Games That Weren't^®

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 →

NOTE: This game is (c) Hanna Barbera, and is distributed freely without any profit as part of a digital preservation project. With thanks to David A Palmer productions. Yet another surprise addition to the archives, and one we had no … 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 →

For this game, we go back to when the C64 was dying out, or at least Commodore Format was, and there was a little spurt of new games coming from various sources. One such game was ‘Wilberforce’, which looked like … Continue reading →

Unreleased and unknown for 30 years until being released as part of FREEZE64’s Christmas Special for subscribers in late 2020. Winning Streak was a simple betting game that was written by Jonathan Temples, who is better known as the graphic … Continue reading →

One of the harder things to ascertain when investigating a potential GTW is sorting out those games that are simply ‘Missing in Action’ from the genuine ‘Games That Weren’t’. Wizard’s Dominion is one such game. A Dungeons & Dragon’s game … Continue reading →

Now for a start, we’re not 100% certain if this was intended for release on the actual Hi-tec label, as you will find out below. Wonderball has been floating around for a while and is a simple platform game with … Continue reading →