Games That Weren't^®

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 →

Smurfs is a game which was the creation of a then 15yr old Carl Muller, and was pitched to various companies, such as US Gold, Melbourne House and Firebird. Sadly US Gold and Firebird rejected Carl, but Melbourne House eventually … Continue reading →

Thanks to the great efforts of Peepo and Tom Roger Skauren, many disks have been preserved that used to belong to the late Gary Sabin – who wrote the US Gold loading music and handled mastering duties. The disks were … Continue reading →

A famous sequel to a famous series of games, Solar Jetman was released on the NES platform, and other 8-bit conversions were planned, including the C64 and Spectrum. A little news snippet was mentioned once in Zzap about the conversion … Continue reading →

Ok, so we’re cheating a little – but it is very possible that all of these games were released. So now we just need to make sure they get preserved. Sophisticated Games advertised in various magazines during the early 80’s … Continue reading →

A game being produced by R Pedersen, who developed a number of games which never made the light of day. The games were all made in MSDOS first, then ported easily over to the C64 and Apple machines. This game … Continue reading →

A title which we have somewhat overlooked until someone resurrected the forum post on Lemon 64… Space Talisman (Or Labyrinth as its also known) is an early version of Hero Of The Golden Talisman, which is quite a bit different, … Continue reading →

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 →