Documenting unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games.
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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.
Another surprise finding, this time of an aborted early conversion of Codemasters’ Tarzan Goes Ape game, which looks very different to the final released version, with far better graphics.
It isn’t sadly too playable, but you can sort of move the character around and use Q and A to scroll the map. Download the preview and checkout the story behind its finding here:
Not seen even by Simon since 1989, we are proud to present the infamous road routine which Simon produced to prove a point to Mark Kelly after seeing Turbo Outrun.
It’s not playable, but was all that was produced and a great finding! Read more about how it was found in the entry!
Yet another PAL developments game has been fully recovered and released, and its another full game.
Thanks to sterling work by Dean Hickingbottom to recover the game from his C64 disks and recompile it after 26 years, we are proud to present this conversion of a Spectrum/Amstrad game that should have been released across all formats by PAL developments, but for reasons unknown, never got out the door. Enjoy!
A short GTW64 update to keep things moving and show some quick updates that have been going on.
After 30 years of being missing, a preview build of Nuclear Nick has been recovered by Peepo and the guys at Triad. Check it out!…
Something I was beginning to think I would never get to say!
Just over 18 years worth of searching for Games That Weren’t – we are very proud to to present the fully recovered “Daffy Duck – And The Great Paint Caper”. It’s been some journey for us, but the full game was recovered in PDS source form and carefully constructed over the past month or so. Full details can be read in the main entry about how the game was found, and of course how we ever got to this stage.
Finally, you can now play the game as Hi-tec intended – and it certainly lives up to its glowing review from Zzap 64. Seasoned gamers will have no problem getting through it, but it is an important piece of C64 history now digitally preserved for posterity and which could well have been lost forever. Enjoy! :)
Eagle-eyed visitors may have noticed our cryptic note on the end of our last GTW64 news update. Well, we have something a little special for you coming up on the site, and hopefully a bit of Christmas come early.
It’s almost ready, so keep your eyes and ears out on the site for the big news coming soon.
Time to go back to being all cryptic and all that!
;-)
Wow, has it really been since April when I did a GTW64 update? Well, the updates have been happening since then, but I haven’t done a digest of what has changed, so here it is below. But also, we have some surprises for you in the shape of 4 new releases! Details below!
Remains of Carleton Handley’s abandoned budget Armalyte clone has been recovered by GTW and re-constructed by Carleton for you to all enjoy…
Remains of what seems to be an abandoned Picross clone has been added…
An obscure preview title which was found on Jukka TapanimÁ¤ki’s online disk archive…
A 5 year search of a game that has been lost for over 30 years is now over, with the game’s developer recovering the title for GTW to put out there…
Another 16 new entries have also been added in the form of:
Black Hawk, Butch – Hard Guy, Coma, Coven, Double Dragon V1, Enforcer 2, M45, Maelstrom, New Zealand Story V1, Operation Gunship, Planet Quarx, Quark IX, Screaming Wings, The Black Onyx, Unknown adventure game, Wreckers
And many other updates, which notes can be seen in the update notes for each. Enjoy!
Airwolf V1, Arcadian, Arsenal FC, Body Slam, Bombzone, Captain Courageous, Charlie Chaplin, Coloris, Covert Action, Defensive, Dempsey & Makepeace, Dragon Slayer, Eye Of The Moon, Giana 2 – Arthur And Martha In Future World, Gotcha Maths, Gremlins, Guy Spy, Habitat, Hangman’s Hazard, Hydlide, Ice Age, International Karate Deluxe, International Karate V1, Jimmy’s Grandprix, Lone Wolf – Ice Halls Of Terror, Lord Of The Rings, Math Tutor, Murder!, Nighthunter, Parasol Stars, Primary Maths Tutor, Psionic, Pulsator, Sankara Stone, Scooby Doo V1, Shellshock, Shelter, Sketch And Paint, Sooty And Sweep 2, Star Maze, Swords And Sorcery, T-Runner, Tank Battle Simulator, The Abyss, Toddler Tutor, Trojan, Twister, Unknown Tony Crowther game, Vale Of Shadows, Who Dares Wins, Zamzara V1
Something is brewing at GTW64…. that is all….
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