Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 3694
1996 Mirage Software / S-Crew Platform: Commodore Amiga 500 Sadly with the decline of the Amiga in later years, it resulted in many titles being thrown onto the scrapheap. Joy of Killing was yet another casualty from all of this, … Continue reading
A quick entry for now for a very early Antiriad style game, with a very similar protagonist that flies and walks around a simple map at the moment. Not much is known about the demo, though a very early preview … Continue reading
An interesting title into the archives, with what seems to be a missing C64 conversion of Shaun Southern’s classic C16 title Jetbrix. HonouredShadow on the Lemon64 forums got in touch to say that his girlfriend was looking for a game … Continue reading
A short entry for what we believe is a missing conversion of Eskimo Eddie, and highlighted thanks to Vinny Mainolfi at FREEZE64 after doing a feature on the game. Vinny had covered the game Ice Busters, and found that there … Continue reading
Our next entry into the GTW64 archives is a missing title by Computer Magic Ltd./Tomy, where you could use your computer to control robots such as the Omnibot, Omnibot 2000 and Verbot. Recently, the software used to control the robots … Continue reading
1997 Argonaut Platform: PC (the possibly others at a later date) Not long after working on an unreleased Saturn version of Alien Odyssey (a story for another day), Argonaut’s Martin Piper was assigned to another project which was to showcase … Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.19: September finally saw the long lost Hydrogenese on the Commodore 64 recovered by CBA/SCS+TRC. A brilliant early look at what could have been an amazing space shooter! Read more about the title at:https://gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/hydrogenese/
GTW Highlight No.17: In September, we recovered and saved Matthew Smith’s long lost Commodore VIC-20 game Monster Muncher (missing 41 years). It was miraculously spotted in the Retro Computer Museum and was quite a recovery: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2024/09/monster-muncher/ A fixed version was … Continue reading
1998 Simtex / Speedworks / Europress Platforms: PC, Sony PlayStation and Arcade XLR8 was a futuristic bike racing game, where you race through the likes of volcanic deserts and ancient prehistoric looking rainforests. The game was due to be released … Continue reading
1993 U.S. Gold Platform: Amstrad CPC Our next entry into the archives is one which has tormented Amstrad CPC users for many many years. But were they then perhaps saved from the lack of a Street Fighter 2 conversion? Back … Continue reading
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