was to be an educational based title created for the Sony PlayStation by Runecraft around 1999 time, based on the famous children’s series. Thanks to lead artist David Tolley, we … Continue reading
Before and since the recovery of the infamous Sigue Sigue Sputnik from oblivion, we wanted to always learn more about the game via its creator, Tony (Gibbo) Gibson. Attempts had been in vain though sadly. Mark Harrison popped up early … Continue reading
Lost for 33 years, we are pleased to announce the recovery of the original abandoned development of Total Recall for the Commodore 64! So happy to finally see those old Zzap!64 screens in motion after years of searching! Full story … Continue reading
Now for something which isn’t worth a full entry on the GTW64 site, but is worthy of a mention. Recently a prototype of System 3’s 1991 racer/shooter Turbocharge on the Commodore 64 has been uncovered by TMR/Cosine, originally preserved to … Continue reading
Second update of the year with two new previews added to the site: Escape from London remains added An adventure game due for release for 2013 has now been added in what could be its final state. Full story about … Continue reading
Thanks to Paul Clansey, we have fully preserved two of his unfinished games in the form of RPG game Freebooter and ambitious Elite style sim Exodus. Hoping for Paul to share more soon about how they both work, but check … Continue reading
Happy weekend everyone! Thanks to developer Adrian Longland and Retro Gamer magazine regular Paul Drury, we are pleased to present a complete and unreleased game for the ZX Spectrum called “Cloud Hopper”, as part of an upcoming interview with Adrian … Continue reading
Kevin Hall kindly got in touch recently to inform us about the start of some notes made on unreleased Dreamcast games over at Reddit.com We hope to have more Dreamcast related materials on the site soon, but for now check … Continue reading
A surprise to kick off the weekend for you all, with the full and unreleased Mirage game that was never released by Mark Clements. Mark was better known for his Summer and Winter Camp music, but also did a lot … Continue reading
Thanks to The Dizzy Fansite, we have learnt of three new unreleased ZX Spectrum games that were intended for release by Codemasters back in the day. Two were complete, called Alea (created in 1987) and Hovercar Simulator (1989/91), with another … Continue reading
Catalypse was a pretty nifty C64 sideways shooter which challenged the likes of Armalyte and Delta towards the end of the C64s lifetime. Sadly Zzap 64 were strangely critical of the game and gave it a low mark, although the … 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
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