Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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As part of our Christmas 2024 GTW64 update – our next post isn’t quite unreleased games material, but are a set of yet unpreserved Polish games that were released in 1994 and have been preserved thanks to Marcin ‘Tenchi’ Świętoniewski. … Continue reading
Thanks to Csaba Virag, yet another obscure piece of Commodore 64 software has now been saved with the recovery of Bundesliga 2 . This is a Football management software written by Werner Krahe in 1986. Werner is credited in a … Continue reading
For the past year, we have been preserving Archer Maclean’s legacy, saving his source code and various design notes. You can see some of our examples here of recent work as we start to take a look at prototypes and … Continue reading
2003 Rage Bristol / Dangerous Games Ltd. Platforms: Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation 2 Also known as: Andy McNab – Team SAS As you’ll be aware, the games industry is a turbulent one, where projects (and even companies) can often … Continue reading
It is with thanks to contributor Lance Ewing that we learn about a game called Goofy’s Word Factory, which was being worked on by Sierra Online in collaboration with Disney in 1984. As Lance understands it, the game was being … Continue reading
A very short entry for an unknown Football game that was possibly in development or to be developed by Mike Lyons. Basically, we found a set of sprites on a utilities disk, which Mike isn’t very sure about their origins. … Continue reading
The 2025 Zzap!64 annual has arrived and looks great! The biggest surprise was the six page Games That Weren’t tribute feature by Ian Osborne, who had created the article that inspired it all. Talking about how some of the titles … Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.20: In October, we located the long lost PC technical demo of Engalus. An early game from Crytek that was cancelled. We did a series of hi-res videos and showcased parts never seen before until now: https://gamesthatwerent.com/2024/10/engalus/ That … Continue reading
A short entry now for yet another Elite game that never quite made it, even though it was advertised in magazines at the time for both Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Grand National of course was based on the famous … Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.18: September was busy, and also saw the recovery of AtariSoft’s Stargate on the Commodore 64 at GTW thanks to Ken Van Mersbergen. Check out Tom Griner’s long lost conversion for yourself at: https://gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/stargate/
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