Games That Weren't^®

A very obscure title, and one we knew very little about – though ‘Anonymous Contributor’ (referenced as ‘AC’ in the rest of the page) has helped to shed some great light on the title. Much of the information written below … Continue reading →

Witch Way is a C64 conversion of a rather rare Vic 20 game from CDS (from the same time period as Road Toad). Thanks to an archiver of the Vic 20 cartridge on the Denial Forum we can let you … Continue reading →

An intriguing title from CRL which we know little about on the C64 and doesn’t seem to have been released on any other platform. When GTW team member Alex Ross emailed the guys from CRL about this game, neither seemed … Continue reading →

Wizard War is a fantasy strategy game, designed and created by Lloyd Johnson with additional input from Jim Baen. The game was apprently released with an exclusive story written by Fred Saberhagen based on the game. You controlled an army … Continue reading →

Have you ever wondered why one game from the Wizardry-series is lacking from the C-64? Well I did, and it led me to a little research in that area. After checking release dates it seems that the Wizardry-series was released … Continue reading →

Wolf has been a game in the GTW archives for some time, only known for its Rob Hubbard tunes which have thought to be lost. We did a bit of research but could find no other games of this naming … Continue reading →

Wolfgrounds we believe is a text adventure game by the same people who were selling Exod (Another title we have just added to GTW). The game was sold on disk, but it seems that this is one that either didn’t … Continue reading →

Although released, GTW has been given a lead which suggests that Wolfman was actually that little bit more gruesome, with an animated version that seems to have never seen the light of day. The actual released version had static images … Continue reading →

As well as Superman – The Game, it seems that First Star Software had big plans to do more comic based titles afterwards. In an issue of Family Computing Magazine, it was reported that after the release of the Superman … Continue reading →

Well, as correctly noted to me recently by a GTW reader, why the hell haven’t we covered World Cup Carnival V1?? And why not indeed – with the original game mess of World Cup Carnival apparently half complete before the … Continue reading →

World Cup Football was advertised in Home Computer Weekly issue 85 (Well, briefly mentioned in an advert for other games) but was never released across its planned platforms of C64, Spectrum and Amstrad. We assume it was to be some … Continue reading →

The source of this next entry is interesting as it was mentioned in "Illegal" pirate fanzine as something seen at PC 1988 show (or so it seems) by SSD of Cosmos. World Darts was a game mostly known for its … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that was due out by the demo crew turned game development team – Ambush. This was to be an unofficial conversion of Worms by Team 17 (yet another one!) which we don’t believe has … Continue reading →

Mentioned in issue 1 of Zzap!64 in its adventure column, this Mastervision (Mastertronic) title (originally released by Carnell Software) was certainly due out for the C64 and was even advertised for American audiences (see scans). However, it never happened for … Continue reading →