1984-198? Archer Maclean Platforms: Commodore 64 Whilst going through Archer’s work disks, we found a few bits and pieces lurking on the disks, which might be unseen artwork or work that Archer has done. We’ll add to this page over … Continue reading →
1986 Archer Maclean / System 3 Platform: Commodore 64 (Atari to come) In late 2023, Games That Weren’t was tasked with trying to preserve all of the late Archer Maclean’s work disks – including Atari and C64 formatted disks. At … Continue reading →
Our next entry is for a title that seems to have been cracked long ago, but not within many of the online repositories (if at all). Jaceman seems to feature the main character from the game Alien that was released … Continue reading →
A Hungarian title which has been found by Csaba Virag, and which is a simple strategy game written by Christian Szegedy (cSSc). Christian also coded the game Ural that was released in 1990 but didn’t do much else apart from … Continue reading →
A Hungarian title which has been found by Csaba Virag, and which is a very simple game based on Tic Tac Toe and which was part of a MicroCAD’90 programming competition held by the University of Miskolc, Hungary. The game … Continue reading →
A Hungarian title which has been found by Csaba Virag, and which is a very simple game based on the game Mill and which was part of a MicroCAD’90 programming competition held by the University of Miskolc, Hungary. The game … Continue reading →
2023 Silvan Reinhold / Psytronik Software Platform: Commodore 64 If you haven’t seen Polar Bear in Space already, then you are missing out on a wonderful shooter/platformer which has elements of Wizball, Retrograde and even Dropzone with the explosion of … Continue reading →
Our second Games That Weren’t Christmas update day is for Atari 8-bit fans, with a hugely important discovery and set of findings from the disks of the late Archer Maclean, which GTW has been meticulously preserving thanks to Chris Wilkins … Continue reading →
1983 Archer Maclean Platform: Atari 400/800 If you haven’t already, before reading this page – we recommend checking out our page on Defender first. This is the title that would evolve from that development, in which was Archer’s second attempt … Continue reading →
1993 Codemasters Platform: Commodore Amiga A bit of a surprise now for Amiga fans as part of our 3-day Christmas 2023 update on Games That Weren’t – starting off with a Codemasters title which hasn’t been known about until today, … Continue reading →
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