Unreleased & Cancelled Video Games across many platforms.
We are an Unreleased and Cancelled Video games archive with prototypes, developer history and assets for many computers and consoles of all ages. A non-profit large archive dedicated to preserving games that were never released to the public. Sharing history and stories from the developers, assets and more before it is too late. GTW has been preserving video game history since 1999.
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!
A large update for July, including the Ball game – we have also been in touch with Andrew Rodger (thanks to Andrew Fisher), who has helped shed more light on the Robotronics titles as well as some new titles too. Here are the updates in full…
Castle Boy, Lemonoids, Shuttle, Starburst, Stratagos, Terravasion, Zuid
Ball, Cosmic Shock Absorber, Cyber Attack, Kid Saviour, Last Ninja V1, Mole Squash, Ski Run, Solaris, Spix, The War of the Dragon, Unknown Educational game
Games That Weren’t is a freely ran project, 100% non-profitable and done in our own free time. To ensure minimum downtime, storing vast amounts of scans, downloads and information we unfortunately have to pay for hosting.
If you would like to help us to keep GTW and GTW64 running, then you are welcome to make a donation of any size by using the donation button on the side of every page (at the bottom, and out of the way), or via our Donation page.
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Thank you!
Thanks to Joachim Wijnhoven, a long lost game called Ball by Dream Systems from 1989 has been recovered. This is a preview which comes with two separate files showing two different levels and some great presentation.
Still early days with no sound, but now to find out what happened. Check out the preview for now…
And so the updates continue. A lot of new entries, but also a number of updates with additional scans and bits from CCI, CU and ACE magazine:
Chainsaw Warrior, Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness, Jungle Book, Peter Pan, Terrific Land, The War of the Dragon, Unnamed Pacman clone, Vigilante V1
Bamboo, Bobby Yazz Show, Halo Jones, Heavy Barrel, Kid Niki, Lock On, Paddle Mania, The Terminator, Universal Military Simulator
Been a few weeks, so here is a new GTW64 update with some more bits and pieces added and updated:
Boxing Game, Snow Bros (unofficial), Up in the air
Argonavtica, Babylon, Commodore Format Demo, Cosmic Shock Absorber, F-86 Sabre Strike, Milk Tray Game, Parasol Stars, Pulsator, Quark, Ski Run, Software House, Space Raider, Super Contra, Unknown platformer
1993 Codemasters
Code – Colin Jones
Graphics – Keith Ross
Music – Allister Brimble (?)
This game is one of the rumoured unreleased 22 Codemasters games which one day we hope to track down and bring to you, like Codemasters should have done a long time ago.
This game was to be the sequel to Slightly Magic by Colin Jones, which Ian Gray converted from the Spectrum version. We guess that the game would have pretty much been more of the same using the same engine.
The Spectrum entry at the World of Spectrum website states that the game was a finished but unreleased game on the Amiga. We spoke to Colin Jones, who confirmed this and also confirmed that the 8-bit versions were already being cut back when he completed the Amiga version. Where Colin talks about 8-bit versions, we only know that allegedly the ZX Spectrum was started but never finished. Continue reading
Vinny Mainolfi of C64 Endings has very kindly compiled a downloadable archive of all the current GTW64 downloads. This is in a friendly format which you can copy to your 1541 Ultimate or similar device to be able to browse and load as you wish.
Grab it from here:
http://www.c64endings.freeolamail.com/files/GTW1541U2archive24-05-13.zip
It seems that there have been issues for some time with our contact form on the GTW site, with emails not getting sent for at least a few months. This is likely due to security updates on the hosting we are on, which we were unaware of. Things are now working again thankfully!
If you have sent any information to us via the contact form, and have not had a response – this is why i’m afraid. Our apologies to those who have therefore not had a response, and we ask if you could contact us again if you did have any information to submit!
Many thanks!
More from GTW64, including a previously unseen platformer preview (in its early days) thanks to Joachim Wijnhoven. It is believed it could be the long lost Kid Saviour game by Roy Fielding… more on that soon! :)
Beavers, Biff V1, Darius +, Mega Twins, Mutant Zone, The Punisher
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