Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Right under our noses all along! The long “lost” Commodore 64 Codemasters game Magnum Force has finally been fully preserved today thanks to Nostalgia, after being hidden on the Codemasters CD compilation and undetected for over 30 years. Check it … Continue reading
Yet another long lost Codemasters game, but one which is in fact been under our noses all along! Magnum Force was yet another title from the great Gavin Raeburn and is a sort of sooped up Scramble clone with end … Continue reading
Our second update of the year has more Commodore 64 goodness in the form of 7 new entries and 11 pre-existing entries updated (check ‘history’ tab for details of changes). See you next month! 7 new entries added Dino Time, Hårsfjärden, Mickey’s … Continue reading
Our next entry into the archives is one that I’m sure used to be here, but we removed for some reason. This was intended originally as a game for Ocean, but was never published and instead was picked up by … Continue reading
Just had the most fantastic weekend at Retro Collective with my wife, Tasha, giving a talk on Games That Weren’t and the digital preservation of unreleased games over the past 25 years or so. A huge thank you to Neil … Continue reading
1993 Scangames (Scandinavian Games) Platform: Commodore Amiga Also known as: Seven gates of hell After a less than perfect experience with the development/release of Fuzzball on the Amiga, artist Tomas Dahlgren returned to Sweden, determined to create the perfect arcade … Continue reading
Thanks to Adam Markey for highlighting a conversions call from Codemasters in April 1987, we’ve created a set of new entries for ZX Spectrum, Atari 800, MSX and Commodore 16/Plus 4: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/02/armourdillo/ https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/02/ghost-hunters/ https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/02/grand-prix-simulator/ https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/02/pro-snooker-simulator/
1987 Codemasters Platform: Commodore 16/Plus 4 A very short entry for a Commodore 16/Plus 4 conversion of Pro Snooker Simulator that is currently missing. The question is, was it ever started? The game was released on the Commodore 64. Popular … Continue reading
1987 Codemasters Platform: Commodore 16/Plus 4 A very short entry for a Commodore 16/Plus 4 conversion of Grand Prix Simulator that is currently missing. The question is, was it ever started? The game was released on the Commodore 64. Popular … Continue reading
1987 Codemasters Platform: ZX Spectrum A very short entry for a ZX Spectrum conversion of Armourdillo that is currently missing. The question is, was it ever started? The game was released on the Commodore 64. Popular Computing Weekly, and probably … Continue reading
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