Games That Weren't^®

It is thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni and BloodyCactus for bringing this game to our attention, and which may have been floating around for quite some time under our noses. The Mermaid and the Crown was a graphical text adventure produced … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that has been recovered in late 2020 by Simon Quernhorst. A title that was found in a disk box with a bunch of old disks. It seems that The Reactor (Der Reaktor) was a … Continue reading →

This was once a short preview of a nice little Super Mario Bros clone, until recently when the full version was finished off for a UK magazine. Here it is! Though not as closely linked as Giana was, “The Run” … Continue reading →

The Slippery 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): "They are simple text adventure … Continue reading →

A short entry for what was a late C64 game that was aiming to save the machine commercially, by a team called Parallel Logic. The game was created in the 3D Construction Kit and reviewed in Commodore Format issue 44, … Continue reading →

Not to be confused with CRL’s officially planned release, which was also cancelled. This was to be a completely different War of the Worlds game, but thankfully is one which has been out there all along. When recently trawling through … Continue reading →

Many of you may remember this game from the later days of Zzap64, created by Kevin Murphy, whom originally tried to sell the game through mail order. Well, before that, Thrusterball was sent to various big games companies of the … Continue reading →

Thunder Hawk is a vertically scrolling shooter built by Steve Dunn, who did a number of games on the C64, including Call Me Psycho. The game has been around the web for a while now, listed as being an Atlantis … Continue reading →

A very big thanks to Mauricio Muñoz Lucero for highlighting this one for us. Tidemarsh is a game which has recently surfaced thanks to the author of Warhawk digging out his unreleased software whilst he develops the new Warhawk game … Continue reading →

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

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 similarities 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 →