Games That Weren't covers cancelled video games and unreleased games across a variety of consoles + home computers. Running since 1999 online + longer offline.
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Another GTW @fgasking Boneless.. which I'm pretty certain won't ever make an appearance on the C64 unless I manage to find the time in the future to re-awaken it. #c64boneless @rwxdesigns
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Nuker was an unreleased #C64 Thalamus game that was fully recovered by #GTW64 in 2015. A intriguing twist on snooker, where you must pot all the balls on a futuristic board to progress.
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Drop Soldier was an ambitious RPG with 3D elements, putting you in the shoes of a 1st rank soldier across various night and day missions. Due for release on #Amiga, #PC and #ST platforms - it was canned after Image Works collapsed in late 1991.
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Judge Death was a #2000AD licence from Piranha that was due for release in 1987 on the #C64. The company sadly collapsed before it could happen, but an odd (unofficial?) release under the name of Horror City was made in 1989 which you can check out.
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Today we add 6 new #VIC20 entries to our archive in the hope that some of the mysteries can be solved and something of them found. With thanks to @f_bartoloni for flagging up.
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Orcus was a very promising SEU for the #C64 back in 1990, with some superb music + sfx by JCH. Cancelled after the team working on the game never got paid. Thankfully some previews have managed to surface, though we hope to see more some day.
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Today we take a look at Breathless, an FPS game for the #Amiga and featuring a number of differences compared to the final released version. Highlighted thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz.
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Myth: History in the Making was meant to have seen a revival on #PlayStation, #PC, #N64 and #Saturn platforms back in 1998 by System 3. Though after some promising preview screens, it was never heard of again. Could anything of it some day be found?
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Inspector Gadget and the Circus of Fear was to be very different compared to the awful final #C64 release. Originally a Metro-Cross style game with wonderful intro, it was scrapped due to an "unfixable" bug at the time.
Check it out for yourself at:
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Mike the Dragon is a cancelled #C64 conversion of a very early Kingsoft #Amiga release - very similar to Chuckie Egg. Sadly never completed due to time constraints, thankfully Protovision kindly provided remains for the GTW archives many years ago.
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Today we take a look at Rage by id Software, which was released on a variety of platforms including #PC, #Xbox360 and #PS3. Grzegorz Antosiewicz dissects & highlights a large number of differences and items cut from the final release.
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Today is our big #GTW64 xmas update for 2021, with a special new release of Gyro Shoc for you to play. Plus a glimpse of Vale of Shadows, 38 new entries and 37 updates added to the archives. Happy holidays all & we hope you enjoy!
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Deathstalker is a cancelled #C64 conversion of a #ZXSpectrum and #AmstradCPC Codemasters title. Abandoned due to a coding glitch + developer inexperience at the time. There is an early prototype available on the GTW site to check out:
gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/de…
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Here is a great #bbcmicro recovery that you may have missed of a very obscure and previously unknown Pole Position clone called Flat Out. Now fully preserved and released on Christmas Day. Check out the full story and download at stardot.org.uk/forums/viewto…
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💬 Quake Advance: How a Lost Game Boy Shooter Prototype Came Alive
The roughness is doing a lot of the emotional work here. Quake Advance is fascinating as a technical experiment, but the slow performance would probably make me quit quickly. I keep judging it like a game, even though it was really a glimpse into a developer’s workbench. Maybe that’s unfair. Would you rather have seen a compromised official Quake port or preserved this way?
#GameBoyAdvance #QuakeAdvance #retrogaming
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Hey @fgasking check out this developer interview by @nerd_cage -- there's some discussion here about cancelled games, including Project Dreams!
Link: youtu.be/4uoNKr3QbrA
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Made in Sheffield
Yet another #NES prototype recovered! Today we’re releasing an earlier 1992 build of Nigel Mansell’s World Championship Racing by Gremlin. Used as a reference for a conversion, this build features title screen, credit, and speed differences:
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The Games That Weren’t
Delves into the mysteries of video games that never saw the light of day.
Out now: bitmapbooks.com/collections/…
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