Games That Weren't^®

Bobby Bounce Back, was being done for Dynamic Developments, a relatively unknown company – according to Wayne Billingham. The game was being written by Chris Walsh (Creator of Murder! on the C64) and Wayne Billingham (Alien Storm and Mega Twins … Continue reading →

Body Slam was a SEGA arcade game featuring female wrestlers doing battle in the ring. It was fairly obscure, not not obscure enough though for Firebird to take up the licence it seems, with Software Creations behind the conversion work. … Continue reading →

Andreas Mettler was a fairly prolific developer in Germany in the mid 80’s, doing a large number of PD games, as well as a few commercial ones too. With the amount of games produced, you’d understand how it might be … Continue reading →

A good looking boxing sim from the Italian gaming giants “Simulmondo”. Apart from the standard sideways boxing we are all accustomed to with most C64 boxing games, you could face front ways to attack your opponent using a variety of … Continue reading →

Boxing Manager was a fairly standard management affair which was released on the C64 back around 1987/88 and which seemed to be popular enough for the management mad company D&H to release a sequel. However, although mention in various adverts, … Continue reading →

Brainway is a simple puzzler, very similar to titles such as Sensitive, but where you must destroy all the tiles with purple circles on and without getting stuck or falling. It’s a nice twist on games like Sensitive, and was … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a title which was closed as quickly as it was added. Breaker was a cool breakout clone produced for Radarsoft in 1987, but what seems to be a title which is complete and fully released, … Continue reading →

Bronnoyquest was a jokey adventure game which was written by Ruben Spaans (aka Scroll/Megastyle). Ruben explains more about the game and how it came about: "It started out as a very silly adventure game made by me and a friend … Continue reading →

A title which many of you may not have heard of, considering publicity on the game was pretty much never done for the C64 for this game. Bugs Bunny is as special as Daffy Duck, as they are both from … Continue reading →

Thanks to Csaba Virag, yet another obscure piece of Commodore 64 software has now been saved with the recovery of Bundesliga 2 . This is a Football management software written by Werner Krahe in 1986. Werner is credited in a … Continue reading →

Get your magnified glass out, as our next entry is one which you may think is a released game, but it isn’t quite – unless you look very closely! Captain Fizz was a cool 2 player split screen Gauntlet-style game … Continue reading →

A game by Frank Herrman, which was to be sold by the Tronic Verlag (those who published the ‘ASM’), but it was never seen. It was judged as a very good and playable game. The description given in the magazine … Continue reading →

Castle Boy may have actually seen a release, but in very limited numbers. The game was offered for sale as part of a GEMS compilation pack by Digital Dynamite. An advert was listed in Issue 61 of Zzap, with a … Continue reading →

An interesting title only really known about due to its very brief inclusion on Commercial Breaks (A BBC documentary from 1984 which documented on Imagine and Ocean, and saw the amazing collapse of Imagine as it happened – grab it … Continue reading →

Thanks to Gaz Spence, we can confirm that this game was released by CP Verlag in 1993… http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=1317&d=18&h=0 Case closed!

You all remember Reflective Designs and the various games produced and coded by Duncan Kershaw for Players, Zeppelin and Codemasters? Well, we all have to start out somewhere – and Duncan first got into coding on the C64 by programming … Continue reading →

You may be screaming at me for putting this game in the archives, but this is no normal version of Chiller. The game basically was originally withdrawn due to the connection to Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video at the time … Continue reading →

Another early build entry into the GTW64 archives, and this time with an early and classic Ocean title – Chinese Juggler. This earlier build was highlighted by contributor Csaba Virag, who spotted that this version had a different start up … Continue reading →