Welcome to Games That Weren't 64!

We cover Cancelled & Unreleased Video games for the Commodore 64 computer. A non-profit large archive dedicated to preserving lost games that were never released to the public, as well as prototypes and the odd preservation of released titles. Our aim to share history and stories from the developers, assets and more before it is too late. GTW has been preserving lost video game history since 1999, and long before that offline.

Please Browse our archive and discover the many entries that we host and have saved over the years.

Latest News and Posts

GTW hosting costs and donations

Games That Weren’t is a freely ran project, 100% non-profitable and done in our own free time. To ensure minimum downtime, storing vast amounts of scans, downloads and information we unfortunately have to pay for hosting.

If you would like to help us to keep GTW and GTW64 running, then you are welcome to make a donation of any size by using the donation button on the side of every page (at the bottom, and out of the way), or via our Donation page.

Please note that donations only cover our hosting/domain costs, and that we remain a purely non-profit project. Each year we will try and raise £95 which covers our costs. Once we hit our target, no more donations will be accepted. More details can be found on our Donation page.

Thank you!

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Ball game preview recovered

Thanks to Joachim Wijnhoven, a long lost game called Ball by Dream Systems from 1989 has been recovered. This is a preview which comes with two separate files showing two different levels and some great presentation.

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Still early days with no sound, but now to find out what happened. Check out the preview for now…

Ball preview

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More GTW64 for June

And so the updates continue. A lot of new entries, but also a number of updates with additional scans and bits from CCI, CU and ACE magazine:

8 new entries added

Chainsaw Warrior, Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness, Jungle Book, Peter Pan, Terrific Land, The War of the Dragon, Unnamed Pacman clone, Vigilante V1

9 updates added

Bamboo, Bobby Yazz Show, Halo Jones, Heavy Barrel, Kid Niki, Lock On, Paddle Mania, The Terminator, Universal Military Simulator

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Contact form issues

It seems that there have been issues for some time with our contact form on the GTW site, with emails not getting sent for at least a few months. This is likely due to security updates on the hosting we are on, which we were unaware of. Things are now working again thankfully!

If you have sent any information to us via the contact form, and have not had a response – this is why i’m afraid. Our apologies to those who have therefore not had a response, and we ask if you could contact us again if you did have any information to submit!

Many thanks!

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GTW64 update 05/05/13

And another update in quick succession … this time a slightly larger update with a number of new entries and updates (with new scans).

7 new entries added

Basket Master V1, Mutant Zone, Reach For The Moon, T-Runner, Thundercats 3, Trick Ramp Crazy, Xecutor

11 updates added

Academy, Dreadnought, Lords Of The Rising Sun, Manhatten Dealers, Nimitz, Phantom Club, Rastan V1, Rebelstar, Scooby Doo V1, Thundercats 2, Time Scanner V1

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