Games That Weren't^®

Thanks for the heads up from Jazzcat – Super Pinball was a game that was mentioned in Danish Magazine IC RUN Nov/Dec 1988. It was briefly mentioned as being developed, from a newsletter from Starvision’s owner Ivan Sølvason. Sadly there … Continue reading →

Yet another obscure game, this time by an obscure company called “Mushroom”… Who I don’t think lasted particularly long. As you can guess, Super Scramble is a clone of Scramble and according to the review in Home Computer Weekly, it … Continue reading →

Yet another strange one for the vaults of GTW… Originally it wasn’t known about until TGM shed some light. Originally this game was known from a strange set of advert slogans which were used in Zzap issue 40 back in … 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 to be a Super Wonder Boy clone where you … Continue reading →

Another coin-op conversion by the arcade conversion masters, Elite. This was to be a conversion of the popular arcade game, and was an ambitious one to do at that. Sadly although mentioned (albeit briefly) in Commodore Format, the game never … Continue reading →

A very unknown GTW title which has only really come to light because of some documentation that came to light with proposals of a game for Empire on the Commodore 64 called Sword of Abbadon. All we know about the … Continue reading →

A short entry for what should have been a C64 game as well as PC and Amiga (with thanks to Allan Pinkerton for highlighting!). This SSI game saw release for various formats in 1989/1990 by Strategic Simulations Inc., but the … Continue reading →

Sword of Sodan was a hack and slash game that was released in 1989 on the Amiga, as well as the Sega Megadrive in 1990. It featured very large characters and did fairly well at the time. Reviewed in CVG, … Continue reading →

Sword of the Samurai was a strategy game set in 15th Century Japan, written for the PC in 1989 by Microprose Software. It was a fairly well recieved game, and some people had fond memories of it: http://www.links.net/dox/warez/games/microprose/samurai/ As you … Continue reading →

Another rather obscure title which we are struggling to find out anything about. This was mentioned at the end of a magazine in their “Next issue” slot. We need to try and find out which magazine in particular as we … Continue reading →

Swords and Sorcery was originally announced in 1984, as a revolutionary computer role-playing game, claimed by its designer Mike Simpson to be the first of its kind. It eventually did surface on the Spectrum and Amstrad, earning considerable critical acclaim, … Continue reading →

And so the list continues with yet more Hi-Tec games added into the archive. This time with “Sylvester and Tweety Pie” which was a platformer where you had to try and catch Tweety Pie and you could scale walls, but … Continue reading →

A short entry for a compilation tape that was advertised by Swedish magazine Allt om Hemdatorer (All about Home Computers) in 1984. Thanks to an anonymous contributor, the ad translates as follows: Already today you can buy TOMORROW’S COMPUTER MAGAZINE … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for a title which is listed on Wikipedia as having a sequel due, but was never to be. System 15000 was a game from 1984 and released by Craig Communications by a development team called A.V.S. … Continue reading →

This was thought to be a lost game, but we have been informed that a release was made. http://s64.emuunlim.com/gameinfos/system8/system8.htm This entry as a result will be removed in the future. Case closed!