Games That Weren't^®

NOTE: This game is (c) Hanna Barbera, and is distributed freely without any profit as part of a digital preservation project. With thanks to David A Palmer productions. Yet another surprise addition to the archives, and one we had no … Continue reading →

Warriors is a rather Rastan looking game which was being produced back in 1988 by a group called Modern Arts for Rainbow Arts. You control a warrior character who jumps across platforms in a horizontal scrolling game. Best way to … Continue reading →

Warspite is a cool Shoot ’em up game, bit like Delta which was written by Phillip Ruston. The game was never commercially released for reasons unknown, though its quite a nice little shooter. Phil recently got in touch with GTW, … Continue reading →

A Hungarian title which has been found by Csaba Virag, and which is a simple strategy game written by Christian Szegedy (cSSc). Christian also coded the game Ural that was released in 1990 but didn’t do much else apart from … Continue reading →

Created by Steve Evans, famous for classics such as Guardian. This game was a very sly Commando clone, and as soon as Elite (who owned the rights to converting Commando) saw the game, they gained an injunction to stop it … Continue reading →

For this game, we go back to when the C64 was dying out, or at least Commodore Format was, and there was a little spurt of new games coming from various sources. One such game was ‘Wilberforce’, which looked like … Continue reading →

Unreleased and unknown for 30 years until being released as part of FREEZE64’s Christmas Special for subscribers in late 2020. Winning Streak was a simple betting game that was written by Jonathan Temples, who is better known as the graphic … Continue reading →

One of the harder things to ascertain when investigating a potential GTW is sorting out those games that are simply ‘Missing in Action’ from the genuine ‘Games That Weren’t’. Wizard’s Dominion is one such game. A Dungeons & Dragon’s game … Continue reading →

Now for a start, we’re not 100% certain if this was intended for release on the actual Hi-tec label, as you will find out below. Wonderball has been floating around for a while and is a simple platform game with … Continue reading →

A mini battle game, and even though it looks like a type-in game, its quite addictive in its own little way. It’s somekind of Combat clone, with a larger play area and smaller characters. It’s somehow very playable, just by … Continue reading →

World Boxing Champ was a strategy based game to be released by Visualize back in 1994 and was advertised in their 1994 catalogue. But actually, it should have been released by Cult Software back in 1992. Cult had decided at … Continue reading →

Worron is a rather bizarre little title, which was never advertised, and only came about thanks to Richard Paynter getting in touch to shed some light on the title. Rick signed a contact with Firebird in October 1987 to complete … Continue reading →