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

GTW64 update for 17/02/13

A number of new entries based from research in BigK magazine and also some recent bits and pieces that have come up.

6 new entries added

Cloak Of Death, Klartz and the Dark Forces, Morris Meets The Bikers, Mountain Video Games, Quest of Eternity, Star Force Seven

11 updates added

D-Day, Deadlock, Hareraiser 2, Jetpac, Prince Of Persia, The Great Space Race, The Magic Roundabout, Thunderbirds, Unnamed CRL Game

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The Commodore Force that never was

Prompted by a recent discussion on Lemon 64 that cropped up – I realised that I had a bit of a story to share regarding an actual magazine issue that never was. The elusive Commodore Force issue 17.

In addition to this, a forum thread over at the Zzap 64 forum also gives additional input into this feature which i’ve recently updated this article with.

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Continue reading

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GTW64 update – 08/01/13

Continuing the ongoing updates and fixes:

7 new entries added

Biz, Bloo!, Hell For Leather, Phantom – The Mission Remix, Tanx, Thunder Hawk, Victory Road (UK version)

51 updates added

This is mostly credit fixes, addition of extra scans and creator speaks added. Some highlights in particular to check are for Captain Planet, Hareraiser 2, Paperboy 2, Speedboat Assassin, Unnamed Tony Gibbs Game, Street Fighter 2 V1 (Interesting account from James Macdonald!) and Unnamed Tony Gibbs game.

2400 AD, Airwolf 2 V1, Albyon, Batman Returns, Blast, Breakthrough, CDU Games Disks, Capitaly, Captain Planet, Cattivik, Circus Fun!, City Bomber, Colour Space, Cyborg, DDT: Dynamic Debugger, Dinnamic Donkey Duo, Droid One, Droid One Plus, Enduro Racer V2, Fruit Fight, Gauntlet 3, Giana 2 – Arthur And Martha In Future World, Gods, Hareraiser 2, Ice Age, Kick Off, Kid Niki, Klaboom, Monster Business, Outrage, Paperboy 2, Penguin Tower, Quo Vadis, R.R Software Titles, Saigon Combat Unit, Shockwave, Shutdown, Solo, Sorry!, Speedboat Assassin, Street Fighter 2 V1, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, Tusari 2, Tyger Tyger, Unnamed Game, Unnamed Tony Gibbs game, Viking Child, Warspite, Xenon 2, Zynon

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AMC’89 Konix sources released

Following on from the exciting launch of the Konix Multi-system emulator and a runnable preview of AMC’89, the guys from the Slipstream: The Konix Multi-system archive have now released the sources which can be grabbed from here:

https://github.com/SavourySnaX/AOTMC89

This has been released with the permission of Jeff Minter himself, and it is hoped that someone will pick up the baton and look to try and complete the game, maybe even trying to reconstruct the Stonehenge levels which are missing from the preview.

Fancy a challenge?

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A small pre-2013 update

A few bits and pieces have come through right at the death of 2012 – which includes details of another Amiga to C64 conversion that never was called:

And also David Wightman helped us to confirm some more details on two games he was involved in which we had entries already in the archive, confirming credits and details to why the games never made it:

RatPack led us to a sad discovery that ex-C64 developer Carl Wade passed away in 2011 at the young age of 40. Carl was famous for the C64 conversions of Double Dragon (Ocean), Gemini Wing and Stratego. Rest in piece Carl!

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