Games That Weren't^®

Another game, another title which was never really mentioned in the press – probably because this was a submission to a magazine, rather than a full commercial game it seems. This game was discovered on a disk in Darren Melbourne’s … Continue reading →

One of Carl Muller’s many unreleased C64 games before he did the likes of Speedball 2. Toccata is a simple shoot-em-up, which consists of a ship which shoots at stars before they get too big. Kind of like Mega Apocalypse … Continue reading →

Toxic is a neat little programmer from the late 90’s which was a Polish game by Kmeg/Albion. It’s very much in the style of Bobix, and originally a preview existed only which showed fairly early stages with little playability – … Continue reading →

While I was away doing exams and coursework in 2004, a few games suddenly surfaced out of nowhere, and Trac Troopa was one of the pleasant surprises to surface from an ex-C64 programmer’s work disk. Jon Williams is not to … Continue reading →

Our next entry into the GTW archives comes thanks to Francesco Milioni, which was due for release on a tape compilation to be released in Italy, but was too late due to the declining C64 market. Traffico is a revisited … Continue reading →

A game by Steve Collins of Herobotix and Badlands fame. Tran was fully completed apart from the music. Sadly when presented, Hewson rejected it, due to striking simularities to another title on their label. All this, even though it got … Continue reading →

A short entry for a simple BASIC puzzler that was actually due for release in 1985. The game was tidied up and released by Gruppo Editoriale Jackson/Super Commodore in 1990, but within the release were two earlier unreleased versions as … Continue reading →

Another long lost Alf Yngve game which has yet to see the light of day. This particular one was mentioned in Issue 44 of Commodore Format, when their infamous games explosion came about and many titles were presented as soon … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title which has been unearthed thanks to Csaba Virag, and a Tron clone which doesn’t seem to be within the archives (well, at least we couldn’t find it!). It’s quite a neat clone, and all … Continue reading →

Ok, so not quite finished for 2020 yet – I fibbed a bit! Many of you will have played the wonderful Barbarian 2 by Rob Stevens, and maybe even read the excellent feature with him in FREEZE64 about the game. … Continue reading →

Back in the 1980’s, Atarisoft were doing official conversions for the Commodore 64. Typo Attack was one of them! The game was originally released on the Atari 8-bit computer range and was an educational arcade game for adults and children. … Continue reading →

Another combination entry for what might possibly be just a hunt for titles that are yet to be preserved. Thanks to Allan Pinkerton, its been highlighted that a number of Unicorn Software educational titles are still at large. Check out … Continue reading →

This game involved flying an hot air balloon across a slow scrolling landscape, dropping sandbags on enemies. The game was in fact released on the Atari 400 around the time with the same name, and was ported over to the … Continue reading →

Our next game in the archives is an early title from Video Images, who did Exceleron for Commodore User magazine back in the day. It was a title that would make use of the SEUCK engine, which some companies back … Continue reading →

UXB is a great little finding that has been uncovered for the first time thanks to Wreg and released into GTW64. The game is complete and was produced by Jason Fox who went on to produce a few titles for … Continue reading →

Warriors is a rather Rastan looking game which was being produced back in 1988 by a group called Modern Arts for Rainbow Arts. You control a warrior character who jumps across platforms in a horizontal scrolling game. Best way to … Continue reading →

Warspite is a cool Shoot ’em up game, bit like Delta which was written by Phillip Ruston. The game was never commercially released for reasons unknown, though its quite a nice little shooter. Phil recently got in touch with GTW, … Continue reading →

A Hungarian title which has been found by Csaba Virag, and which is a simple strategy game written by Christian Szegedy (cSSc). Christian also coded the game Ural that was released in 1990 but didn’t do much else apart from … Continue reading →

Created by Steve Evans, famous for classics such as Guardian. This game was a very sly Commando clone, and as soon as Elite (who owned the rights to converting Commando) saw the game, they gained an injunction to stop it … Continue reading →