Frank Gasking    Things have mostly paused with updates and preservation work for Games That Weren’t due to the recent loss of my mum. Today though, I’m finally able to share some positive news: a Polish edition of the Games That Weren’t book is now available for pre-order: https: gknb.pl Continue reading ’

Frank Gasking    Tinhead is best known as a Sega Mega Drive platformer released in 1993, though it received little attention at the time. A Super Nintendo port was completed but never officially released back in the day (but got a physical release by Piko Interactive in 2019). A Jaguar version was also in...

Frank Gasking    One of the rarest Cartoon Network PC games has just received its most complete preservation to date. Cartoon Network’s Toon Jam - a 1995 Windows title featuring Red Book audio tracks and FMV segments, and which has long been a tough find for collectors and preservationists alike. Continue reading ’

Frank Gasking    Kick Off was converted to pretty much every platform of its day, including the NES quite late on in 1991. However, whilst backing up some old 5.25 floppies from the Enigma Variations archive, we found a big surprise in the shape of a Super Kick Off prototype build for Nintendo’s console, which...

Frank Gasking    A smaller update this month, with a new entry on a cancelled Rocky Memphis game and then updates on 5 pre-existing entries in the archive. We should have a lot more C64 content for you very soon - including some big findings Continue reading ’

Patrick Furlong    Before you say anything, I know this game came out and that Amstrad Action gave away the game on their September 1992 cover tape as I have that tape and played it to death. But there is evidence of an earlier (or later) unreleased version. Continue reading ’

Frank Gasking    From the archives of Atari graphic artist Jerome Domurat, archivist John Hardie found a disk labelled Earthquake , and so begins our look at yet another lost Atari game. Continue reading ’

Frank Gasking    Thanks to Csaba Virág, we’ve been given a rare bug report video from 1990 and for Novotrade’s Bugs Bunny’s Cartoon Workshop package. This has been preserved by Péter Gyöngyössy, who found and digitized the tape. Continue reading ’

Frank Gasking    Thanks to the brilliant preservation work of Steve Brown of the TZX Vault, we are proud to present for the very first time, an extremely early Jeff Minter title from 1981. This was for the ZX81 and has been missing for 44 years - yet to be preserved, until today Here is a version of Conway’s Life...

Frank Gasking    Thanks to the incredible efforts of our friend LiqMatrix, the KATT (Keyboard And Terminal Technology) Game Master, an extremely rare mid-1990s DOS gaming keyboard, has been preserved for everyone to explore. Continue reading ’