Here is a larger overview of recent comments on the Games That Weren’t website, so you can keep up to date with any recent input from others on our various entries.
Frank Gasking on Chopper Attack: That’s a good point Hoagie – thanks for flagging that up. I’ll also add the scan and the alternate name… Jan 14, 17:22- on Chopper Attack: The report in Power Play does not clearly say that the game was shown. It just says that Andy Hollis… Jan 14, 15:16
- on Chopper Attack: Great spot Jim! It could possibly be, though the logo at the very start seems to say something else other… Jan 14, 11:21
- on Chopper Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ZTt0YKpKY It might be the helicopter game in the first minute of this video? Jan 14, 11:08
- on Eskimo Eddie: Hi Fever – I suspect that it was accidently put onto a PD compilation (like what happened to a number… Jan 14, 10:35
- on Eskimo Eddie: Hi Frank What about the comment on GB64 that says “Digital Marketing PD #028” does that mean that it was… Jan 13, 12:30
- on Bible Research Systems titles: No problems…once I get an ISO from your BRS CD, that will fill-in the missing files for gaps listed in… Jan 13, 04:57
- on Bible Research Systems titles: I haven’t forgotten you, just caught up in a lot of personal stuff for a bit. Don’t forget to remind… Jan 12, 12:26
- on Multi-pack: Hi Paul, i’ll ping you an email quickly. We weren’t 100% sure if it existed or not, and hoped it… Jan 11, 16:52
- on Multi-pack: Hi, ive just got a load of c64 tapes and this was in it. Your web site says this doesnt… Jan 11, 14:05
- on An interview with Craig Kelsall: Thanks Hoagie, i’ll make a note to cover Slicks in the future! Jan 10, 09:04
- on An interview with Craig Kelsall: The Amiga version of Slicks was previewed in Joystick 32 (11/1992) page 089. Jan 9, 17:27
- on Sorry!: https://retrocollector.org/index.php?page=1&system=1&media=123456789AYZ&publisher=-1&title=sorry&box=-1®ion=-1&type=0123&release=22216 Jan 9, 17:09
- on Engalus: Thanks for the kind words PLG_4269. Yeah, unfortunately this happens a lot with a lack of source crediting – though… Jan 8, 09:06
- on Engalus: Thanks GTW for the thorough and detailed article/videos as usual. It’s unfortunate you never got the clearance to release the… Jan 7, 19:25
- on Guerrilla War: Thank you Hoagie, that is great work! I’ve just updated the page with credit to yourself. Hopefully Marc will be… Jan 7, 15:45
- on The Black Onyx: Young Mr. Henk in the Login photo!! The second game, The Fire Crystal, was released for PC-8801, but the third… Jan 7, 13:12
- on Guerrilla War: After some research, it seems that Prestasoft was just another name for Satory Software, Marc Djan’s company before he was… Jan 6, 16:01
- on SEGA 1995 product catalogue: Hello, there’s not much info out there on this “SEGA 1995 product catalogue”, that’s for sure! I’m having a tough… Jan 5, 20:51
- on Bible Research Systems titles: The Web site, http://www.Verse-Searcher.com, is up and running….enjoy! ~Alfonso Martinez Jan 2, 01:02
- on The Cross: Great website! I’ve enjoyed exploring all the details about cancelled and unreleased C64 games. The insights into these forgotten titles… Dec 29, 07:12
- on Bible Research Systems titles: I am almost finished setting up my Web site, www.Verse-Searcher.com, that will be an archive of everything Bible Research Systems.… Dec 28, 08:21
- on Long lost Jeff Minter games found!: Thanks Michael. My collection of files was just from the 8-bit portion. Dec 24, 14:26
- on Long lost Jeff Minter games found!: That’s awesome, thank you Michael – i’ll add links to the page. LiqMatrix has also sent an archive over so… Dec 24, 11:34
- on Bible Research Systems titles: Jim, Try uploading to https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/njxh194nwxjcya14bkqpl/AB7tKHu8B8y1INZA0GC6l5E?rlkey=xfn623a5h6kb1ymwoo5f7hysy&st=8o5v09w5&dl=0 Thank you, Dec 24, 02:30
- on Long lost Jeff Minter games found!: Hi Frank, I believe most of those Llamasoft files have working downloads here: 8-bit https://web.archive.org/web/20240224142009/http://www.llamasoftarchive.org/oldsite/llamadloads.htm 16-bit https://web.archive.org/web/20230128075839/http://www.llamasoftarchive.org/oldsite/llamadloads2.html I’m grabbing them… Dec 24, 00:31
- on Thank you!: Thank you, Frank, for yet another incredible year, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours! Amazing… Dec 23, 23:15
- on Thank you!: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – Lots Of Love and Best Wishes and Long Health for ALL the… Dec 23, 20:38
- on IK+ design and development notes: Thanks Avram! So that is what the acetate sheet was from in his archive. That was the trace he did… Dec 23, 10:33
- on Long lost Jeff Minter games found!: Sorry to hear this daurelio23 – unfortunately this is maintained by someone external to us. I checked the WaybackMachine quickly,… Dec 23, 09:54
- on Long lost Jeff Minter games found!: Hallo, download links on this Page is not working. Long lost Jeff Minter games found. BR Dec 23, 09:27
- on Bible Research Systems titles: Jim, I just realize we can cannot use the e-mail system to transport these large files. Please stand by until… Dec 23, 01:01
- on IK+ design and development notes: There’s a great interview with Archer McClean where he explains that he traced the backflip from the musical Grease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRFZS9wzt7s Dec 22, 18:17
- on Wacky Races V1: Ahhh okay! Thanks for clearing that up, always thought Hi-Tec were just a publisher who relied on work-for-hire style studios. Dec 22, 15:39
- on 666 – The Number of the Beast: Thank you very much Retroboy! I’ll update the page quickly with credit to yourself. I was hoping there might be… Dec 22, 11:06
- on Archer Maclean’s Snooker prototypes: Thanks Galahad! Really appreciate this and have just added to the archive. Great to see what was locked away :) Dec 22, 11:06
- on 666 – The Number of the Beast: The game offers more… pressing “P” on the empty/black landscape tiles, picks up spells and gives points. You can turn… Dec 22, 10:49
- on Archer Maclean’s Snooker prototypes: Frank, sent you a message on Facebook with the code to get into the 3 Prototype for the Atari ST.… Dec 22, 00:58
- on Bundesliga 2: Sorry everyone! I always do this from time to time. I create the zip file whilst the game is still… Dec 21, 21:11
- on Wacky Races V1: Merry Christmas Hank! PAL Developments was a part of Hi-Tec, an internal team which sometimes did development work for other… Dec 21, 21:06
- on Super Hang-On V1: Of course I realize later, after my comment above, that Motocross Racer was made for the 2600, C64 & VIC-20… Dec 21, 17:07
- on Wacky Races V1: Merry Christmas Frank! Wonderful find, but also… hold on… The Amiga longplay you’ve embedded has PAL Developments as the copyright… Dec 21, 15:47
- on Bundesliga 2: Hi. First of all my german is pretty good :) but the zip folder is empty… Could not test the… Dec 20, 23:27
- on Bible Research Systems titles: I just also looked at my version–it is version 7.1.39. So you will get a slight upgrade. Alfonso Martinez Dec 20, 20:57
- on Bible Research Systems titles: Howdy, Jim! If you can create an ISO of the last CD you received from BRS and also your zipping… Dec 20, 20:37
- on Super Hang-On V1: Man. Those screenshots so remind me of the 1984 ColecoVision game Motocross Racer. Dec 20, 18:19
- on Team SAS: Thanks Fever for that info. Very interesting. It amazes me what is sitting on Archive.org that gets very little fanfare.… Dec 20, 15:56
- on IK+ design and development notes: It was pretty close overall – some bits a bit out of sequence, but must have just got added to… Dec 20, 13:51
- on IK+ design and development notes: I will say, I was quite surprised how roughly in chronological order all the documentation for this was sitting in… Dec 20, 12:33
- on Bible Research Systems titles: Alfonso, I have the complete final version of Verse Search with the latest updates that I can share with you.… Dec 20, 11:59
- on Prehistorik Kart: You can just open up in something like mGBA emulator and it should work fine. Dec 20, 10:28
- on IK+ design and development notes: I’m honestly blown away by how organized he approached this! When I heard that he videotaped himself doing karate moves,… Dec 19, 12:26
- on IK+ design and development notes: It looks like an amazing archive of a very talented person. Dec 19, 09:37
- on Team SAS: Hi Frank Reading this entry made me go down a rabbit hole finding out what happened to Rage software, I… Dec 18, 13:21
- on The Godfather: Ah, that makes sense as to why they’d suggest such a strange change to the storyline to try and get… Dec 12, 09:32
- on The Godfather: It seems that Delphine Software never worked seriously on this one. Last year, Thierry Perreau (graphic artist) and Raphaël Gesqua… Dec 11, 12:14
- on Bible Research Systems titles: In response to Bryan: Somehow, my first posting did not take–must have goofed it again. Anyhow, I have ‘The WORD… Dec 10, 05:52
- on Bible Research Systems titles: I have ‘The WORD Processor’ v4.0, 4.2, 4.3–then, upgraded to 5.0 and to 5.1. I had TWP 6.3 on CD… Dec 10, 03:42
- on Rockus: Good to hear from you Ingo and thanks for getting in touch. That is amazing to hear that you had… Dec 9, 13:56
- on Rockus: Hello, my name is Ingo Stein and am the creator of the Rockus cartoon. Rockus was printet in eight computer… Dec 8, 16:06
- on Alien VS Predator: Nightmare on Ryushi: Ah thank you Hoagie! I’ll make a note to try and update later today with credit to you and Abandonware… Dec 7, 10:43
- on Global Golf: The Earth Invitational: There are a few more pics in Joystick 35 (2/1993) p52. Dec 5, 21:15
- on Alien VS Predator: Nightmare on Ryushi: Abandonware France speaking ^^ The cancellation was announced in a short “Telex” panel in Joystick 42 (10/1993) p21. Dec 5, 21:14
- on Force Of The Vulcan: Hi Eric, thanks for getting in touch! I’ll ping you a quick message. Dec 5, 11:42
- on Force Of The Vulcan: I might have an old copy on my rooftop, but it is most probably not readable. My name is Eric… Dec 4, 14:18
- on Jonny Quest and the Splinter of Heaven: Thank you Hoagie! I’ve added the scans to each of the Microillusions games and credited yourself and archive.org. This is… Dec 3, 12:19
- on Jonny Quest and the Splinter of Heaven: There was a full article about these four MicroIllusions games in Video Games & Computer Entertainment 10 (11/1989), “From Cartoon… Dec 2, 21:36
- on The Omnicron Conspiracy: That’s amazing, thank you very much for the heads up! I’ll make a note to update the page tomorrow! Dec 2, 09:19
- on Tantalus: It’s a good suggestion, and you could well be onto something. Hopefully in time we’ll learn what happened straight from… Dec 2, 09:19
- on Tantalus: This is just a wild guess, but hear me out: On the 5th screenshot above (titled “tant8”), you can see… Dec 1, 08:39
- on The Omnicron Conspiracy: There is an interview of the author, Jim Nangano, in Video Games & Computer Entertainment 18 (7/1990), detailing the problems… Nov 30, 23:18
- on GTW Highlight No.02: Origins of Dropzone (Atari 800): What a fantastic find. Well done with these. Incidentally, I’ve seen just this week a mention that Dropzone may have… Nov 28, 23:45
- on XLR8: The tunnel portions of this game so remind me of the awesome PC tunnel racer called “Ballistics” from 2001. Ballistics… Nov 27, 12:38
- on Street Fighter 2: I was wrong Codetapper! – It seems like Nick Vincent used Richard’s code from Double Dragon 2 to do ESWAT… Nov 26, 00:35
- on Street Fighter 2: Richard Aplin’s engine could have worked well but just like the Final Fight game, we would have had a lot… Nov 22, 19:05
- on Street Fighter 2: I agree, I doubt it was by Richard either. We made the unlikely suggestion though, as in 1991 it was… Nov 20, 20:50
- on Street Fighter 2: If US Gold had released it at the time, it would have surely been complete shit like all the other… Nov 20, 11:05
- on Sonic the Hedgehog: The ‘Press Button’ font is also the default font used in low-res AMOS software, so it could well have been… Nov 13, 22:37
- on Sonic the Hedgehog: Amiga was not strong enough to reproduce the 16bit version of Sonic. That was what they said back in the… Nov 13, 21:24
- on Star Trek: A World For All Seasons: That is superb, thank you SEM! Just added now with a credit to yourself! Nov 11, 10:40
- on Star Trek: A World For All Seasons: FYI the game was covered in a UK documentary on video games called Equinox: Serious Fun. The segment begins around… Nov 11, 10:33
- on Morgol: That’s a brilliant find, thanks HG! I’ll add now to the page and will update quickly. It does indeed look… Nov 10, 14:56
- on Absolute Beginning: Unfortunately they were unrelated Richard. Asif got in touch to say he had sent both games into Zzap, and it… Nov 10, 14:54
- on Absolute Beginning: I remember seeing one of Asif’s games appear on the Commodore Force cover tape, which I had fun playing. The… Nov 10, 14:01
- on Morgol: Morgol was definitely more than just a working title, because look: https://archive.org/details/SynapseSoftwareArt/page/n15/mode/2up A scan of the box! (Featuring different artwork… Nov 10, 07:26
