Games That Weren't
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Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games
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Tricks ‘N’ Treasures
Tricks 'N' Treasures was a colourful third-person action/platform game in development at Hammerhead for Psygnosis around 1999-2000. The name seems to have changed slightly depending on where it appeared, with...
Quake
Quake Advance is an impressive proof-of-concept created by veteran programmer Randy Linden, exploring the possibility of bringing id Software's classic Quake to the humble Game Boy Advance. Randy was certainly...
Celebrating The Arcade 1971-1999 at PLAY Expo
A bit late after catching up with work, but had a fantastic weekend up at PLAY Expo Blackpool after last going back in 2015 (!) when I was then running...
GTW64 September 2026 updates
Not entirely sure where most of 2026 has gone, but here we are – and about to hit October. Only feels like a few months ago I was preparing the...
11 lost/missing C64 titles located
A quick round-up of several Commodore 64 findings for September 2026, thanks to Nicol Walder, who has been digging through various disk collections and comparing their contents against missing titles...
Atari Jaguar/CD combo unit original CAD drawings found
A slightly different kind of Games That Weren't entry today, with some newly surfaced development material relating to Atari's unreleased all-in-one Jaguar and Jaguar CD console. John Hardie very kindly...
Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo (C64) prototype
A short entry for a Commodore 64 early preview/prototype build of Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo, which was being produced by Ash and Dave for Hi-Tec Software back in 1991. ...
MELT
MELT was an ambitious Iron Maiden game developed by London's Virtual Studios during the mid-1990s, with Eddie taking on the role of the game's villain. Announced alongside Iron Maiden's Best...
“City by the Lake”
City by the Lake is a very early Atari 2600 demonstration from Western Technologies, created not as a game, but as a technical showcase to demonstrate what a newly established...
Fish!
Fish! was a graphical text adventure from Magnetic Scrolls, released in 1988 across a wide range of formats including the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amstrad PCW, ZX Spectrum +3,...
Gun Loco
Gun Loco was a rather unusual third-person shooter being developed by Square Enix exclusively for the Xbox 360. Set on a remote prison planet populated by some of the universe's...
Virtual Tank
Virtual Tank was an unreleased 3D action game in development at Boss Game Studios for Nintendo's ill-fated Virtual Boy, and is a title we covered extensively in the first Games...
Vixen V1
Earlier in 2026, we added a very early and completely different version of Vixen for the ZX Spectrum, which was being developed by Keith A Goodyer with graphics by The...
The Settlers
Next into the archives is news of a very interesting conversion of The Settlers which got surprisingly close to completion before being abruptly cancelled. The game was being developed for...
Project Dream
Project Dream, also known as Dream: Land of Giants, was an ambitious RPG in development at Rare during the mid-1990s, initially for the Super Nintendo before development moved across to...
Hired Guns AGA
Hired Guns is regarded by many as one of the finest first-person action RPGs ever released on the Amiga, so it should perhaps come as little surprise that an enhanced...
Upon Westminster Bridge
Upon Westminster Bridge is a mysterious unreleased adventure game that was once in development at Magnetic Scrolls, seemingly as a personal project of company founder Anita Sinclair. Very little is...
Duck Out Prototype (ZX Spectrum)
Next up in the Games That Weren't archives is a special prototype/demo version of Dro Soft's Duck Out for the ZX Spectrum, which was likely sent out to different publishers...
R∞M (Room for PlayStation Portable)
R∞M (Room for PlayStation Portable) was an ambitious online community service developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan for the PSP. Announced at the Tokyo Game Show in September 2009, it...
Lobo
After failed attempts on the Sega Genesis and Nintendo 64, DC’s favourite main man almost got his modern video game debut. Kemco and Ocean teamed up with DC Comics to...