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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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:
gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/in…
New GTW entry: Springclean, an unreleased 1989 title for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.
Both versions were completed and mastered before being shelved, and developer Rich Stevenson reveals that the original source and master disks still survive today.
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Yup, that was a tune just taken from the unused loading music from Mean Streak (which I think Matt had released on Compunet). He wasn't asked to contribute, and I think the tune was just temporarily ripped and added as part of the proto.
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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:
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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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New GTW release: Pro Tennis, a very early Amstrad CPC prototype by David Bradley at Clockwize. There's not much to play, but offers a glimpse of the game taking shape before development stopped. Thanks to Dean Hickingbottom for preserving the prototype.
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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:
gamesthatwerent.com/2025/06/…
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The Games That Weren’t
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スーパーファミコン「F1 ナイジェル・マンセル F1チャレンジ」はPCE以外当時の主要コンシューマ全機種で移植されている。NES版(海外ファミコン)は数少ない主観視点でプレイできる。メガドラ版は後方視点。
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:
gamesthatwerent.com/2025/06/…
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Resident Evil - Featured in our book - The Games That Weren’t
Discover more than 80 unreleased gems from the annals of gaming.
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