Games That Weren't^®

Nope, you’re swanking brand new widescreen colour TV hasn’t gone up the creak… just our next preview has gone a little greyscale… hurrah for the final band of b/w tv owners out there! Luckily, the game is nothing to do … Continue reading →

EDIT – Developer eventually completed game and it can now be found at csdb.dk/release/?id=166946 I loved the original Rent-a-cop game when it was released in the 2012 RGCD games competition. It was a brilliant tribute to Activision’s Keystone Capers game … Continue reading →

Hold on a sec… this looks a little familiar… Take Player’s"Turbo Kart Racer", jazz up the graphics and change the karts to motorbikes, and you get "Retro Torque". This little update by Paul Black was done especially for Commodore Force … Continue reading →

Advertised in Home Computer Weekly issue 104, Rhyme Land was to be an educational game where children can develop their skills of logic and deduction, improve their reading and spelling, and at the same time have tremendous fun. There were … Continue reading →

Our next entry was flagged up by Gamebase64, as we’re not actually sure if the game ever saw a full release or not. Maybe you can help us? The game has been within the digital archives since its supposed release … Continue reading →

We completely missed this great finding by Ken Van Mersbergen back last year on the Atari Age website. Rockball was to be released way back in 1983 by a company called Roklan, and was a conversion of an arcade game … Continue reading →

A very short entry, as technically this was released – but only briefly! Rocket Roger had a reputation of being a rock hard game, but it also went through two iterations! Initially when previewed and briefly sold at a PCW … Continue reading →

A very interesting new GTW entry, and a game which was part of a competition held by 64’er magazine back in 1993. Rockus was one of the entries for the competition, but sadly didn’t win, and hence was never released … Continue reading →

A very quick entry to add an early game by Ivan Venturi called Ruba e fuggi (or Steal and Flee), which was due for release back in 1986 on the Simulmondo label, but was never to be. The game has … Continue reading →

Next up is a strange edutainment game called Sakkozo Elefant, which roughly translates to “Chess Elephant”, a game where you are taught chess by an elephant. It seems to have been written in a mixture of German and Hungarian, so … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title which was mentioned back in 2006 by Peter Sandén, but something I had completely forgot to add to the archive! This was a Swedish graphic games adventure which was made just after the second … Continue reading →

“Take the part of Al Wrong in his quest for his first sexual experience” That’s the opening description for a game that was found hidden away on Ashley Routledge’s CNet download disks. Uploaded to CNet by P.Hardcastle of P.H.Atholsoft and … Continue reading →

Sestavljanka is not really a game, but it is an educational program for children done by Suzy Soft. The game is a "put-together-picture" type of game with simple puzzles and picture collections. You can dress up dolls, make a fotorobot … Continue reading →

It was slightly beyond belief when this game turned up on Commodore Format’s powerpack. Sadly it signalled the end of another C64 company as the C64 slowly died. Beyond Belief had planned Shellshock to be released on their label, after … Continue reading →

Shutdown is a game which has recently come to light thanks to the guys over at the World of Spectrum and a entry on their website. Taken directly from the World of Spectrum entry, Dean Hickingbottom recalls… “This game was … Continue reading →

A surprise entry into the GTW64 archives thanks to the work of Fix, Bieno, Pugsy, Jazzcat Single Extreme Freedom was to be a strategic game developed by Alice Software Studio from between 1992 and 1994. It featured action and interactive … Continue reading →

Confirmed as released (thanks to Steven Flanagan) and can be found via Gamebase64: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=24659&d=18&h=0 http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=23582&d=18&h=0 Case closed!

This GTW title is an unfortunate title which never got released for all the wrong reasons. Simon Birrell was just finishing university at the time, and he completed a multiscreen Arkanoid clone called "Slideways". He sold it to Cascade, who … Continue reading →

Another title from Alter Developments before bigger things came along. Smash Out is a Pong clone which looks quite nice, and plays ok for a Pong clone. It is nothing spectacular, but it was never mean’t to be. This was … Continue reading →