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Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games
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Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes 3
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 3 was in development at 5000 Feet and Climax for the PlayStation 2, but was ultimately never released. Very little has surfaced from the project over...
New Mountain King Atari 8-bit Prototype Recovered
Another nice preservation update to highlight today, this time thanks to the Atari community. John Hardie has recovered a previously unseen prototype of Mountain King for the Atari 8-bit computers...
Super Mario’s Wacky Worlds
It still feels strange to imagine a traditional Super Mario platform game appearing on anything other than Nintendo hardware, but thanks to Nintendo's short-lived agreement with Philips, that almost became...
Unnamed Shoot-Em-Up
Next up into the Games That Weren't archives is a very early single screen shoot-em-up, which was being developed by David Bradley. The game has no name at this stage,...
Trigger Happy (Commodore 64): Advanced Preview Discovered
A more advanced preview of the unreleased Commodore 64 shoot-em-up Trigger Happy has surfaced! Featuring improved graphics and much more developed attack waves than the previously known build, it's a...
Ninjanimal
Ninjanimal was one of the more curious titles listed in Titus' 1990 release schedules. Planned for the Commodore 64 on tape and disk, the game never surfaced on any platform...
Two Long Lost Commodore PET Adventures Recovered After 45 Years
The original Commodore PET editions of Brian Cotton's Catacombs and Goblin Towers, published by Supersoft back in 1981, have been recovered after being considered lost for around 45 years thanks...
Masters of the Universe – The Super Adventure & The Arcade Game
Masters of the Universe - The Super Adventure and The Arcade Game were two games based on the Filmation cartoon Masters of the Universe, released by US Gold in 1987....
Raiden (Amiga/Falcon) and Space Junk (Atari Falcon) Source Code
A very exciting development has come from our recent Raiden post, with source code recovered for two long lost Imagitec projects - the unreleased Amiga/Atari Falcon versions of Raiden and...
R.A.I.L
To coincide with the launch of Richard Hewison's excellent new Kickstarter project, "Memories of Rainbird and Beyond Software", we are taking the opportunity to preserve and share a fascinating piece...
Raiden
Few arcade shoot-em-ups made as much of an impact in the early 1990s as Seibu Kaihatsu's Raiden. First released into arcades in 1990, the vertically scrolling shooter quickly became a...
Lost C64 games and protos – June 2026 (GTW64)
A huge digest update to the Commodore 64 archive this month with some major recoveries for you that you may have missed. 1) Arcade Wizzard (U.S. Gold) found at last!...
Expert Software (C64) preserved
Our friend Allan Pinkerton, who has preserved many released C64 titles over the years and helped us (see ALA Software titles), has preserved a batch of Expert Software titles for...
The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges was a minigame collection that was developed by Incredible Technologies and published by Cinemaware starring the titular Stooges, Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard, with the...
The Acrobat
The Acrobat is an intriguing unreleased adventure game, developed by Simon Price and Mike Lewis as a 16-bit evolution of the comics-based adventure system previously used for the likes of...
Leisure LINCware
Leisure LINC went online as a Tymnet/Telenet-hosted service in September 1986, offering game matchmaking, news, member chat and mail. It was especially known for its chess focus, including an official...
Three Big Commodore 64 recoveries
A lovely surprise for the weekend for you all! Today we are very pleased to add not one, but three significant Commodore 64 recoveries to the archives thanks to former...
EPT
Something very special for you today at Games That Weren't, with further long lost prototypes of Rainbird's EPT added to the archives (a single prototype has been out there for...
Gravitor Game (Atari) Preserved
Bertrand / AtariMania has once again highlighted an interesting preservation release, this time with the recovery of Gravitor, a 1984 Atari 8-bit shoot'em up developed by Alan Kramer and published...
Gravitor Prototype (Atari) Preserved
Bertrand / AtariMania has once again highlighted an interesting preservation release, this time with the recovery of Gravitor, a 1984 Atari 8-bit shoot'em up developed by Alan Kramer and published...