Xmas2025 tagged entries (G)

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GTW Highlight No.23: Carts of Fury Flash racer preserved

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GTW Highlight No.23: In June we preserved Carts of Fury, a missing Flash-based advergame recovered with the help of an anonymous contributor. A shopping-cart racer set in supermarket aisles — now finally archived after being inaccessible for years.

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GTW Highlight No.24: Holy Grail recovery: Nigel Mansell World Championship (Commodore 64)

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GTW Highlight No.24: Kicking off July, we were stunned to recovered one of our holy grails missing for 33 years! We were proud to present Gremlin’s Nigel Mansell World Championship on the Commodore 64. A very advanced preview too that you can now play!

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GTW Highlight No.25: Micro Machines 1 & 2 Game Boy Color prototypes recovered

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GTW Highlight No.25: In July, we recovered a fascinating mix of early & late builds of Micro Machines 1 & 2: Twin Turbo for Game Boy Color – with slightly different colour schemes, music demos, dev assets and more. Dive in and enjoy!

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GTW Highlight No.26: Special Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday SNES prototypes recovered

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GTW Highlight No.26: July saw our amazing recovery of several SNES prototype builds of Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday (from 1993–1994), including 6 unseen subgames (PORKATHLON!), early sprites, and stacks and stacks of content cut from the final release.

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GTW Highlight No.31: Unknown Game Boy Colour prototype ‘Some Metal Head’ recovered

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GTW Highlight No.31: In August, we added an unknown GameBoy Color prototype called “Some Metal Head” (working title), created during the early days of DC Studios. Seems to be start of a sort of Metal Slug/Turrican style game that sadly didn’t get far:

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GTW Highlight No.32: Cancelled version of Dave Mirra’s Freestyle BMX added (Game Boy Color)

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GTW Highlight No.32: In August we added a completely different development of Dave Mirra’s Freestyle BMX for #GameBoyColor from DC Studios. Sadly didn’t get far, before Acclaim gave the gig to another dev team. A very early prototype + GDD to check out:

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GTW Highlight No.33: F19 Stealth Air Game Boy Color prototype recovered

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GTW Highlight No.33: In August, we recovered a #GameBoyColor title called F19 Stealth Air (working title). A vertically scrolling shooter prototype with 1 level to play. Not yet sure of its origins, or the intentions for it and hope to learn more soon.

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GTW Highlight No.34: Fulltime Soccer early builds recovered (Game Boy Color)

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GTW Highlight No.34: In August, we added a set of early prototypes for Fulltime Soccer on the #GameBoyColor, which was eventually released by Datel Electronics. Interestingly, it seemed the game was built over the top of the #Gameboy version of Super Kick Off.

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GTW Highlight No.36: Surprise recovery of Indiana Jones 3 adventure (Commodore 64)

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GTW Highlight No.36: September saw a huge #Commodore64 surprise with GTW adding the sadly cancelled playable prototype of the Indiana Jones 3 adventure. An unofficial conversion of the great Lucasfilm Games title with bags of promise, but wasn’t to be.

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GTW Highlight No.37: Lost for 42 years: Moonsweeper recovered (VIC-20)

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GTW Highlight No.37: In September, and after 42 years, Imagic’s Moonsweeper for #VIC20 was finally preserved. Painstakingly restored by Ken Van Mersbergen (+ help from Simon Rowe & Torsten Kracke), Ken kindly allowed release via Games That Werent:

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GTW Highlight No.39: Path of the Little Dragon PC Engine style prototype for Amiga recovered

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GTW Highlight No.39: In October, we had been busy working on recovering a lost 1989 EA game – not for PC Engine, but for the Amiga. Path of the Little Dragon is an early proto beat-’em-up done PC Engine style, and we shared several builds here:

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