Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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The latest issue of the free C64 fanzine, RESET has been released, which features a new regular Games That Weren’t section. This month covering Genesis’ Spellcast game. Check out the magazine and download from here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=128792
The latest issue of the free C64 fanzine, RESET has been released, which features a full GTW article on System 3’s Fuzzball game. Check out the magazine and download here: http://reset.cbm8bit.com/?dir=issue3
A very quick addition to the archives, with a unused loading picture by Oliver Lindau that was meant for Rolling Ronny on the C64. And also recently a sprite that was never used (sprites btw were apparently designed in … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1987 Games Designers Workshop Rommel: Battles for Torbruk by Games Designers Workshop (GDW) was planned to be a war strategy game, based around four battles fought between the WWII German commander Rommel and … Continue reading
A quick unused materials post today, where The Sarge recently released an unused Rubicon loading screen for the Commodore 64 via their Fairlight Demo called The Demo Coder. With thanks to Jazzcat for flagging up!
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1984 Triffid Research Software When it comes to RPGs one of the obstacles computer games have always had to overcome is how to proficiently transfer the unlimited experience of playing a pen and … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1984 Triffid Software Research For a more detailed analysis of Triffid Software Research and the Runemagic Adventure Series, read the entry for The Secret River. A quick summary is that a series of … Continue reading
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
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