Games That Weren't^®

It seems this one almost went under and missed the GTW scanner. This was brought to the attention of GTW thanks to the Lemon 64 forum and a member asking about the whereabouts of the C64 version of this game. … Continue reading →

Ocean had a bucket load of titles in development at the time, and Snow Bros was one of them. This was going to be a conversion of the fairly popular arcade, which was a sort of clone of Bubble Bobble … Continue reading →

Yet another Beyond Belief game which was planned and mentioned in the interview with Jim Scott. Information is a bit scarce, as all we currently know is that the game was first being developed on the Amiga as a full … Continue reading →

A combined entry to highlight a large number of educational titles that are currently missing for the Commodore 64. These were found listed in a book called Software for Schools (1987-88) and published by R. R. Bowker. Bertrand/Atari Frog has … Continue reading →

Software House is a management game where you must manage a software house, buy in titles and sell them on for maximum profit. This particular Cult game was nothing spectacular, but well worthy of preserving anyway! The game exists on … Continue reading →

Another game which was promised at the end of the C64’s commercial life. As games ceased up,there was news of many more games coming our way. Solaris was one such title which was being created by C64 muscian Andrew (Drew) … Continue reading →

Yet another Beyond Belief game which was planned and mentioned in the interview with Jim Scott. Information is a bit scarce, and all we knew was that the game was to be a horizontally scrolling game like Rubicon/Hawkeye. Well, the … Continue reading →

We have to find this one!…. According to the game’s creator, this was heavily inspired by one of my favourite Vic 20 games of all time, Myraid by Rabbit Software. This was infact released on the C16 by Bug Byte, … Continue reading →

A huge hit on the MegaDrive and other SEGA systems. In the early 90’s, SEGA signed a deal with U.S. Gold to allow them to convert their titles to other computer systems, with titles such as E-Swat and Alien Storm … Continue reading →

Originally we didn’t know a great deal about this game, only that it would have been the sequel to the released game and featured more from the popular series. However, news has recently surfaced on the World of Spectrum about … Continue reading →

Sophistry is not to be confused with the other entry within GTW which was for Hewson and a Quix clone. CRL’s Sophistry game was to be a isometic 3D game in the style of Bobby Bearing, and recieved glowing reviews … Continue reading →

This was one of the first games to be released by newly set up team, Arcanum developments. This team consisted of Mark Kelly, his brother, Robert McGowan, Barry Leitch and Alan Mac. The game was being done for Hewson, and … Continue reading →

Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. Sorderon’s Shadow: The Legend of Elindor was a title by Nick Eatock and Simon Welland that was a sort of … Continue reading →

Potentially this was originally thought of as vaporware until we had received confirmation that it wasn’t. This was thanks to early adverts for Space Ace by Empire/Readysoft, which reported a C64 version as coming soon. Additionally though in recent times … Continue reading →