A lovely huge preservation update today! Thanks to @malcseventyfour.bsky.social, 15 previously unpreserved Commodore 64 educational titles from Grolier/Mindflight have now been recovered, including the long sought-after The Story of Miss Mouse and Rhyme Land. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/grol...

A video of this unreleased US version: x.com/higenekodo/s...

いろいろや　ひげねこ堂 (@higenekodo) on X

EVOLUTION DARWIN4088　海外版とのお話で難易度高いです。

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Howell Ivy is really someone people in video game history should know more about. Wonderful man I had the pleasure to speak with on one occasion and a pioneer who needs to be known for more than Death Race.

They Create Worlds@theycreateworlds.bsky.social · yesterday

Howell Ivy turned familiar arcade ideas into something fresh, from his early work at Ramtek and Exidy to his later impact at SEGA. #ArcadeHistory #Ramtek #SEGA #Exidy #RetroGaming youtu.be/fHoRfn1uh3o

While Garfield Gets Real made it to the Nintendo DS, a Wii version was also planned but quietly disappeared. Very little is known today, with just a single music track surviving from the cancelled project. More details: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/garf...

These previously unreleased Virtual Boy games are now available to play on Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics for #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack members: ☑️ ZERO RACERS ☑️ D-HOPPER

Happy unreleased Virtual Boy games day.

In 2025, VING's former president put a batch of items up for auction such as the original box art for Blandia 98 as well as the one for a cancelled version of The Elder Scrolls: Arena (for PC-98?), illustrated by Satoru Furuya / 古屋暁: vgdensetsu.net/SatoruFuruya/ en.uesp.net/wiki/File:AR...

Before Ocean Software's Madballs, there was another! A very different pinball game in development for Amstrad CPC at Ariolasoft before the licence slipped away. Thanks to Ian Munro + Nicholas Campbell, you can now check out the prototype in the archives: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/madb...

Two long-lost Atari 5200 prototypes have been recovered from Frank Cohen's source code archives. Mail Boy (early Cohen's Towers) and Topsy Turvee are now preserved thanks to a fantastic community effort. More details: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/two-... Image credit: AtariProtos

FREEZE ZX #4 arrived just in time for a quick break away on Friday, so perfect timing whilst being gratefully abandoned in a tap room for a few hours. Enjoying the interview with Steve Godwin and look forward to finishing the rest! @freeze-zx.bsky.social More info: freeze64.com/freeze-zx-is...

I can also add that at one point this game was advertised on magazines as to feature "the longest kissing scene ever to be put in a video game". Yeah, basically you hit pause and there you go.

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Rimini, Mare Azzurro was one of Simulmondo's earliest announced projects - a 1950s Commodore Amiga graphic adventure that never left the planning stages. Here's the story behind the lost game: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/rimi...

#LogLoads64 Murder! To round off the entirety of the game reviews in the first issue of CF, we have this oddity. Oh wait: no we don't! Enter @gamesthatwerent.com..: www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/murder/ Well, that's all very interesting, isn't it? Any #IndieDev #PixelArt specialist fancy this?

Murder! (C64) - 1990 U.S. Gold - GTW64

Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games

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Rimini, Mare Azzurro was one of Simulmondo's earliest announced projects - a 1950s Commodore Amiga graphic adventure that never left the planning stages. Here's the story behind the lost game: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/rimi...

Rimini, Mare Azzurro (Commodore Amiga) - Games That Weren't

Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games

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Really pleased to finally be able to share this. It's an honour for Games That Weren't to be involved as one of the preservation partners for the new Gremlin Graphics Classics initiative. Looking forward to helping preserve + document a little more of Gremlin's history.

Time Extension@timeextension.com · last wk.

"We Didn't Want To Simply Revisit The Past For Nostalgia's Sake" - Gremlin Graphics Is Being Revived As A Heritage Label. (Repost)

We've added a set of 5 recovered Game Boy Advance prototypes to the archive, with Action Man, Casper, Cube, Kong and Rotating Menus. Unfortunately they are in a strange executable format which don't run properly and may need some further investigation. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/01/vari...

@xyphoe.bsky.social has done a brilliant stream covering lost Amstrad CPC games, including a few that we've recovered recently at Games That Weren't. Xyphoe does some great videos, so check out his channel too!

Xyphoe@xyphoe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Missed last night's "The LOST AMSTRAD GAMES! 🔍 Unreleased? Unfinished? But Discovered Games!!" AMSTREAM? Well you can now catch-up with it as a normal YouTube video here! ▶️ www.youtube.com/live/kcmv0tZ... 18 'lost' Amstrad games shown off and played last night!! Including 1 never seen before! 😃

Our first Commodore 64 update today of 2026 with 3 new entries, including entries on two lost Windham Classic titles and updates on The Blob, the Infiltrator 3 that never was and more: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/01/gtw6...

Today is our July 2026 update for Games That Weren't 64 (Commodore 64) with an advanced preview of Trigger Happy added, Eye of Horus pre-release disk, one new entry into the archive and 17 other updates to existing entries. See you next month! www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/gtw6...

Project Anglerfish Could Have Been The First New Myst Universe Game In 20 Years. (Repost)

Project Anglerfish Could Have Been The First New Myst Universe Game In 20 Years

"We’re still proud of the work the team did"

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Thanks to Filip Balyu, the Atari ST edition of Level 9's unreleased Grange Murders can now be explored, with a download now added. More details can be found below, and the video here is of the ST version in action: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/12/gran...

Rumoured for 33 years, we have recovered an advanced and playable preview of Kevin Keegan's Player Manager for PC (DOS). Including lots of graphical assets, and remains of the lost Amiga version (with hope that too could be saved): www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/01/kevi...

Today we take a quick look at a long lost Atari 400/800 conversion of Flash Gordon by Mastertronic. Seemingly complete by the late Steve Riding, Mastertronic never released the game for reasons not yet known. Can anything of Steve's lost work be found? www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/01/flas...

Flash Gordon (Atari 400/800) - Games That Weren't

Flash Gordon was a great budget title from Mastertronic, and one which I enjoyed a lot on the Commodore 64. One thing that stood out in particular was the amount of different styles of games present, ...

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Kishin Dōji Zenki FX: Vajra Fight proposal dated May 30, 1994. For about a month and a half, the team was working on an action RPG, then their project was shelved and they started working on Zenki. It was originally meant to be a PC Engine CD game using the Arcade card, ... 1/2

De hadde en låt som het «Atari Baby», men dataspillet de laget var selvfølgelig for Commodore 64 via @gamesthatwerent.com Radikalt spill hvor man kan skyte Madonna. Hun har klart seg vesentlig bedre enn dette bandet. Jeg er ikke like stor fan nå i dag.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Games That Weren't - 1986 Significance

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Today we've added S.O.S., a long lost 1993 Hungarian Commodore Plus/4 game where you pilot a rescue boat to save drowning people. Another small but important piece of gaming history preserved thanks to Csaba Virág: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/s-o-s/

Doesn't really do anything beyond this, but I finally got those old XBEs for Pinata Paradise to do something. Behold, a (partial?) menu for the game!

One of Poland's most ambitious unreleased RPGs... Tower of the World promised a huge living fantasy world for PC and Amiga users before cancellation. We've now added the story and a collection of previously unseen development images to the archive. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/towe...

FREEZE issue 86 has arrived thanks to @freeze64.bsky.social ! Can't wait to check out the feature on Chuckie Egg and interview with its developer Sean Townsend. Will be interesting to see what crap games Julian is covering too and more. Thanks buddy! freeze64.com/freeze64-iss...

Today we're adding an early Game Boy Advance proto called F1-X. However, the files need work as they were built for a AGB dev board. We may have found graphical mock ups too, suggesting (if the same game) a Game Boy Color version may exist too: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/01/f1-x...

F1-X (Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color) - Games That Weren't

With out next entry, we may have two completely separate games here - but for now we present a game that was due for release by Titus on at least the Game Boy Advance, which is only known as F1X (whic...

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