#gtw

Did you know a brand new Gauntlet game was completed for the Nintendo DS… but never released?

Despite being reviewed by magazines such as Retro Gamer, the game was cancelled before it reached the shelves. Thankfully it survives today.

More details:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2020/11/gauntlet-ds/

Epsilon is an impressive early unreleased vertical shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64 by Paul Hughes and Dawn Drake, originally in development for Rainbird in 1988. Preview builds, source code and its fascinating story have thankfully survived:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/epsilon/

For more history and details on Rainbird, checkout the "Memories of Rainbird and Beyond Software" Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zzap642021annual/memories-of-rainbird-and-beyond-software

Missing He-Man games? U.S. Gold advertised Amstrad CPC, IBM PC and Commodore 16 versions of Masters of the Universe: The Super Adventure and The Arcade Game, but they never appeared. Can anything of them be found?

Source code has been recovered for Imagitec's unreleased Raiden (Amiga/Atari Falcon), with sources suggesting around 8 Amiga levels and additional Falcon content beyond the known 3-level shareware build. We've also added early Space Junk (Atari Falcon) sources. Huge thanks to tomseddon for preserving the archive and dlfrsilver for the heads up!

To coincide with Richard Hewison's new "Memories of Rainbird and Beyond Software" Kickstarter, we've added R.A.I.L to the archive - Rainbird's ambitious unfinished adventure creation system by John Jones-Steele. Could someone continue its development?

Raiden was one of the biggest arcade shooters of the 1990s. But did you know planned Amiga and Atari Falcon conversions never made it to release? Today we take a look at both surviving versions and what happened to them.

More details + downloads: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/06/raiden/

Thanks to h0ffman and Karl Kuras for the heads up (and apologies for the delay!)

Very rare footage and screenshots of Big Five Software's unreleased Scraper Caper for the Atari 8-bit range has resurfaced. See Bounty Bob's abandoned firefighting adventure and what might have been.

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/04/scraper-caper/

Big month for the Commodore 64 archive! Arcade Wizzard finally recovered after 22 years of searching, joined by the complete unreleased game Void, an Australian prototype of Aussie Games, two newly preserved releases, 3 new entries and 14 archive updates: