Unseen64 was born in 2001, from the passion of some italian gamers: we were young and with a lot of free time, we loved to archive screens of prototypes and unreleased games and it was just for fun that we kept working on U64 until it became the huge archive that you see today.

What is so interesting about beta or cancelled games? People like older builds of games for different reasons. Some want to see what their favorite game once looked like, beta builds can have features not in final versions of games that some would find entertaining or interesting. Humans have a natural sake for things unknown and a game that was never released has a special aura that no other released game will never be able to achieve.

Every change in a game makes a different gaming experience for us… we would like to save some documents about this evolution for curiosity, historic and artistic preservation. Sadly we are not young anymore: we have families, full-time jobs, bills to pay and other real-life commitments that keep us busy 24/7.

So until we find some rich businessman that would pay us a full salary to research unseen games, we decided that Unseen64 will not cover new games for current-gen consoles (PS4, XBONE, Wii U) and not even “current gen” handleds as the 3DS or PSVita. We would not be able to do a good work when we are already in trouble to cover all the most interesting beta and cancelled games for the “retro” consoles. So Unseen64 is now an archive of Retro-Unseen-Games till the seventh generation of consoles.

And trust us, there are still HUNDREDS of unseen retro games for Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Microsoft and other consoles to be added to Unseen64! And if you want even more unseen games? Check our friends at Assembler Games, Games That Weren't, Past to Present Online and The Cutting Room Floor :)