Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Games That Weren’t (GTW) is a large archive dedicated to documenting and finding lost/unreleased games across many different platforms. Running online since 1999 (longer if you count offline) and recently celebrating our 25th Anniversary in 2024. We are a non-profit … Continue reading
In the early 1990s, World Heroes (a popular Neo Geo fighting game developed by ADK and SNK) was being ported to the PC Engine Super CD-ROM by Working Designs. Known for their quality localisations and close collaborations with Japanese developers, Working Designs were said to have had a good working relationship with SNK, which included this unreleased port. Continue reading
Bug Off is a 2018 title inspired by Galencia, developed after Marcel Lansing saw Jason’s game and felt inspired to create something with a similar impact. Having worked on various titles across different Commodore machines, Marcel set out to develop … Continue reading
A very short entry for something which probably isn’t a proper game and was never intended as such. This is a parody on the 1942 and 1943 games, which the author clearly states they hate. So they created this short … Continue reading
One of the great things with hunting for unreleased games, is that they can turn up under the oddest of circumstances. When Hedning/Genesis Project got in touch to say he had found something surprising in a collection of Dutch disks, this was certainly a case of just that! Continue reading
A short entry for a title that was created by Russ Wetmore, and one of the last games they worked on before moving onto new platforms. Unfortunately the game was never released, but thankfully it was recovered in 2015 via the AtariAge forums and Kay Savetz. Continue reading
A short entry for a title that was flagged up in the brilliant Gremlin In the Works book, where Martin Fowler talked of working on a 2D snooker game endorsed by Stephen Hendry for Zeppelin Software that was being worked on by him and Tony Reeves at Dreamscape Designs. Continue reading
Our next entry into the archives is a title that was being created by Chris Pigas called Sorcerer. An early and simple platformer, featuring a protagonist looking rather like Miner Willy from Manic Miner, where you can roam freely around a single level and fight with enemies. Continue reading
Our next entry within the Games That Weren’t archives is an early PC development for a space shooter known as The Grid, developed by D3 for Phoenix Interactive in 1995. Little is known about the game at this stage apart from what we have gleaned from an early demo and various concept screens. Continue reading
Viking was to be an ambitious adventure game that was to cast you as a Viking warrior (e.g., Erik, Leif, or Thorwald) with the ultimate goal of living a worthy life and earning a place in Valhalla. Rather than following a strict storyline or mission structure, the game would encourage freedom, exploration, and role-playing, allowing you to create your own saga. Continue reading
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