Things On Strings
Not a lot is really sadly known about this game, even if it bore any resembalance to Thing On A Spring!… This is a title which was first mentioned to GTW by Martin Holland before he passed away. The game … Continue reading
Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Not a lot is really sadly known about this game, even if it bore any resembalance to Thing On A Spring!… This is a title which was first mentioned to GTW by Martin Holland before he passed away. The game … Continue reading
Listed in ACE magazine as a Firebird re-release from Ariolasoft, we never actually even saw the original game either. So was it that Think! only got a Spectrum release, and ACE got the C64 format listing as incorrect? Not sure … 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 of the other trains from the popular series. However, news has recently surfaced on the … Continue reading
The final part of the Wally games series, to round things off and complete what was a fantastic series of games pre-Dizzy era. This time the Wally family were off on holiday, but become stranded on a desert island. The … Continue reading
Yet another Thunderbirds game was in production you may be surprised to learn, and we have learned about the game thanks to Jayenne Montana, who tells us that the game was in the advance planning stages before it was cancelled … Continue reading
Some of you may have wondered in the past if Beyond The Ice Palace was meant to have been a Thundercats game. Certainly the main character looks the part, albeit with blond hair – so it was fairly plausable. Well … Continue reading
No we’re not mad – but it seems that Elite had planned 3 Thundercats games to be released in 1988. The first in the series was Gargoyle Games’ Thundercats – The Lost Eye of Thundera. The second eventually turned into … Continue reading
Platforms: ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 Over the years we have figured out at GTW64 about the connection between Thundercats and the unreleased Wolf by Gargoyle Games – as well as Bombjack 2 and Beyond the Ice Palace originally intended … Continue reading
Another of the unreleased 22 games which one day we hope to track down and bring to you, like Codemasters should have done a long time ago. Nothing is known of the actual game, or what it was about. An … Continue reading
Mentioned at the end of the first game, Tiger Road 2 was of course the sequel to the not too bad Capcom game. The C64 conversion of the original was good for rose tinted reasons (I loved it!) – comparing … Continue reading
1993 Codemasters Platform: Amiga Many of you growing up with Codemaster’s 8-bit budget games may remember a quirky title called Tilt, where you control a 3D maze and rotate it in various directions to guide a ball to an exit … Continue reading
The year is 2047 and you have been summoned to the Historisat satellite which is orbiting the Earth. As the game starts that is all you know but you will soon discover that a scientist has seen the future and … Continue reading
1977 Atari Platform: Arcade As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are gradually adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus content to share with you. The book contains a … Continue reading
1987 Keypunch Software Platforms: Atari ST, Commodore 64, Atari 400/800, Apple II and PC A very short entry for a title that was advertised within the manual of Aliants at the very end. Time Capsule was listed as “Coming Soon” … Continue reading
A very short entry for a title that was advertised within the manual of Aliants at the very end. Time Capsule was listed as “Coming Soon” and was a strategy action game. Nothing else is known at this stage, and … Continue reading
Time Fighter was one of two games that was to be released by a Danish company called “Future Games Development” in the Autumn of 1988. Sadly it was never to be, but thanks to a search by contributor Mads, we … Continue reading
1986 Incentive Software Platform: Dragon 32 In our very first Dragon 32 entry into the archives, we take a look at what seems to be a game based on the famous Doctor Who series, at least in places when you … Continue reading
Yes, Time Scanner was actually released on the C64, and many of you can claim to own it. But how many of you can claim to own the version that should have been? Or should we say “versions”? In July … Continue reading
1995 Psygnosis Platform: PC Just over ten years after its original release on the ZX Spectrum, Psygnosis planned to release an update to the classic adventure game for PC users back in 1995. The gameplay would consist of hand-to-hand combat, … Continue reading
Destiny Software was a short-lived publisher active in 1988. Their demise has already produced one GTW, The Bobby Yazz Show, but the game that was planned to be their first release is another. Titan Find was described in issue 32 … Continue reading
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