The Amiga was dying in 1994, and Titus quietly let its Blues Brothers sequel die with it. The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure shipped on SNES, PC and Game Boy that year. The Amiga version never showed up at all, and for three decades that was the end of it.
Then, late last year, a collector named Denis bought a bundle of old floppy disks on eBay and found a genuine preview build sitting on one of them. He handed it to the preservation site Games That Weren’t, who published the discovery, and coder dlfrsilver picked up the far harder job: actually porting the PC version across to real Amiga 1200 hardware, by hand, three decades late.
That work is now around 80 per cent done. dlfrsilver’s custom assembly engine already runs all 34 levels at a steady 50 frames a second in 256 colours, tested and confirmed on genuine A1200 hardware rather than an emulator, with menus, the intro and outro sequences, and full audio already wired in.
There’s a decent argument that this is the most interesting kind of preservation story going: not a company finally opening a vault, but one collector’s eBay habit and one coder’s spare time doing what Titus never got round to finishing. Whether a fan finishing a cancelled 1994 port thirty years later counts as the game finally existing, or just a very good tribute act, is worth arguing about once it actually ships.
