Games That Weren't^®

Another GTW entry and yet another Codemasters non-release to go into the vault. Mission Jupiter is not a late title like CJ’s 4th, but infact a very early Codemasters game which was being converted from the Spectrum original by Derek … Continue reading →

Another potential GTW which was highlighted by Peter Weighill and comes from an advert in the June 1983 issue of Commodore Computing International. The game was described as so: “Drive through the mine filled mazes collecting as many money bags … Continue reading →

An educational game which might be out there, but has yet to be preserved. Or is it a title that never quite made it? Monkeybuilder has a 256 word set, designed to increase spelling and vocabulary skills into 17 different … Continue reading →

Monster Maths was a title to be released on the Commodore 64 by a company called Shards in 1985, and was reviewed in Your Commodore Magazine issue 08, receiving a reasonable score overall. It seems that either the company went … Continue reading →

Thanks to Carlos Vazquez for highlighting this one. Monster Squad potentially is a title which was based on the 1987 movie. The question is whether the ACEUK company was a proper company, and if this was a proper quick cash … Continue reading →

Thanks to Boerge Noest for highlighting this rather obscure game which was mentioned and discussed in Norweigen magazine Mikrodata back in 1984. Apart from a discussion with the developers (In Norweigen at present, but here we go: Page 1, Page … Continue reading →

An interesting new GTW entry this time from Silverbird, who advertised this game within inlays of other games and also on a magazine advert (where the screenshot comes from). It’s thanks to Richard Hewison from The Bird Sanctuary that this … Continue reading →

Nothing much to our next entry I’m afraid. Mr. Pilic is a game from 2011 that seems to be a Manic Miner clone of sorts, but not currently playable (at least I wasn’t able to control anything). There’s a dog … Continue reading →

A quick entry for a title that has recently been recovered and released over at http://www.pagetable.com/?p=940 . This is a title that was written back in 1986 by Peter Hempel and written in German. It has been translated in 2018 … Continue reading →

Hidden in the Thalamus archives is a game called Nuker. A bizzare name, but a rather interesting game! Standing for “NUclear SnooKER”, the obective is for the player to guide his spherical craft around randomly shaped areas, shooting spherical toxic … Continue reading →

Even after many years of GTW running, there are still many interesting titles and bits being uncovered, and this was been the case yet again in 2021 with a finding thanks to the preservation efforts of Csaba Virag who found … Continue reading →

Now then, our next entry is a title which was never advertised in the press or mentioned. It was highlighted to us when Andrew Morris (Magnetic Fields graphic artist, who did graphics for Kikstart 2, Lotus 2 and many others) … Continue reading →

Thanks to the section from Gamebase, a game which they are also searching for, i’m able to produce a strong review for this game. Most sections are borrowed from the Gamebase review, so therefore credits are given at the foot. … Continue reading →