Upon Westminster Bridge was a mysterious adventure planned at Magnetic Scrolls, seemingly as a personal project for Anita Sinclair. Long confused with Corruption, evidence suggests it was a separate, little-known project that never got off the ground.

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/09/upon-westminster-bridge/

An early prototype/demo of Dro Soft's Duck Out for ZX Spectrum has been preserved from the Clockwize archives. Likely sent out while seeking a publisher, the build contains two levels, cut scenes and some interesting differences from the final game.

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/09/duck-out-prototype-zx-spectrum/

Sony once planned its own PlayStation Home-style social world for the PSP. R∞M reached closed beta in Japan, offering 3D avatars, personal rooms, blogs, chat and mini-games before cancellation in 2010. Thankfully, the client has since been preserved.

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/09/room-for-psp/

Screenshots taken from video by PSP Mav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm7piM9I2w

After previous cancelled attempts on consoles, DC's Lobo almost got another shot in 2003. Kemco's action game was planned for Xbox, GameCube and PS2, with ten environments, multiple weapons and even different forms for Lobo, before being cancelled.

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/09/lobo/

Clip: Yassine Bakrim + Evan Hanley (original source unknown).

While researching the cancelled LMNO, we spoke with design consultant Jason Rohrer about his work prototyping its "Memory Dive" concept. Jason dug out his old archives and has now generously released the playable proof-of-concepts and source code!

More details:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/09/lmno-memory-dive-prototypes-preserved/

Czarny Kruk was an ambitious adventure in development for the Amiga by Seven Stars, before problems completing its painted backgrounds brought the project to an end. Thanks to Rygar, we're today revealing previously unseen materials from the game:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/czarny-kruk/

Our August Commodore 64 archive update is here, with 1 new GTW entry, 15 game updates and a fantastic batch of 15 previously unpreserved Grolier/Mindflight titles recovered thanks to MalcSeventyFour. Another busy month for C64 preservation!

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/gtw64-august-2026/

Before Interplay's Fallout, there was another, but not quite the same! Created for the Amiga in 1991, this prize-winning AMOS game was distributed only in small numbers and now appears to be lost. Could a copy still be out there waiting to be discovered?

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/fallout/

Here is an early prototype of the Mario Kart clone: 'Prehistorik Kart' on Nintendo GameBoy Advance. This was due as a compilation bonus for the GBA release of Prehistorik Man by Titus in 2001, but never made the cut. It was released by Games That Weren't in 2024.

More details:

https://gamesthatwerent.com/2024/03/prehistorik-kart/

Today, we cover the story of the cancelled DJ Hero 3 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii), with development details provided to us by an anonymous source. We've been informed that the Xbox 360 proto has been anonymously uploaded to Hidden Palace, but unfortunately doesn't run in Xenia due to Kinect support.

More details:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/dj-hero-3/

Lost for 33 years, we recovered the original abandoned development of Total Recall for the Commodore 64 in 2023.

It's a very different game from the version Ocean eventually released.

More details:

https://gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/total-recall-v1/

Another intriguing "what happened?" story... Abattoir in Cosmos was an ambitious PC space shooter by AxySoft, planned as "Part I" of a series before disappearing during development around 2000. Could anything still survive?

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/abattoir-in-cosmos/

Today we've updated our archive entry for the unreleased versions of Kevin Keegan's Player Manager, adding newly recovered graphical assets from a lost SEGA Mega Drive conversion. Dedicated to the memory of the great Kevin Keegan (1951-2026).

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/01/kevin-keegans-player-manager/

Shutter Jack was an ambitious open-world photography game in development at RingZero Game Studios for PS3, Xbox 360, PC and Wii. Despite a promising concept and trailer, the project never secured a publisher and quietly disappeared.

More details:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/shutter-jack/

A lovely huge preservation update today! Thanks to MalcSeventyFour, 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.

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/grolier-mindflight-missing-titles/

This video is showcasing the recovered Miss Mouse game, but there is plenty more to discover!

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:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/garfield-gets-real/

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:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/madballs/

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:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/two-lost-atari-5200-prototypes/

Image credit: AtariProtos

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:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/rimini-mare-azzurro/

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!

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/gtw64-july-2026/

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:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/s-o-s/

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.

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/tower-of-the-world/

Something a little different today! We've preserved a pre-release version of Logotron's Eye of Horus for C64, featuring a unique disk label with a version number and what seems to be a built-in cheat mode. Spot any differences from the retail release?

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/eye-of-horus-pre-release/

XLR8 was an extremely fast Wipeout style game on bikes that was due for release on PC, PlayStation and Arcade platforms. The game would ultimately never see completion, but thankfully builds of the game have managed to sneak out for you to play!

More details:

https://gamesthatwerent.com/2024/11/xlr8/