Miles Jacobson has World Cup winners on WhatsApp, dozens of football clubs who pay for his scouting network and 20 million players who all swear by Football Manager. Until last year, when the series' latest entry never released… www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/foot...

Es gracioso porque creo recordar que en su momento me llegaron rumores de una conversión a consola de Titus the Fox, puede que incluso se mencionara algo en revistas de la época. The Blues Brothers, juego hermano de TTF, sí acabó apareciendo en SNES, NES y GB, pero del zorro no supimos nada más.

Mobocracy was a gritty #AppleMac side-scroller set in a post-apocalyptic world. Ambitious but unfinished, only fragments remain - enough to imagine how it could have been. More details at: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/mobo...

Scavenger was created by author of Nebulus, John Phillips, showcasing an phenomenal shadow effect unlike anything seen before on the #AtariST and #Amiga. The collapse of Hewson saw John move to The Bitmap Bros, resulting in its cancellation. gamesthatwerent.com/2021/02/scav...

Today we're releasing a cancelled #SNES development of Titus the Fox. At very early stages, with an animating fox sprite and a test map that you can move around. There's also a split screen mode. Likely a new Titus game, rather than a conversion. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/titu...

Further prototypes have been found and added to our new page on ATV, including one with a different title screen.

GP Advance was a 3D GBA racing game in development at Italian studio Prograph in 2003. Marketed as having "Psx-level graphics", using an in-house engine, the game featured up to 45k polygons on screen, running smoothly. In the end, no publisher could be found and the game was cancelled.

Cartoon Network's rare 1995 PC game Toon Jam! has finally been preserved in full mixed-mode form, including its Red Book audio. The complete image appeared on Archive.org just last month, making this the most complete version ever archived. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/11/cart...

Today we're releasing a V1.0 demo of ATV Racing for the #Nintendo #GameBoyColor, that was eventually released by Datel in 2001. This prototype comes with 3 early tracks, no sound and CPU opponents - plus likely a lot of other differences to discover: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/atv-...

An unknown Car Game prototype has been uncovered and released today for the #Nintendo #GameBoy. It features a very simple track and a car that you can drive round (but no CPU cars). Hope to learn more about it soon: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/unkn...

5/5 - Finally on Friday we finished with a new entry for the #AtariST. Mechanic Warriors - a blended shooter + strategy, with multiple space vehicles and missions. Canned due to funding, it became UbiSoft’s simpler Intruder game: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/mech...

4/5 - Then on Thursday was more #GameBoy early builds, with the release of Populous prototypes, featuring mostly very minor title differences, plus various bugs not yet fixed: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/popu...

3/5 - On Wednesday we released several very special #SNES prototypes of Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday (from 1993–1994), with 6 unseen subgames, early sprites + lots of content cut from final release. Findings still being discovered and page being updated: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/pork...

2/5 - Then we released prototype builds of Sensible Soccer for the #GameBoy original - including differences in menus and game options, plus various bugs not yet fixed: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/sens...

1/5 - First up we had the release of Kick Off 3: European Challenge for #GameBoy original. Built on the Super Kick Off engine with a new 2.5D viewpoint. Scrapped early - though playable proof of concepts and a new menu system were started: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/kick...

We've uncovered the start of a previously unknown 1991 #NES Super Kick Off conversion. Built on the original Kick Off code, it features updated titles and the beginnings of an overhaul that was never finished. Check out the prototype for yourself here! www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/11/supe...

Moldy disks - my pet hate! Especially when you have important disks to try and archive. This Aculab DASH-80 system disk is probably the only one in existence. I have managed to recover most of it after a lot of cleaning. A bit more work and I can hopefully fully recover.

A few of the many user interface changes that Descent went through. From February 94, to April 94, to June 94. From the Volition collection at The Strong.

Sonic GX - HOT NEWS as Sonic the Hedgehog has arrived on the Amstrad GX4000 and Amstrad Plus! (New Video!) www.indieretronews.com/2024/07/soni... #retrogaming #gaming #sega #SonicTheHedgehog

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

It's our tenth Games That Weren't #Commodore64 digest of 2025 with addition of Rocky Memphis and the Temple of Ophuxoff, and 5 other existing entry updates (more details in each history tab). A smaller one this month, but some big findings coming soon! www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/gtw6...

"Why yes, I'd be glad to take a look at 62 mystery EPROMs from a major 8- and 16-bit publisher!" [monkey paw curls]

Thank you everyone for the kind thoughts and wishes. Sadly mum passed away on Sunday morning, so everyone quite numb at the moment. Missing her phone calls talking about the birds on her bird feeder :(

The "JPDEMO" from July 1994 was even more basic, unsurprisingly.

Even as of the Alpha 2 build of Descent in October 1994, the game's menu still didn't quite resemble its final form. From The Strong.

A Prototype For Destruction Derby 2 On Saturn Just Got Released. (Repost)

Sorry for the lack of updates - my mum is sadly severely ill right now, so I’ve paused everything to spend as much time with her as I can that she has left. Please, take every chance to hug your loved ones and tell them you love them.

A few weeks ago, we did an interview for spillhistorie.no regarding our preservation work at Games That Weren't which you can find more details of below. Thanks very much to @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social for the interview.

A Japanese-Exclusive Resident Evil Mobile Spin-Off Once Considered "Lost To Time" Has Been Preserved. (Repost)

Andy Wilson ( RIP ) was an animator at Software Creations and this video shows him working on the Taz character for an unreleased SNES videogame ( late 1993 ) . Please don't confuse Andy with other animators with the same name.

We were working on a SNES 'Taz' game at Software Creations in about 1993/4 and all that remains of the game are these three Taz sprite frames. That may change if I uncover any other artwork. I believe these were drawn/animated by Andy Wilson ( RIP ). Andy is at the front in the photo.

Back in 1991, Enigma Variations released Famous Five: Five on a Treasure Island for many platforms. On #AmstradCPC, magazines once showed a very different looking version of the game. Did this version ever exist, or were screens merely mock ups? www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/famo...

Thanks to John Hardie contacting us, remains of a lost Earthquake game (with graphics by the late Jerome Domurat) were recovered in June 2025 for either #Atari2600 or #Atari8bit. We take a look to try and learn more about the game: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/eart...

Thanks to Csaba Virág, we've been given a rare bug report video from 1990 and for Novotrade's #PC Bugs Bunny's Cartoon Workshop package. This has been preserved by Péter Gyöngyössy, who found and digitized the tape. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cg2...

Planned for 1988 on the #AtariST by Lankhor, Mechanic Warriors blended shooter + strategy, with multiple space vehicles and missions. Canned due to funding, it became UbiSoft’s simpler Intruder game. Can the original be found? www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/mech...

More previously unseen content revealed from the Porky Pig #SNES prototype recovery thanks to @kungfufurby.bsky.social . By patching the subgame proto, you can now see more that was dropped from the final release, including a diving game which looks like a riff on Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun!

More Game Boy early builds, where today we're releasing prototypes of Populous for the #Nintendo #GameBoy for you to check out - mostly very minor title differences, plus various bugs not yet fixed. Can you find anything else?

Just to separately highlight some of the PORKATHLON #SNES subgames in the Porky Pig prototype that were dropped and were pretty decent too. A shame these never made the final cut, as clearly a lot of effort went into them:

Something very special today with the release of Jeff Minter's 'Fastlife' for the ZX81 - based on Conway's 'Life', preserved for the first time by Steve Brown of the TZXVault and released by Games That Weren't today! More details and download here: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/earl...

Thanks to LiqMatrix’s incredible preservation work (with support from @museumofplay.bsky.social and wcnews.com), the KATT Games Master Keyboard (obscure 90s gaming device) is archived. We've uploaded raw scans and files, + an unboxing video by LiqMatrix here: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/the-...

This week at Games That Weren't, we recovered a lost EA proto called Path of the Little Dragon (#Amiga) + added a lost preview of Blues Brothers 2 (Amiga), added entry for Conspiracy of the Deadlock Files (#PCDOS) and a lost Amiga conversion of EA's NHL Hockey. Links in replies.

--=#> NEW ISSUE <#=-- FREEZE64 issue 79 now available to buy from: freeze64.com/freeze64-iss... Features 2 developer interviews: - SID Maestro Allister Brimble - Graphics Artist Terry Lloyd - Part 2 + a whole host of new and exclusive #Commodore64 #C64 content to devour.

You Can Finally Play This "Lost" Mobile Entry In The Ratchet & Clank Series, 19 Years After It Was Cancelled. (Repost)

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This is a fascinating article on early software preservation. Stories of games running on old mainframes always amaze me - the nascent computer scene is very interesting to study and full of hypothetical possibilities.

Fellow preservationist Robert Robichaud got in touch to share that he was recently involved in a game preservation project regarding Norway's first adventure games. A great article worth checking out: spillhistorie.no/2025/09/11/n...

Thanks again to Frank @gamesthatwerent.com for another game recovered from my archive. I am all the more grateful, as at the time it was a technically & visually ambitious project seen by very few!🙏🎮💾 Read more here: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/path... #amiga #commodore #16bit #retro #games

This article rings true to me, having recovered data from 3” and 3.5” floppies, my first-pass success rate at the moment is about 70%. I’ve recently recovered data for a friend off a 40MB hard drive including an unfinished book.

Prompt as always! FREEZE #79 arrives thanks to @freeze64.bsky.social with a great feature on Prince Clumsy, plus more from Terry Lloyd. More Hidden Harmonies from Warren Pilkington, Ccrapback from Julian Rignall and more. Details + ordering info can be found at: freeze64.com/freeze64-iss...

Lovely article on University of Cambridge's Future Nostalgia project - rescuing knowledge from old floppy disks! Much of it resonates with the preservation work we do at GTW: www.bbc.com/future/artic... via BBC_Future