A quick entry of another Rocky Horror show game which CRL were planning to release, which was to be written up as a (slightly different?) story by Richard O’Brien and then converted to a game. This was following on from … Continue reading →
A quick entry for a title which was to be an Electronic Novel for Broderbund and Synapse. Where most of the planned titles were released and coded by Joe Viera (http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php?a=5&f=1&id=1963&d=18&h=0), the rest of them for some reason never quite … Continue reading →
Text adventure from Kayde who went into administration at the 26th August 1983. Did Spectrum releases, tried to do C64 and Vic 20 ones, which never seemed to surface. The game in the advert (Two adverts were submitted by Peter … Continue reading →
When it comes to RPG’s one of the obstacles computer games have always had to overcome is how to proficiently transfer the unlimited experience of playing a pen and paper RPG, such as Dungeons and Dragons, to a computer, especially … Continue reading →
A very quick entry for a title which may well be vapourware, but was briefly mentioned in the news pages of Zzap Italia back in 1987. After the massive success of The Sentinel, it would have been no surprise had … Continue reading →
Advertised a lot in the magazines and created by Thalion/Grandslam, The Seven Gates Of Jambala is best described as a clone of Son Son II on the PC Engine, and not Super Mario :). The game was released on the … Continue reading →
A short entry for a title which has very likely been released, but has yet to be preserved. Can you help us find it? Flagged up by contributor Lenny Bronstein, the game was reviewed in Ahoy magazine, complete with screenshots. … Continue reading →
Mentioned in issue June 1986 of Commodore User, this was a game mentioned as coming soon along with 3 Days in Carpathia. It was described as a sience fiction saga and would have been written in The Biro like with … Continue reading →
A short entry for a title that may or may not have ever been released. This title was flagged up by Mat Allen. This was an educational title that was to be released by Commodore on cartridge, and supporting the … Continue reading →
Thanks to Grzegorz Antosiewicz for the heads up about a great post on Team 17’s The Speris Legacy, showing differences between early demos and the final game. Although it isn’t an unreleased game, we try sometimes on GTW to showcase … Continue reading →
Contributor Mathew Chakko flagged up that “The Sporting News Baseball” game by Epyx Software in 1988 was advertised with a panel area that had a number of differences compared to the final game. Here it is: Now compare to the … Continue reading →
A very quick entry to confirm a title which was on the rumour list for sometime for the C64GS. Thanks to coder Neil Harding, we can confirm that there was to be an improved cartridge edition of The Spy Who … Continue reading →
A short entry now for a title highlighted to us by Baracuda and which he had compiled as part of a James Hastings-Trew slideshow in 2023. James had produced a loading screen for a title called The Stock Exchange, which … Continue reading →
Another game which was said to be released from Kele Line in 1987 (Mentioned in Soft, #1, January/February 1987, pg. 10). It is another title from Kele Line which we know little about, but we can guess what happened to … Continue reading →
Text adventure from Kayde who went into administration at the 26th August 1983. Did Spectrum releases, tried to do C64 and Vic 20 ones, which never seemed to surface (or did they? – see below). The game in the advert … Continue reading →
A quick entry to cover part of a series of games which DK’Tronics were looking to release in late 1984, early 1985. A news item in the December 1984 edition of Personal Computer Games suggested that following on from a … Continue reading →
This game was the satire of British political life in the guise of a parody of The Hobbit. It is rumoured that this game was unreleased because of poor sales of the game Denis Through the Drinking Glass by the … Continue reading →
In Commodore User April 1988, a news item was printed which tells us that Robtek (Who did various bits of hardware in the day) had an arrangement with an American organisation called Key-punch, where they would get 3 film licences … Continue reading →
The Tripods was to be a graphic adventure game based on the John Christopher novels / BBC TV adaption, featuring creatures which look like something out of War of the Worlds. The adverts mentioned that the game would promise something … Continue reading →
The War Of The Dragon was to be an Hungarian developed game back in 1989, which was based on a book written by Miklós Tihor and Zsolt Mazán. The book was published in 1989 by LSI and the guys wanted … Continue reading →
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