Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games for the Commodore 64 Since 1999
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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.
Michael Ware has very kindly recovered all the sources and demos for a early production of Biff that was cancelled. Interestingly it was also developed in 1989 for Zeit Productions – suggesting that Biff was originally meant to be for another company and not Beyond Belief!
Check it out at:
Another GTW64 update for April which includes:
China Miner V1, Honest Joe, Mutant Fortress, Ninja Eggs
Crystal Castles V1, Flubble And Squij, Lost Caves, Nigel Mansell F1 Racing, Player Manager
Some years ago I was talking on the Lemon 64 of a strange recollection of a rather different looking version of the C64 Wonderboy. I had the budget edition of the game, which I played to death – but also later picked up the game on a Beau Jolly 30 pack of games. The recollection was of a rather expanded looking main sprite (where as the version I originally played had two sprites bolted together).
Mostly thanks to some excellent contributions from Kurt Woloch, here are some updates for a number of Atarisoft games that never were below.
This includes some previously unseen C64 screens for Joust and half of one for Stargate…
After one update, Jason Kelk has very kindly dug out and helped recover 3 previously unseen previews in the shape of Ball Game, Speed Trap and Xykik.
Three very promising early previews. Here goes with the summary of tonight’s updates:
Continuing to get through the occasional update. Here is some more to keep you all going!
Kult: The Temple of Flying Saucers, Rescue Mission, Speed Trap, Toi Acid Game, Vicious Circle
10th Dan, Opera House and The Pay Off, Purple Saturn Day, T-Wrecks, Turbo Cup Challenge
NOTE: This has been brought into the GTW64 archive as a V1 entry at:
A quick addition showing a rather different looking Knuckle Buster game on the C64 by Mat Sneap. Luckily in this case the preview has been around for some time. The thing is that some people have specified that they prefer the preview to the final game. Do you agree?
Here is a comparison between the early version title screen and final version:
And now the game itself:
If you want to check out both versions yourself, then grab them from here:
The first update for March this year. Hopefully some findings coming up very soon, with some exciting developments bubbling up. Check these out for now…
Battle Truck, Eagle Storm, Squad One
Cloak Of Death, Opera House and The Pay Off, Otherworld, QA!, Quest of Eternity, Rebel Star 2, Recon, Sphere, Unnamed trailblazer clone, Victory!, Vietnam Gunboat
Andrew Morris has been allowing us to preserve some of his disks to show incomplete/unused materials to the world, and recently we have discovered the assets to the likes of Kikstart 2 and Cosmic Causeway and various others.
This is a recent update to the post I did previously on just Kikstart 2 and Cosmic Causeway assets to expand and include more recent findings. Some will have been commercially used, but there are a few bits and pieces to check out.
A number of new entries based from research in BigK magazine and also some recent bits and pieces that have come up.
Cloak Of Death, Klartz and the Dark Forces, Morris Meets The Bikers, Mountain Video Games, Quest of Eternity, Star Force Seven
D-Day, Deadlock, Hareraiser 2, Jetpac, Prince Of Persia, The Great Space Race, The Magic Roundabout, Thunderbirds, Unnamed CRL Game
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