Games That Weren't^®

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 →

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 →