Games That Weren't^®

Game Hunter is yet another mysterious Anirog title which seems to have gone astray since some initial mentions in magazines and adverts. We’re not entirely sure at this point what the game was about, and there seems to be no … Continue reading →

A bizzarely named game which was reviewed very quickly by Peter Staaks back in 1997 in one of the main fanzines at the time. It was a pacman clone which had a preview released apparently and which Peter gave some … Continue reading →

Sadly not much is known about this particular game pack which was announced by Beyond Belief. We can only assume that it would have been a budget pack of 3 simple games, but we need someone to confirm this.Contact has … Continue reading →

Not much known about this pack i’m afraid, apart from that it was to contain games like Snakes and Ladders, and possibly other board games. We think there was some adverts for this compilation briefly, but we are needing confirmation … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for a title we know little about, but which was highlighted by contributor Hedning. This is a game which was meant to have surfaced on the cracking scene back in 1987 from a guy called Doctor … Continue reading →

Our next entry into the archive come thanks to Gareth Pitchford, who flagged up this currently missing homebrew text adventure game by Derek Doran. The game was advertised in Commodore User magazine back in 1986, but although their game Prime … Continue reading →

We all remember the superb Gaplus by Ash and Dave, which was very arcade like and did well in various magazines of the time. You may be interested to learn that Gaplus was infact a rescue job by Ash and … Continue reading →

Denton Designs are possibly one of the most famous developers for the C64, producing the excellent Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Shadowfire. As part of one of their later titles, Denton Designs were producing a interesting title called “Gargantuan”. This … Continue reading →

A possibly cock up by Commodore Format, or was Gauntlet 3 originally set to be a far more ambitious title that intended? Of course, we all know about the infamous tale of the C64 edition not seeing full release – … Continue reading →

In 2009, Hungarian musician Peter Nagy-Miklos (NecroPolo) – with the help of iAN CooG – released several previously unheard tunes. Included among them was all the music for an unfinished game known as “Geister”. Peter describes what happened: “My second … Continue reading →

After the first great puzzler, Demonware decided that a sequel was in order, and so the C64 version was put into planning… but how about production? We are not sure, but Peter Thierolf tells us that he remembers not much, … Continue reading →

We’re probably stretching things I know – but its been reported that there was a version of Gemini Wing in existance that had two players in total. Zzap 64 reported it a month before the game’s review and release, where … Continue reading →

Already we have a few entries in GTW which are Apex based games, and here is another one. Not too much to say at present, apart from that this was a game being developed around 3 years before Creatures in … Continue reading →

Steve Bak (author of the Cuthbert games as well as Hercules and C64 Ghostbusters 2) was one of the first Atari ST programmers, owning the UK’s first development kit and working on games before its official UK release. His 16-bit … Continue reading →