Games That Weren't^®

Advertised in many magazines, this was a title being sold by Anik Microsystems… however only two Anik games exist and seem to have been released on the C64. The advert describes the game as follows: “Could it be the final … Continue reading →

An Italian title which was released, but is currently missing and yet to be preserved, and highlighted thanks to an article by quattrobit.blogspot.com. La Casa was the product of a Marco Pesce, and featured a neat two-player split-screen window with … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that was due out by the demo crew turned game development team – Ambush . More details on them can be found at https://csdb.dk/group/?id=768 The game was described in an issue of Commodore Tribune … Continue reading →

This is a series of games which were being released by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd back in 1984 time. Occasionally the games surface on Ebay, and a selection of the games can be found on Gamebase. But sadly these are still … Continue reading →

Could this have been Rob Hubbard’s final C64 swansong?… or is this just vapourware?… A few questions for our next entry, which is based on a popular basketball rivalry. This game was first released on the PC, and then later … Continue reading →

Lazer Cycle was a tron clone that was written for the BBC Micro by System 3. For years it has been suggested that C64 version was in production.   It was confirmed however in 2015 by Jazzcat and Mark Cale … Continue reading →

Thanks to contributor Nemo for bringing this to our attention, but something that possibly isn’t a GTW64, but there is possibly some interesting interface software and ideas that could be useful to preserve. Back in the early 90’s, a German … Continue reading →

We don’t know much about this game, but apparently a C64 version was being done anyway. The Amiga version is in fact missing also, so was it a case of the company going bust? A little more is learnt about … Continue reading →

A quick entry for a graphical text adventure that was due out by Rihannon Software, where they were intending to put out an entire series of games with different themes by creators Elisabeth Stott and Lucy Ewell. Two titles which … Continue reading →

Based on the film. Pretty poor on other platforms, and the C64 may well have followed their downfalls. Some scenes had you controlling yourself in cyberspace flying past obstacles etc. The rest of the game was a sub-standard platform game … Continue reading →

A short entry for now of what we believe may have been a working title (or not quite remembered correctly by Peter Kaminski). Whilst talking about Pyramid of Time, Peter recalled a title that Russell Lieblich was working on around … Continue reading →

A small entry thanks to Peter Weighill, who highlighted this advert (see gallery) in Your Computer Nov 1984 on page 215 & Dec 1984 on page 58 for Learning and Training Systems. In the advert, they have 3 educational games … Continue reading →

A brief new entry which we kind of missed before – as the coder Mario Knezovic had mentioned it in one of his previous creator speaks for Seven Gates of Jambala. At the same time as working on that C64 … Continue reading →

Legend was a rather nifty RPG released by Mindscape back in 1991 which has gone down as one of the best RPG’s on the Amiga. Originally though it was due to be released by Mirrorsoft before their collapse, and also … Continue reading →

A book and adventure combo which originally got a release on the Spectrum platform and can be found in the WOS archives at http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006571 The game is a simple text adventure that was fairly well recived on the Spectrum, but … Continue reading →

This will be a quick entry, as we know nothing about Legend of Fairghad apart from the fact that it was meant to be an adventure game. There seems to be no other version in existance and information is almost … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for a title which may well be vapourware, but was briefly mentioned in the news pages of Zzap Italia back in 1987. Legendary Wings was a famous 1986 Capcom arcade which strangely never got a conversion, … Continue reading →