Games That Weren't^®

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 one for you, this time from a catalogue which advertised a Multipack of games which included: Nine Men Morris Cymon Gammon 64 There is a Nine Mens Morris game in Gamebase, but this has now been confirmed to … 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 →

Not unreleased it seems, but a hard to find set of titles which aid with writing which had been missing for some time. Allan Pinkerton has kindly preserved 3 of 4 titles in the series, which we are pleased to … Continue reading →

A tragic tale for this title, where Plotting was in fact fully completed and even reviewed by the top C64 magazines at the time. The game was planned for Cartridge release, to allow for instantaneous action and plenty of graphical … Continue reading →

A colourful single screen platform adventure game comes in the form of a oddly named game ‘Pluff’… Named after the blobby main character who has to go around various rooms collecting various objects, in classic JSW style action. The game … Continue reading →

A short entry for a Pong game that has been recovered by Csaba Virag, and what seems to be a German pong game that was potentially released and written by Matthias Goldmann. The game seems pretty complete, but we’re not … Continue reading →

Even after well over 20 years since the formation of the GTW64 digital archive, we are still often surprised by what turns up from time to time. In October 2021 is yet another surprise thanks to preservationist Ken Van Mersbergen. … Continue reading →