Games That Weren't^®

Kljuc (aka “The Key” in English) we believe is more of an educational program for children done by Suzy Soft. This game though is a rather simple Manic Miner style of game, with monocrome graphics – it’s got a nice … Continue reading →

A quick entry into GTW64 archives that was recovered by Csaba Virag in early 2022. This is a simple SEUCK effort that was to be sold commercially in Hungary back in the late 1980s by Emix Software, who had very … Continue reading →

Text adventure from Kayde who went into administration at the 26th August 1983. Did Spectrum releases, tried to do C64 and Vic 20 ones, which never seemed to surface. The game in the advert (Two adverts were submitted by Peter … Continue reading →

Soon after the success of getting Lethal released under the Alternative label, Neil Kendall got to work on a quick sequel to the game. For reasons currently unknown to GTW, the game never got released and was left sat on … Continue reading →

A short entry for something flagged up to us by Marco van Vlaanderen, who found this very obscure and rare RadarSoft title on an old tape. This was developed by Cees Kramer back in 1984, one of the founders of … Continue reading →

Thanks to contributor Aki Sivula, we learnt about a recently recovered game by a chap called Pasi Hytonen – who after starting off by developing games for the Oric, before then moving onto the C64. His first project was a … Continue reading →

The thing I love about working on Games That Weren’t, is that even after over 20 years – we still get the odd surprise surface. Our next entry is a title by an author who created a VIC-20 game which … Continue reading →

Lunar Rescue has been missing for some time and has been missing from Gamebase 64 for some time. It was advertised by Mr Chip in around 1983/84 time and featured in an advert in Home Computing Weekly. A game of … Continue reading →

A year before the release of Crazy Comets, Simon and his friend John coded their own conversion of the arcade ‘Mad Planets’. It wasn’t brilliant compared with the two later versions lacking music by Rob Hubbard, but a reasonable attempt … Continue reading →

Game confirmed as released and now found by Genesis Project at http://csdb.dk/release/?id=151054 Case closed! :)

A new GTW finding thanks to the preservation efforts of GTW regular Csaba Virag. This is an obscure German game which was created in 1986 by Michael Wuest, who may have been the same developer who went on to code … Continue reading →

Once a surprise finding on the personal disks of Cory Kin. Make My Day is a diagonal scrolling western game which was being produced by Compunet user “Gem“, who was in touch with Cory at the time and sent through … Continue reading →

A Hungarian title which has been found by Csaba Virag, and which is a very simple game based on the game Mill and which was part of a MicroCAD’90 programming competition held by the University of Miskolc, Hungary. The game … Continue reading →

Firstly… this is not the same as the Ocean version released version that came in around 1986/87… but Atarisoft were actually doing an official conversion themselves back in the early 80’s. We learn of this conversion thanks to Mat Allen … Continue reading →

A very quick entry, mainly as we don’t have much on it just yet. But Jason Kelk flags up to GTW that a 3rd Mastertronic Loader game was created but unused. Apparently Chris Young, who was on work experience at … Continue reading →

A quick entry, but this educational game was advertised early in 1984 in a few magazines as a list of games coming soon from Comm*Data / Channel Software. This title has been missing for so many years, but Allan Pinkerton … Continue reading →

A surprise finding thanks to the guys at Genesis Project (in particular Hedning, Six and Whisper), which is a very obscure text adventure game that was written in 1984 for Martin-Art. Previously the game was only known to exist for … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a title which may have been something advertised in early magazines. The game was to be released by Playsoft and seemed to be part of a series of 3 games in total which includes Infer, … Continue reading →