Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. Valley Of The Source was to be the follow-up to Twin Kingdom Valley and was due for release around March … Continue reading →
A short entry for what was an Italian graphic text adventure which is currently at large. The same developer has a number of other creations already in Gamebase, but this this title and one other has yet to be found. … Continue reading →
Back in the 1980’s, Atarisoft were doing official conversions for the Commodore 64. Vanguard was one of them! We learn of this conversion thanks to Mat Allen who has documented the conversion briefly in Digital Press. We hope to learn … Continue reading →
1983 Atarisoft Platform: Commodore Vic 20 A short entry which we will try and flesh out soon. Vanguard was listed as being due for release for the Commodore Vic 20 over at https://www.digitpress.com/faq/atarisoft.htm – though was cancelled either due to … Continue reading →
A short post to highlight two Amiga titles that never were (thanks to Karl Kuras) which were mentioned in the pages of Commodore User magazine. The Legend of Billy Boulder This title was actually due for release on PC and … Continue reading →
This may or may not be an actual GTW, but we’ll include it for now until we get further confirmation of whether this was really a game or just a joke by the developer. Thanks to contributor Dave King, within … Continue reading →
Advertised in many magazines, this was a title being sold by Anik Microsystems… however only two Anik games exist and seem to have been released on the C64. The advert describes the game as follows: "You’ll hand it to this … Continue reading →
The Vengenance of Zeno is a bit of an oddity for GTW, but a perfect addition to the archive. The game is reported as missing on Gamebase 64, and the only recollection seems to be from an Anirog advert which … Continue reading →
When the C64 was dying out commercially, Jon Wells was trying to flood the C64 with new releases. One of his ideas was to take the entire back catalogue of Clive Wilson adventure titles and update them with new graphics, … Continue reading →
A big thanks to Carlos who recently flagged up this game which some light was shed at the Spanish retro-party RetroMatrid in 2010. Viaje al Centro de la Tierra (Journey to the Center of the Earth) was a sort of … Continue reading →
I’m not completely sure why we haven’t looked into this one before, but it was flagged up recently on the Lemon 64 forum about if a UK release of Victory Road ever existed. So did it? Well between 1987 and … Continue reading →
Another quickie – whilst hunting through some disks from Andrew Morris, we found a sprite set which contained the planets from Mega Apocalypse, and a very simple ship. Additionally there were sprites with Video Images Software text made out of … Continue reading →
The unknown Vietnam game was another title which never was from Orpheus Software, and was a wargame that tried to cash in on the many Vietnam films that were around at the time. It apparently may have come from Tim … Continue reading →
Vietnam Gunboat was a title listed in the Screen Test Budgets section of ACE magazine (Issue 20, May 1989 – Page 66) as coming soon. The game however never surfaced and doesn’t seem to have come out on any other … Continue reading →
This was to be a conversion of the Irem arcade back around 1988 time by FIL/Sales Curve. Commodore User, September 1988 issue mentioned that French software company FIL had got the licence. UK representatives of FIL were The Sales Curve … Continue reading →
Yet another football game for the C64, though an unreleased one luckily for you who are sick of all the poor footy games to grace the C64 (excluding just a few). Screen 7 announced the signing of Vinnie Jones (who … Continue reading →
Virgin Atlantic Challenge was to be an arcade game based on Richard Branson’s attempt to break the transatlantic speed record in a boat. So, not the same game which was released later on with the rather cool Rob Hubbard tune. … Continue reading →
Virocop is an often overlooked classic Amiga game by Graftgold that was released in 1995, a spiritual sequel of sorts to the likes of Quazatron and Magnetron that you may have missed. If you did, then check it out! Thanks … Continue reading →
Time to put this one out of its misery.. maybe? Virus has been one of the mysterious mysteries in the lost gaming world on the C64, the subject of rumour and also April fool jokes! It is a 3D game … Continue reading →
Yet another Taskset GTW has come to light thanks to the stearling work of Paul Drury and his discussions with the Taskset crew. The game ‘Vulcan’ originally started off as an arcade board called ‘Hunter’ which was being done by … Continue reading →
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