Games That Weren't^®

Back in the 1980’s, Atarisoft were doing official arcade conversions for the Commodore 64. Stargate was one of them, and we learn of this conversion thanks to Mat Allen who has documented the conversion briefly in Digital Press. Phobos/Ready64 found … 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 →

The collection of earlier versions of Activision/Electric Dreams games seems to be growing, and we have another here with Super Hang-On, which was flagged up on the Lemon64 forums by The Wolf. Out in the wild are two versions of … 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 →

A short entry to GTW64 which has been highlighted thanks to Richard Bayliss. This very strange entry is currently attributed to being a release by Zeppelin Games in 1992, but there is no evidence that it has seen a proper … Continue reading →

The Bandage was a Quill based adventure game which was written by Ruben Spaans in his early days. Ruben sheds more light on the game here (talking about the collection of adventure games he created): "Just saw "The Bandage" in … Continue reading →

Wow… well, there were always a few questions about the existance of some Ultimate games on the C64, but this one was never really mentioned as a possible conversion. But infact this rare Speccy game was being transferred over to … Continue reading →

A slightly naughty attempt at cashing in on the Douglas Adams title of the same name, Supersoft didn’t get very far when they were issued with a lawsuit to prevent a proper release of the game. Eventually, the game had … Continue reading →

A recent recovery in 2021 and lost for well over 30 years, The Mad Scientist was sent to several major software houses at the time in the 80’s, such as Kele Line – who seemed most likely to publish. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →