Games That Weren't^®

Not the most original game here… a blatant clone of the classic "Star Paws", where you control a space man who has to protect his crop of vegetables from a mass of alien lifeform. No space turkeys to chase, but … Continue reading →

Yet another title found in 2004 by Triad, and another game by Dirk Conrad… this time a futuristic Archon style game with space ships. This is a complete and very nice strategy game which strangely has never been released as … Continue reading →

Accelerated Software released a number of titles on the C64 back in 1984, but their advertised Space Wars game was one which never quite made it, or so it seemed. Was it possibly due to the games market crash at … Continue reading →

A wonderful and surprising finding to enter the GTW64 archives, thanks to the efforts of Genesis Project in late February 2021. Splish Splash is a previously unknown game that was intended for release on the Mastertronic budget label back in … Continue reading →

Squad One was a game that was produced by a crew called Groovy Bits back in 1989, first heard about thanks to a magazine article in Datormagazinet Issue #4/1989 (Released in March) in Sweden which interviewed the team about a … Continue reading →

Star of Africa is a game which was being produced back in 1994 by Mindeye. It is a game which is apparently based on a famous Finnish board game “Afrikan Tähti” from 1951. It was later translated to German and … Continue reading →

A lot of you will remember seeing this game on the ZZap64 magazine covertape one issue… but it wasn’t specially designed for the magazine…. It was originally programmed for Ocean, but Ocean didn’t like the game as they felt it … Continue reading →

Starburst may have actually seen a release, but in very limited numbers. The game was offered for sale as part of a GEMS compilation pack by Digital Dynamite. An advert was listed in Issue 61 of Zzap, with a review … Continue reading →

Back in the 1980’s, Atarisoft were doing official conversions for the Commodore 64. Stargate was one of them! We learn of this conversion thanks to Mat Allen who has documented the conversion briefly in Digital Press. It was suggested that … Continue reading →

Thanks to Scott Julian, GTW is proud to present another game saved from oblivion in the shape and form of Starsat. An Australian RPG style game, fully completed, but sadly never released. I’m not too sure of the story behind … Continue reading →

A great little finding which has come to GTW thanks to Roberto Nicoletti. Steel Robot was produced by Italian Simone Balestra who programmed Clik Clak for Idea Software in the early 90’s. It was the result of a conversation with … Continue reading →

An entry for a title which we knew was sold on tape, but there seemed to be no evidence that a disk version was ever sold. The tape version of this Polish game is completely different to the disk version, … Continue reading →

Puzzle games are quite abundant in GTW64, and Stratagos is now about to add to the tally – a puzzler by Andrew Rodger. Stratagos may have actually seen a release, but in very limited numbers. The game was offered for … Continue reading →

A game once released on the cover of Zzap 64 back in the day, a cool galaxian type game by the creators of Orcus and possibly using some of its sprites. Haydn said this about the game… "Me, Mike Ager … Continue reading →

Up next is what we originally believed to be a GTW title thanks to Jason Kelk who highlighted it from a personal website, and which we don’t think has been spotted just yet until now. The game is your typical … Continue reading →

An interesting title for our next GTW entry, which is an early prototype or version of Bath Time that was released in 1984 by PSS (Personal Software Services) and is a fairly well known game on the C64. But at … Continue reading →

A quick entry into the GTW64 archives thanks to Csaba Virag, which is an Hungarian language text-adventure game called Szigethy Quest. The game was written by Wörösoft, and was in the legacy of Hungarian based thrash style text games like “Suli” … Continue reading →