This section of Games That Weren’t is dedicated to cancelled, unreleased and prototype games for the Commodore VIC-20. Our aim is to document and preserve lost VIC-20 titles that were abandoned during development or never officially released.
The archive includes early game builds, rare prototypes and information gathered from developers and historical sources. As with the wider GTW project, our goal is to ensure that unreleased VIC-20 software and its history are not lost over time. This is an area we are continuing to expand, with the long-term aim of becoming the most comprehensive resource for cancelled and unreleased Commodore VIC-20 games.
Browse the list of known titles below, and click through where links are available to learn more about each project. If you are aware of any unreleased VIC-20 games or have material to share, please get in touch via the contact page.
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- 40+ Years Lost: Stairway to the Stars (Commodore VIC-20) Finally Recovered! (Commodore VIC-20)
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- A tribute to Micro-Antics (Commodore, Commodore VIC-20)
- Air-Sea Attack (Commodore VIC-20)
- Alien Garden (Commodore VIC-20)
- Amok (Commodore VIC-20)
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- Chess Wars (Commodore VIC-20)
- Coma (Commodore VIC-20)
- Cubic Critters (Commodore, Commodore VIC-20)
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- GTW Highlight No.08: Micro-Antics VIC-20 preservation work (Commodore VIC-20)
- GTW Highlight No.17: Recovery of Monster Muncher (VIC-20) (Commodore VIC-20)
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- Ice Palace (Commodore VIC-20)
- Imagic’s Moonsweeper (Commodore VIC-20) saved after 42 years! (Commodore VIC-20)
- International Karate (Commodore VIC-20)
- Ixion (Atari 2600 / Atari VCS, Atari 400/800/XL, Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore VIC-20)
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- Long lost Jeff Minter games found! (Commodore VIC-20)
- Lost Vic 20 games (Commodore VIC-20)
- Lost Vic 20 games found (Commodore VIC-20)
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- Mama Mia (Commodore VIC-20)
- Mario Bros (Commodore VIC-20)
- Merlin Enterprises missing games (Apple II, Atari 400/800/XL, Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore VIC-20)
- Missile Command (Commodore VIC-20)
- Missing Cedar Island Software (Atari 400/800/XL, Commodore VIC-20)
- Monster Muncher (Commodore, Commodore VIC-20)
- Moon Patrol clone (Commodore VIC-20)
- Moonsweeper (Commodore VIC-20)
- Muffett (Atari 2600 / Atari VCS, Commodore VIC-20)
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- Panic Button (Commodore VIC-20)
- PlatterMania (Commodore VIC-20)
- Pursuit Of The Pink Panther (Atari 400/800/XL, Commodore, Commodore VIC-20)
- Pussyfootin’ (Commodore VIC-20)
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- Slime (Commodore VIC-20)
- Space Vultures (Commodore, Commodore VIC-20)
- Spectrum Games – missing titles (Commodore VIC-20, ZX Spectrum, ZX81)
- Speed Type (Commodore VIC-20)
- Stargate (Commodore VIC-20)
- Startech – lost hardware + software (Atari 400/800/XL, BBC Micro / Electron, Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore VIC-20, ZX Spectrum)
- Super Productions Software games (Commodore VIC-20)
- Survivor Run (Commodore VIC-20)
- System IIII game catalogue (Commodore VIC-20)
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- Tac-Scan (Atari 400/800/XL, ColecoVision, Commodore VIC-20, Intellivision)
- The Great Giana Sisters (Commodore VIC-20)
- The Magic Mirror series (Games 3-5) (Commodore, Commodore VIC-20)
- Track and Field (Commodore VIC-20)
- Trivia UK (Commodore, Commodore VIC-20)
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- Vanguard (Commodore VIC-20)
- VIC-20 and ZX Spectrum preservations (Commodore VIC-20, ZX Spectrum)
