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A cancelled video game adaption of of the cult animated film "9" (Shane Acker, Tim Burton) was in early development at 7 Studios. Despite being cancelled, production material from the game has been and archived on Google Drive! drive.google.com/drive/folders/… #9movie #LostMedia

HiWar was a Red Alert-style RTS by Virtual Design, cancelled due to the shrinking #Amiga market. A demo survived and was recovered by Rygar Łukasz - thanks to the dev! A PC version later became Tridonis in 1998. gamesthatwerent.com/2025/04/hiwar/

This week, the unreleased #NES prototype of Tip-Off has been recovered at Games That Weren't! Experience what remains of the game and hear the long-lost David Whittaker music, compiled from source. gamesthatwerent.com/2025/04/tip-of…

Morning everyone - doing two posts today, then having a short holiday break after pretty much missing the Easter break. Normal service will resume from next Monday. Hope you're enjoying the posts/updates so far this year, and see you all soon!

First up - released today on GTW is a very early 1992 #Nintendo #SNES prototype platformer called Chaos Drop. Developed by Enigma Variations, the game was dropped and eventually morphed into Magician's Apprentice for PC/Konix. Check out early builds here: gamesthatwerent.com/2025/05/chaos-…

Finally - Our fifth Games That Weren't #Commodore64 update of 2025 with 8 brand new entries added, with remains of a Pacman game for Mastertronic, a lost Zzap64 submission + more. Then 9 existing entry updates, including Airwolf 2 V1 + The Last Stuntman: gamesthatwerent.com/2025/05/gtw64-…

Cyan, the creators of the Myst series, saved hundreds of video tapes from the making of their iconic adventure game franchise. We at the Video Game History Foundation helped preserve them. Here's what we found: youtube.com/watch?v=ee8Iiv…

I got sent a TON of development carts and prototypes to dump! youtu.be/Q39Fpw6zm1g

ICYMI: the Video Game History Foundation just acquired a giant lot of mystery development ROMs from Japan (NES/MSX, from Taito?), and we're going to digitize and dissect them live on stream next Thursday, June 4th at 1pm PDT: youtube.com/watch?v=5nFA72…

more stuff arrived, although most of this is dumped and for reference. There are 8 e-kara user carts, a replacement for the Duel Masters cart that was dead, and a Power KIDS Jr. XaviXport game though.

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the JAKKS Pacific Bejeweled Deluxe plug and play was dumped. This one is on GPL16250 type hardware, so no sound emulation at the moment, and some graphical errors (zooming / rotating background doesn't work) Left with the NOT WORKING flag for now but it is playable.

TYRIAN’S TOWERS by ICON64, available to buy now from: psytronik.bigcartel.com/product/tyrian… Feature and cheats coming soon to an issue of FREEZE64 FREEZE64.com #Commodore64 #C64

I have three Unreleased Dreamcast games, two of which are unknown😇. Unfortunately, you'll have to be patient, as it won't be available for at least six months, if not a year. On this page, you will find everything you need to do until then: …dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/mes-unrelea…

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Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book One Challenges is the first JAKKS Pacific Plug and Play dump for today, runs fine in MAME

Another lost game recovered! Today we're releasing early builds of the cancelled and previously unknown Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes conversion for the #GameBoyAdvance. Developed by DC Studios in 2000, scrapped before release. Full story: gamesthatwerent.com/2025/06/army-m…

Update time, the seller has labeled.. 241 carts so far and there is around 60 left to go. There is 11 confirmed carts of Rythem Thief, but not sure if the cancelled DS port or a mix of both DS/3DS. The picture below is just a handful they have labeled so far. More info is

JAKKS Pacific Thomas and Friends - Right on Time was dumped. This is an SPG110 game and has some emulation issues as a result. 2 different units were dumped, one UK and one US but they're from the same date, just different build times.

The retail version of JAKKS Pacific Mutant Reign was dumped. There are some changes to the code compared to the version that was supplied by the developer of the game, not sure if they make any difference to the end result, but they appear to be legitimate changes.