Games That Weren't^®

The final part in the Gauntlet trilogy (on the Commodore 64 at least) was to be an isometric affair, owing more to Pacmania and 3D Ant Attack then the previous overhead offerings that were converted by Gremlin Graphics for U.S. … Continue reading →

An early game from the creator of Speedball 2 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Carl Muller. What is special about this game, is that it proclaims to be the first ever C64 game to use sprites in the borders, a … Continue reading →

This is in fact what would become Hard ‘N’ Heavy, the unofficial sequel to Giana Sisters. Well, it was actually once the OFFICIAL sequel to Giana before Nintendo had stepped in. Many of us learnt about the sequel in the … Continue reading →

The Commodore 64 has received many memorable games over the years, and none so much as The Great Giana Sisters, but for all the wrong reasons. Created by Armin Gessert, with graphics by Manfred Trenz back in 1987, Giana Sisters … Continue reading →

Another Codies game which came too late, this time coded by the man behind Bee 52, Nick Taylor. Or so it seems, as the game was actually released on the Amstrad and Spectrum platforms, the spectrum version complete with inlay … Continue reading →

A obscure title by Simon Birrell, creator of Strangeloop for Virgin Games. Essentially, this game stems from the ripping off of one of Simon’s own ideas which was "Slideways", also in GTW. Cascade ripped off the Slideways game and released … Continue reading →

Habitat was a glimpse into the future way back in 1987, and was to take the SCUMM engine of Maniac Mansion and push it into an online world. The game was to be multi-player based and used in conjunction with … Continue reading →

Fully titled “Hagar The Horrible”, the conversion of the popular comic strip character was pretty well done on the C64. Sure, it wasn’t the best ever platformer on the C64, but a good reasonable effort and a playable one at … Continue reading →

Not too much to say about this preview, apart from that its Hangman, and not really a good one at that. There is no hangman sprite to indicate how many lives you have, just a flashy little logo at the … Continue reading →

Hangman’s Hazard was being sold as a word game with a twist in a 1992 issue of RUN magazine from the US. The game was sold on disk, but it seems that this is one that didn’t sell that well. … Continue reading →

This game was confirmed as released under the name of Reactor II for CP Verlag/Magic Disk 64.  Thanks to Jan Schulze for the confirmation! Case closed for this entry – the full game you can download from here:  http://gamebase64.com/game.php?id=6243&d=18&h=0

Hell For Leather was a game being developed for Audiogenic by James Macdonald under his Psycodelic Software Developments label. It was the first game he had ever written, and was done to prove to someone at his local computer club … Continue reading →

Our next entry is a quick one as highlighted by contributor Sean O’Neill. It’s a title we’ve been aware of for some time, but just haven’t got round to adding it to the site. The game should have been released … Continue reading →

A quick entry for a game which was flagged up by Peter Weighill whilst doing some research. Hit and Run was a cricket game which was advertised in the likes of Your 64 and Commodore Computing International in 1984, and … Continue reading →

A very interesting entry in the GTW archives comes in the form of Hyperion 2. The game has been sitting on FTP’s for a while now, but has a story behind it and also helped uncover something rather useful for … Continue reading →

“I Can Remember” is another long lost educational game to add to the GTW archives, and another which we know little about at the moment. It is assumed from the title that it is a kind of memory based game … Continue reading →

Illusions was to be a Intellivision game conversion to the C64 by the Mattel Electronics France offices. It was scheduled, but apparently never worked on, though it was given an id of #7857 on diskette. The catalogue entry for the … Continue reading →