Welcome to Games That Weren't!

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.

Latest News and Posts

Green Beret (C64) – earlier edition

Thanks to Ross Sillifant for highlighting yet another title which was looking a little different before its final release. Although not drastically different to the final game, there’s probably no harm flagging it up for a quick mention.

When Green Beret was reviewed in Commodore User magazine back in, they featured screenshots showing changes in the main score panel area. The main game area itself seems to be the same, and when someone wrote into the magazine to mention the differences between the review and the final version, CU stated that the game mechanics were exactly the same.

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C64 games still in production, not cancelled

Over the years, GTW64 has added titles to its archives which were mistakenly thought to have been abandoned and no longer in production.

Rather than just remove them and forget about them – we have created this page to list titles which are actually still confirmed by their authors as intended for completion. The thing with modern day productions is that there is no time-scale, and they could take years to be completed. The positive thing is that we could well see them finished!

So here we go – before suggesting any submissions to GTW64 – please ensure that it isn’t in the list below. If a game project ever gets cancelled, then it will go into the archive.

Anasthaia

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Armageddon

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Abrakadabra

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Astrostorm II

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Pac It

https://www.protovision.games/development/pacit.php?language=en

Hip Hop

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Sharla ending + Chuck Rock original downloads added

A quick GTW64 update from us to present the first piece of Search For Sharla seen for over 20 years in the shape of the end sequence, thanks to the work of Andy Roberts and Vinny Mainolfi.

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In addition to this Holger Klipsch has very kindly provided GTW with a backup of the original Chuck Rock on disk, which we have now added along with a scan of the instruction sheet. There are some other quick updates too, the full list can be found here:

Chuck Rock, Search For Sharla, The Seven Gates Of Jambala, Unnamed helecopter game

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More updates for GTW64 added

Continuing the stream of updates for 2014 and for April, some more updates to the archive.

2 new entries added

3D Pool V1, War in Middle Earth V1

14 updates added (details of each update under “Updates made” link for each game)

BMX Racers V1, Eye Of The Moon, Heart Of Yesod, Hijack, Hyper Galactic Warrior, Knuckles, Lusitania, Omega Ceti, Pentacle, Runestone, SDI, Stargate Legacy, Super Thief, Tyger Tyger

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Lost Vic 20 games found

I’ve been chatting to two guys called Simon and Ekkehard, who used to develop a lot of Vic 20 games back in the day.

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In recent times, they had tried to recover their long lost work – but were having troubles doing so. Ekkehard finally got hold of a Vic 20 recently and managed to get his and Simon’s works preserved.

For more details and downloads for Simon’s game ‘Dudu’ and all of Ekkehard’s currently preserved works, check out the following links:

http://firepunchd.tumblr.com/post/80874300326/long-lost-first-vic20-84-game-found-an-old

http://blogs.newphoria.de/2014/03/27/some-of-my-vic-20-games/

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C64 Battle Ball preserved and more updates

Thanks to Stoo Cambridge for passing on his last remaining copy for preservation, Battle Ball has been finally recovered and released. This was due to be released on the Power House label, but sadly went under before it could be sold. Grab it from here:

Battle Ball

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In addition to that we have the following updates:

3 new entries added

Play and Learn series, Restrictor, Shadowgate

1 update added

Stratagos

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