Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Mystery solving has been something we’ve been doing for years now, though there are many times that we hit dead ends and just cannot progress any further. Solving the mystery of who the 80’s development group “Softeam” were exactly is … Continue reading
A quick post to highlight another C64 title preserved, thanks to the efforts of Allan Pinkerton, who has been slowly helping to recover a large number of unpreserved educational titles for the platform. Today we see the release of Whole … Continue reading
1982 Commodore Platform: Commodore Vic 20 A short entry for a title that we are not 100% certain at this stage was ever started, but has featured for years on the Ward Shrake Vapourware list. The list contains a number … Continue reading
A small post on an earlier build of Wizard of Wor that has been highlighted to us by Roberto Nicoletti. Some years ago, Jeff Bruette released all of the source code to the game, which was then very carefully compiled … Continue reading
Some years ago I was talking on the Lemon 64 of a strange recollection of a rather different looking version of the C64 Wonderboy. I had the budget edition of the game, which I played to death – but also … Continue reading
1994 Healthwise Platforms: PC and Commodore Amiga Wrecked: A Psychedelic Adventure was an Amiga and PC platformer, developed by KKOS and was apparently published by Healthwise. However, at present – only a shareware demo of the PC version currently exists. … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1985 Activision Initially released on the Spectrum by Activision, before being re-released by Mastertronic, Xcel is described by Sinclair User as Star Trek, Space Invaders and Centipede rolled into one. Sadly the game … Continue reading
Following on from our recent Parallel Logic piece – I also recently got speaking with Paul Kubiszyn to find out more about XLCUS, which was a short lived company which was aiming to keep the C64 going. I only needed … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1987 Diamond Software Xtron was due to be released by Diamond Software, along with various other releases, Diablo, Hollywood Poker and Kaos. However, it seems only Diablo received a release, judging by entries … Continue reading
Another GTW64 update which includes: 3 new entries added Amazon Tales, Hangman, Ultimate Stunt Boat Challenge 3 updates added Device for Alien Destruction, Microprose Soccer V1, Star Tech Games
More this week, mostly in the way of new entries and a series of updates with scanned items added. No new games to play this time unfortunately, but we hope to have more soon. Enjoy! 30 new entries added Benny … Continue reading
Yves Grolet, programmer on Amiga classics such as Agony and Unreal (so not the Epic game!) has recently archived and released remains of his Amiga hard drive and various floppy disks to the public domain. These include the full sources … Continue reading
First GTW64 update for July, which includes the following Zone of Darkness level assets recovered Zone Of Darkness 2 new entries added Body Slam, Circus Circus 7 updates added Arsenal FC, Brides Of Dracula, Heavy Barrel, Rex, The Rocky Horror … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives Icon Software 1984 What is it with fantasy games from the 1980s and the letter Z? So many characters, particularly in American fantasy (so it seemed to me) start with the letter Z. … Continue reading
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