Welcome to Amiga Games That Weren'tLegend tells of a breed of Amiga games that never crawled out of the primordial development swamp of their early existence. Games that never stood blinking in the sunlight of the gaming world. Games that were never devoured by predators of the Amiga jungle. They are the... Amiga Games That Weren't. Some 5,000 Amiga games were released commercially. However, there are a significant number that were never released. The aim of this site is to find out what happened to them and (if possible) allow them to be released. Expect many to be lost forever. It'll be an interesting journey nonetheless. Amiga Games That Weren't is a companion site to Frank Gasking's Games That Weren't 64 and Timo Weirich's PC Games That Weren't sites. It's also worth checking out the Games That Weren't portal at gtwportal.retro-net.de. The data on unreleased games is primarily based on raw data from the Hall Of Light with further information discovered during investigations. Adrian Simpson. aGTW NewsTue 28 April 2009In our latest update Frankenstein's monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Count Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Creature From The Black Lagoon and the Mummy all join forces on the Amiga in a Knight Lore inspired isometric puzzler. We speak to Gary Bracey, Simon Butler and Mike Halsall about Universal Monsters. Mon 19 January 2009aGTW talks to the developers of two slick platformers, Agricola and Babylonian Twins. Agricola is an Italian platformer about a farmer and Babylonian Twins is a historical-based game written in Iraq around the time of the first Gulf War. Wed 14 January 2009For the first update of 2009 we take a look at some of unreleased (and released) games from Softeyes/Team Hoi: Ragnov is a late 80s multi-player maze exploration game. Hawkwind is the former name for Venom Wing (which was released). Hoi & Hoi Remix AGA is a platformer that WAS released but is covered in aGTW for reasons covered in the entry! Moon Child AGA is a sort of sequel to Hoi with the same type of colourful platform action. Mon 29 December 2008After a long break, Amiga Games That Weren't is back with four new entries: Harold the Hairy Hermit is a platform game where the titular Harold must rescue puppies. Four mystery games are curious screenshots that were found on the One Step Beyond disks. FLOWER is a colourful clear-'em-up and platformer. Dragon is a shoot-'em-up with some beat-'em-up elements. The website has also been rejigged and generally updated to a new design by eLowar. Sun 31 December 2006To bring in the new year we welcome a new member to the aGTW team - Nico (x_to)! Nico has been in touch with one of the developers of No Buddies Land, so here's a last minute present! Nico has also been talking to the developers of In Shadow Of Time and presents a full version: There is also a three disk and early version of Fatal Noise: We also look at AMRVoxel, an early-stage racing engine: Plus an advanced first person shooter: And a mysterious demo of a game (please get in touch if you know more about this one): Tue 14 November 2006Has it been that long since the last update? Firstly we take a look at most of Mutation's unreleased games: In addition, we have a full version of a Bomberman game called Blast Squad... ... and a great looking Zelda-but-on-the-Amiga RPG called Deep Silence: Deep Silence: The Secret Of My Soul Sun 21 May 2006Thanks to Jürgen Beck we can present five aGTWs from German developers: Das Verstecken-Spiel: Die Ostereier Suche In addition we look at two unfinished games that are available as demos: ACSYS: Autonomous Cybernetic System Sun 9 April 2006Here's a significant find - Snow Bros! Immediate thanks go to The Wolf, Denis (dlfrsilver) and the SPS team. More later. Mon 20 March 2006"Dystopian" is the word on everyone's lips as aGTW takes a look at Crimetown Depths and speaks to its coder Paolo Costabel. Wed 8 March 2006Here are two behemoths of games that weren't on the Amiga. We talk to one of the graphics artists of Putty Squad AGA and offer the demo as a download (the full version is still missing). Liquid Kids is available as a full download along with a Q&A session with Thierry Levastre. Thu 16 February 2006This is Dragon's Kingdom, a sideways scrolling beat-'em-up in the style of Shadow of the Beast. The Q&A with the developers has the full story with a one level demo as a download. Thu 15 December 2005Here's another exciting full game that was due to be released by Psygnosis. Indigo is brought to you by its author Stephane Belin, musician Mike Clarke and WHDLoad guru Bertrand Jardel. The Atari ST version is also available. Sun 30 October 2005aGTW is launched (with a simple site). There is only one game so far but it's a complete and previously unreleased Amiga game that was due to be a commercial title! |
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