Gauntlet 3 V1
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
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Gauntlet DS
2008 Backbone Entertainment Platform: Nintendo DS As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus DLC content to share with you. Within the book is … Continue reading
Gazza 2
1990 Active Minds Platform: Amstrad GX4000 As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus DLC content to share with you. Within the book is … Continue reading
Geister
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
Gem-X 2
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
Gemini Wing V1
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
Genesis
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
Genesis
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
Genjin Show – Tobidase! VB Genjin
1995 Hudson Soft Platform: Nintendo Virtual Boy Bonk was a very popular character from Hudson Soft that featured in a number of popular platforming titles, especially on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16. The first title for the game was known as PC … Continue reading
Geometry
1992 Thalamus Platform: Commodore Amiga Also known as: Quedex 2 – The Geometry Challenge Geometry was a working title for a new puzzler game that was due for release from Thalamus back in late 1992 on the Commodore Amiga. What … Continue reading
George A Sisyphean Drama
1992 Marcus Hamilton Platforms: Commodore Amiga, PC and Atari ST A bizarre name for an intriguing puzzle game that was due for release on the Amiga, ST and PC platforms back in 1992. Not much is currently known about the … Continue reading
Germ Alert
Yet another game from Visualize which sadly got caught up in the C64’s commercial death. This was planned to be one of the C64’s many saviours in the Games Explosion of 1994 in the UK, after all seemed to be … Continue reading
Get Dexter
"Get Dexter" or "Crafton & Xunk" was an isometric 3D game popular on the Amstrad, published by Infogrames. According to the White Wizard’s review of Mandragore (a role-playing game by Infogrames) on page 70 of issue 16 of Zzap 64, … Continue reading
Ghost Hunters
1987 Codemasters Platforms: Atari 800 and MSX A very short entry for an Atari 800 and MSX conversion of Ghost Hunters that is currently missing. The question is, were either ever started? The game was released on the Commodore 64 … Continue reading
Ghostbusters 2021
A short entry for now, for what was a very promising Ghostbusters tribute on the C64 in PETSCII format by Dave Izon. The object of the game was to capture 2 types of ghosts, one with ghost traps and the … Continue reading
Ghouls ‘N’ Ghosts (Amiga/ST) early differences
Getting into a bit of a pattern at the moment of doing posts on differences between early previews and final releases of games on a Friday. I’ll see if I can keep it up! Today we take a look at … Continue reading
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Giana Strikes Back
Giana Strikes Back was to be a game that had a brief mention in various fanzines as being developed by Peter Staaks (Graphics) and Frits Koudijs (Code). A few months later it was decided that the game was never gonna … Continue reading
Gigaball
1987 Starvision Platform: Commodore Amiga A very short entry now for a title called Gigaball that was due for release by short-lived Danish software house – Starvision. The game was mentioned by founder Sören Grönbech in a feature in SOFT … Continue reading
Gladiator
Another entry we sadly don’t know too much about, and one we need to question Haydn about slightly to find out some background to it. We have no ideas of publisher or anything like how the game was shaping up. … Continue reading
Global Conquest
Advertised in Compute! Vol.7 issue 1, Global Quest was due for release on both Atari and Commodore 64 platforms, and was a strategy war game by California Dreamers in 1984. Sadly the game is currently at large, and we’re not … Continue reading
