Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1988 Skyslip Sabian Island seems to be yet another game that was advertised to buy through mail order from a software company, without actually having ever being released. I dont know how many … Continue reading
First update for August, and an almost complete Scooby Doo game has arrived from nowhere thanks to the game’s creator via the Lemon64 forums… Check it out at … Scooby Doo 4 other new entries added Aircat, Jonny Quest, The … Continue reading
1986 Elite Platforms: ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 Dragons Lair was a technical marvel in the early 80s with its impressive Laser Disc technology. Elite jumped on the bandwagon with their licence of the popular cartoon series. Whereas Dragons … Continue reading
Recently in 2011 saw the re-launch of the Bad Taste label by Keith Wood in preparation for a upcoming article in Retro Gamer magazine on Dis Baby. Coming from events of producing the article and interest from the Bad Taste … Continue reading
There are some nice surprises that turn up from time to time in the C64 scene, and one recent one has been the surfacing of the Tape / Disk masterer of Edge/Softek’s conversion of Shao Lin’s Road on the C64. … Continue reading
A quick GTW64 update from us to present the first piece of Search For Sharla seen for over 20 years in the shape of the end sequence, thanks to the work of Andy Roberts and Vinny Mainolfi. In addition to … Continue reading
Yet another PAL developments game has been fully recovered and released, and its another full game. Thanks to sterling work by Dean Hickingbottom to recover the game from his C64 disks and recompile it after 26 years, we are proud … Continue reading
Not seen even by Simon since 1989, we are proud to present the infamous road routine which Simon produced to prove a point to Mark Kelly after seeing Turbo Outrun. It’s not playable, but was all that was produced and … Continue reading
Following on from other recent recoveries comes another title which has been fixed up by Fix, Bieno, Pugsy and Jazzcat over the past few months. This time another full game which was meant to have seen the light of day … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 198? OIC Ltd Life on Planet Srexis is threatened! so starts the blurb describing the OIC Ltd game Sixers. The game is a grid based puzzle game but little more is known, simply … Continue reading
Some great news, but John Darnell (developer of the Kane series, Jet Set Willy 2, Dragon’s Lair and many others) has decided to resurrect his long lost Sleepwalker game that was originally meant for Software Projects. The game was in … Continue reading
Author of the Codemasters graphic adventure Slightly Magic, Colin Jones, has set up a new Kickstarter project to resurrect the game in a 8-bit legacy edition (with faithfulness to the original graphics), but also with an extra special incentive which … Continue reading
Eagle-eyed visitors may have noticed our cryptic note on the end of our last GTW64 news update. Well, we have something a little special for you coming up on the site, and hopefully a bit of Christmas come early. It’s … Continue reading
Back in the days before SEGA’s trusty blue mascot appeared on the scene, the company would licence its various games to the likes of Activision, and U.S. Gold – resulting in conversions of Afterburner, Outrun and many more for home computers of the time. Continue reading
Another big finding for 2015!…. Soul Gem Of Martek recovered Unfortunately not the full game (which may not have existed), but GTW is proud to present remains of a title that has been missing for over 30 years. Amazingly, not … Continue reading
Carl Muller did a fantastic job squeezing in Speedball 2 onto the Commodore 64 back in 1991. However, it was at a cost in various areas … and most notably was for some of the in-between screens. Commodore Format in … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives Designed as the sequel to the highly thought of Star Fleet, Star Fleet II was aimed at being bigger, better and more complex than its already complex predecessor. Both were war simulation games … Continue reading
GTW’s Jazzcat has been busy arranging for a number of years the translation and release of a long lost game called Star of Africa. Well, finally the time has come and everything is now completed. Here you can find the … Continue reading
Following on swiftly from the amazing recovery of Monster Muncher on the VIC-20, we now have the Commodore 64 edition of Stargate by Atarisoft for you. A long lost development by Tom Griner which has been part of our search … Continue reading
1988 Canvas Software / U.S Gold Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore 64 As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding additional assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus … Continue reading
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