Lost-Media Website ‘Games That Weren’t’ Celebrates 25th Anniversary

The site was started all the way back in 1999.

The lost-media/games preservation website Games That Weren’t is currently celebrating 25 years since its initial formation.

Inspired by Ian Osborne’s Commodore Force article “That Was The Game That Wasn’t”, Frank Gasking first started the project as a column in Commodore Zone magazine back in the mid-to-late 90s, with his brother-in-law Colin suggesting the title “Games That Weren’t”. However, it wasn’t until 1999 that he would take the column online, building his own website with the help of the internet service provider Freeserve and Microsoft Word 1997.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

The site was started all the way back in 1999.

The lost-media/games preservation website Games That Weren’t is currently celebrating 25 years since its initial formation.

Inspired by Ian Osborne’s Commodore Force article “That Was The Game That Wasn’t”, Frank Gasking first started the project as a column in Commodore Zone magazine back in the mid-to-late 90s, with his brother-in-law Colin suggesting the title “Games That Weren’t”. However, it wasn’t until 1999 that he would take the column online, building his own website with the help of the internet service provider Freeserve and Microsoft Word 1997.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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