Games That Weren't^®

Yup, you guessed it!… another Beyond Belief title, this time brought to our attention by Marco Das, who found a little advert from Beyond Belief stating about the game’s up and coming release. Sadly we only know of a name, … Continue reading →

Ok, a bit of a gap here with this one at present, but another title in the archive to be preserved at least as a memory for the time being. This is another game for Mastertronic which had graphics by … Continue reading →

Compute!’s Gazette (May 1990) ran a news piece on this possible baseball game from arcade specialists Data East. Bo was a superstar in the US, famous for playing both American Football and Major League baseball during his career as well … Continue reading →

This game was announced in an issue of Home Computer Weekly back in 1985 and was to be sponsored by Sir Bobby Charlton. It was promised that the game was to be very accurate and also featured input from Sir … Continue reading →

The Bod Squad was a great little budget platformer released late into the C64’s life back in 1992 by Zeppelin Games. The game had you controlling a cute green blob which had to go around various locations, including the Pyramids. … Continue reading →

Many of you may remember the very cool Bomberman clone that appeared in the early days of Protovision, in the shape of Bomb Mania. Not only was it a great little game, but it also supported up to 4 players … Continue reading →

Bomber-clot was only ever briefly mentioned in the pages of various fanzines of the time. This was to be a game based on Bomberman, but that is about all we can say about the game at present until we get … Continue reading →

Another game from Mike Berry, this time a title briefly being developed we assume towards the end of the C64’s commercial life. Dynablaster/Bomberman around 1992 was pretty huge in popularity, and a C64 conversion was due, but never surfaced. There … Continue reading →

Not to be confused with the game of the same name that Protovision released (We think?) This may have got dropped/renamed fairly early on due the name clash. Or are we completely wrong, and was this infact when a different … Continue reading →

A very short entry for the GTW64 archives, and to carry out a search for a Bombuzal editor which was sent out to various developers such as Jeff Minter, Andrew Braybrook, who were invited to create levels for Imageworks’ Bombuzal. … Continue reading →

Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Boston Educational Computing, Inc, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog. These were Commodore 64 titles … Continue reading →

A working title, but a Bolderdash Clone was indeed in production with graphics being carefully pixelled by Shaun Pearson. Code was being done by Simon (Uzzy) Collis of Entropy. What can be said about the game, apart from that interest … Continue reading →

Our next title comes from an advert which actually advertises about 2 other titles which never saw the light of day, Sabian Island and Solar Warrior. Bounce is mainly described in the advert as an arcade adventure on the planet … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title which was written by Patricia Curtis, and was snapped up in the end by Microprose. Before that, Patricia was touting the game around to several publishers. All we know so far was that the … Continue reading →