Amiga Games That Weren’t dips into the deep pool of unreleased Wolfenstein 3D and Doom clone engines on the Amiga:

Alastair M. Robinson’s AMRWolf is an early texture-mapped and ray casting engine created using the Amiga’s Copper Chunky mode and a combination of AMOS Pro and machine code. Alastair returns to the pages of aGTW to talk about his engine.

Alex Amsel, of XTreme Racing fame, discusses his Dent A Wolf / DentECTS / Dentaku-26 engine. Two versions of the engine exist; a basic release intended to attract fellow developers and a more advanced version for publishers to view at the European Computer Trade Show (ECTS).

 

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Head over to Amiga Games That Weren’t for four new entries!

Amiga Putty Squad isn’t the only version of that game which wasn’t released. aGTW’s detour into the world of the Playstation 2 and the unreleased Putty Squad PS2 fills in some gaps about the Amiga version. Andy Roberts answers our questions.

Siegemaster is a strategy and RPG game which demonstrates that a full review in a magazine (the notoriously unreliable Amiga Action) is no indication that a game was released. We speak to Edward Grabowski about his game.

Finally, John Dale talks to aGTW about two of his games. Pipeline is an early version of the game that eventually became Pipe Mania and Pipe Dream. This pre-release version differs from the final game in a number of ways. John created another puzzler called Rotoplex. Unlike Pipeline, this game was not eventually released.

 

 

 

 

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In 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.

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In this update we talk 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.

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For the first update of 2009 aGTW takes 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.

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After 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.

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Happy new year from Amiga Games That Weren’t!

We have six new entries for you: complete games No Buddies Land and In Shadow of Time plus demos of AMRVoxel, FratzenGeballer, Fatal Noise and Alchemy.

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Back in the 90s Adrian Cummings created Amiga games such as Doodlebug, Cyberpunks and Tin Toy Adventure under the name Mutation Software. In this update we look back at his early, unfinished games.

Arcadia demo / Our-Type
Vaporizer
Outlander
Beach-Head
Beach-Head II
Raid Over Moscow
Man Machine
Egg
Flipover
Orb-It
City Limits
Outlander II
Vac-Suit Jack
Fantastic Island

Bet you didn’t know that Beach-Head was heading for the Amiga!

Additionally, we have a nearly complete game called Blast Squad and take a look at the RPG Deep Silence: The Secret of my Soul. Remember to check out the the sprite sheets in the Extras sections for both these games.

Amiga Games That Weren’t can be found here.

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The Amiga Games That Weren’t site is now back, after a short time offline while servers were relocated.

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