ALA Software were an obscure company from the US who defined their games as “Games with Guts”. They were part of a mother company called ALA Enterprises (which was a record label). All software was written by General Masters Corporation. … Continue reading →
A little game which is a sequel to another game which never got finished. You may know the 3rd entry, which was actually finished and released in the Crap Game Compo in recent years called "Ake Goes Medievil". Ake goes … Continue reading →
The first in a series of three remarkable games, but most remarkable for the fact that only the 3rd game in the series has been finished and released at a crap game competition in recent years. Ake starts his adventure … Continue reading →
A rather interesting story with another game which had an earlier version … but one which was infinately better it seems than what was eventually released. Airwolf 2 was released on the Hitpak collection as the final game was awful. … Continue reading →
Before Elite got the licence for Airwolf, Ocean Software actually started producing the home computer conversions. Although it was advertised for the Spectrum in the scan, it was infact also planned for the C64 until Elite Software won a legal … Continue reading →
Aftermath recently surfaced to GTW thanks to Jason Whitener who kindly brought it to our attention. The game is a US based game that was programmed by Mark A. Dickenson, who was active on Qlink back in the day (and … Continue reading →
A very quick entry, but in an article by Commodore Format and written by Gary Penn, it was mentioned that Gary Liddon had written a game called Advanced Soccer Simulator for Codemasters back in the day which was never released. … Continue reading →
Dungeons and Dragons was a gaming phenomena that started in the 1970s when historical gaming enthusiasts, Gary Gygax created his own rules to tabletop battlefield gaming and focused it on a small group of heroes sneaking into a castle. The … Continue reading →
A little puzzle game which was planned for the popular German games magazine, Magic Disk. This preview features 5 levels of puzzle shuffling to represent the pictures supplied with the puzzle. This is by no means a new idea. A … Continue reading →
Brought to my attention by Jason Kelk, AD Infinitum is a early version of W.A.R which was released by Martech in 1986. You may wonder what a game like this is doing in the GTW archives, but you will notice … Continue reading →
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