Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
We are an Cancelled & Unreleased 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 lost 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 lost video game history online since 1999, and long before that offline.
Please Browse our archive and discover the many entries that we host for many different platforms.
Another GTW64 update which includes:
Octopussy, Rent-a-cop Reloaded, System 15000 sequel
Includes many credit fixes, a full version of James Fly added and more!
Alloyrun, Aurum, Babylon, Balls Of The Scrolling Thunder, Dynablaster, Empire Strikes Back, Hydrogenese, James Fly, Outrun Europe, Shove, Star of Africa, Toi Acid Game, Twin Balls, Woodshoot, Zwei Bereten
A huge thank you to Christina Burroughs for her kind contribution to our gamesthatwerent.com domain costs for this year!
This now concludes our donations for 2014, so many thanks to everyone who donated!
A long lost John Vanderaart game called Aurum has been found and recovered via a chance copy from a party back in the 80’s and preserved. Not only has it been preserved, but the past few months have seen a painstaking translation job done on the game before releasing it today.
A great graphic text adventure, which is well worth checking out! A huge shame it never got released, but here it is now! Enjoy!
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/aurum/
EDIT – Dutch original now included in the downloads. Stupidly forgot to include it first time!
A huge thank you to Vinny Mainolfi for his kind contribution to our gamesthatwerent.com domain costs for this year!
A huge thank you to Andreas Wanda and Kevin Tilley for your kind contribution to our domain and hosting costs for this year!
Following on from other recent recoveries comes another title which has been fixed up by Fix, Bieno, Pugsy and Jazzcat over the past few months. This time another full game which was meant to have seen the light of day back in 1994 – but never made it only merely due to no testing being carried out.
More details and download can be found at:
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/single-extreme-freedom/
After 23 years of being missing, possibly the final remaining copy of Graham Gooch World Class Cricket (the original version for the C64 as reviewed by Commodore Format in issue 12) has been recovered and preserved.
Graham Gooch World Class Cricket
In addition to this, we have also added a new entry:
A huge thank you to LDX#40 and Jan Schulze for your kind contribution to our domain and hosting costs for this year!
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.
Please note that donations only cover our hosting/domain costs, and that we remain a purely non-profit project. Each year we will try and raise money to cover our costs. Once we hit our target, no more donations will be accepted. More details can be found on our Donation page.
Thank you!
A nice big update for June, which includes the full preservation of Pluff, which has been missing for many years. Also included are two home brew titles which were done back in the day by a game creator and long forgotten about.
And there is more to come soon, with another long lost title found and currently being tidied up for release. A clue is that it is World Cup related, but not football.. and it has been reviewed in a major UK magazine. Watch this space, but for now enjoy the updates!
Captain Future, Death Trap, It Came From The Desert, Night Walker
Arcade Classics 2, Batman 3D, C64GS cartridge titles, Chuck Rock, Circus Fun!, Damocles, Darius +, Fire & Forget, Gi Hero, Heavy Barrel, Judge Death, Mach 3, Manhatten Dealers, Old Scores, Seal Cull, Search For Sharla, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Spellcast, Streethawk, The Blues Brothers, The Seven Gates Of Jambala, Unnamed helecopter game, Victory Road (UK version), Viking Child, Virus, Whirligig
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