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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Markus Siebold has died #C64 #General #MarkusSiebold #Turrican
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We truly missed out on a great Dreamcast game: Agartha!!!! Technical innovation, a unique good-and-evil system, Hollow Earth theory, and a mandatory VMU mini-game. Everything is covered in the most comprehensive article about this game👇 sega-dreamcast-info.com/en/a…
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午前中に『ギャラクシアン3』にMAMEが対応しはじめた話について投稿したところ、フォロワーさんの何人かが「ギャラクシアン3用のレーザーディスクのリッピングについて」……という話をされていたので、本件に関するホームページをご紹介。 なんでも『ギャラクシアン3』は、まず基板上のEPROMを吸い出してROMデータを保存。 そして肝心のレーザーディスクも「Pioneer HLD-X0」(片面再生専用の高性能LDプレイヤー)+「Domesday Duplicator」を使用し、LDから読み出した生のアナログRF信号を直接デジタル化。なんでも複数回キャプチャを重ね、ディスクの傷などによるドロップアウトも補完したとの事。 更に『ギャラクシアン3 Project Dragoon』の未ダンプだった1993年版ROMも保存に成功。2025年3月の再訪時には、欠落していたEPROMも発見・吸い出しに成功し、約30年以上前の貴重な『ギャラクシアン3』のデータが本格的に保存されたそうな。 詳しくはリンク先を読まれてください、ハイ。 philwip.com/2025/04/14/galax…
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ニンテンドー64向けに開発されていた、未発売の囲碁ゲーム『雷の如く ~超高速囲碁~』が、約30年の時を経て大発掘されて海外で騒ぎに!! 本作はセタが1997年頃に開発していた囲碁ゲームで、今回発見されたのは「ほぼ完成版」と思われるプロトタイプ。 こちらはCPUとの対局、トーナメント、チュートリアルなどが収録されており、ゲーム全体が日本語で動作することも確認されているぞッッ!! ※吸い出された本ROMのダウンロード先などについては、一切お答えできません
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"One Of The Finest Coders I'd Worked With" - Tributes Pour In For Star Citizen, Wetrix & Project Gotham Racing Dev, David Bone Gill timeextension.com/news/2026/…
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"A Piece Of N64 History, No Longer Lost" - Unreleased Title 'Kaminari no Gotoku: Choukousoku Igo' Found & Preserved timeextension.com/news/2026/…
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📗 THE GAMES THAT WEREN'T by @bitmap_books & @fgasking: buff.ly/ewznJ4M The Games That Weren't aims to lift the lid on these stories and give these unknown titles a chance to shine – even if we weren't able to actually play them as their developers intended
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Found this in my archives. It's the source of the "dino.exe" name that #GTA1 inherited (via it's DINO.BAT). It was listed as "Darrens Dino Game". Unless this was Attack! I have no idea what this game concept was. This would have been the demo that I drew the Isometric picture for, and the code framework would then be used for the first #GTA Prototype @gtacommunitysol $GTA
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MELT, a lost 1997 PC game featuring Iron Maiden's Eddie, has been recovered! We're releasing a build for the first time, along with source code and an updated version for modern PCs. We also speak to developer Paul Tebbutt. Thanks to Tamaracade for their earlier research.
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City by the Lake, a 1981 #Atari2600 technical showcase by Western Technologies. Eventually the company developed many games for the console piped.video/RzKJL5QmwRs #atari @fgasking
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At long last, Martin Walker lifts the lid on the real reason Back to the Future on the #Commodore64 didn’t turn out quite the way any of us hoped. No rumours, no guesswork — just the full, unfiltered story straight from the man himself. Coming soon to FREEZE64.com #C64
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On this day 20 years ago, the earliest build of Halo 3 we currently have was created. It featured a look at WIP cinematics, below of which is one of them. piped.video/watch?v=ct9TcGMp…
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A really cool find from Discord member gageiro: A custom Mega CD BIOS made especially for Sonic Team's creative director Kazuyuki Hoshino! Check it out in action below! Download: hiddenpalace.org/SEGA_Mega-C… @KazuyukiHoshino 星野さん、ご自身専用メガCD BIOS、覚えていますか?
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🚨Unreleased Family Guy game for the Xbox 360 has been found
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With extensive docs from the VGHF's Mark Flitman archives, The Bounty Hunter was a game Atari was concepting with Todd McFarlane (Spawn) in 2004: archive.gamehistory.org/item… (Possible studios to dev it? Irrational, Free Radical, Arkane & Planet Moon!)
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A fascinating piece of early Atari 2600 dev history! "City by the Lake" was a 1981 technical demo by Western Technologies, featuring a jet flying over a shimmering city landscape. We take a look at its story and share footage of the surviving demo. gamesthatwerent.com/2026/09/…
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スクエニの未発売Xbox 360タイトル『ガン★ロコ』(Gun Loco)が、約15年の時を経て発掘!! 本作は、2011年に開発中止となったスクウェア・エニックスの三人称シューターで、今回、複数の開発版からシングルプレイ部分のアンロックに成功。 約6時間にわたるプレイ映像も公開され、戦車やヘリ、宇宙船などの未公開要素も確認されていて、海外では軽い騒ぎになっている。 なお本作は、2010年の東京ゲームショウにも出展されていたので、もしかしたら日本語字幕も入っているかも? game.watch.impress.co.jp/doc…
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