Games That Weren't^®

Feels like yesterday that I put up a webpage on this game, promoting it as “coming soon”. In the days when I was doing C64 news as well as GTW as a side stream site. Now over 19 years on … Continue reading →

3 Days In Carpathia was originally thought to be a sequel to the popular Valkyrie 17 game by George Stone and The Ram Jam Corp. A text adventure, which was written using “The Biro” and featuring character set screens, livened … Continue reading →

4 Emelet was a really lovely looking Hungarian graphic text adventure that was being developed back in 2012. Great quality overall, but sadly seems to have been abandoned at this stage, with no further updates in almost 10 years at … Continue reading →

A point and click based adventure game in similar vein to the Lucasfilm series. Move around the locations and solve the puzzles. The game was confirmed to be heavily inspired by Day of The Tenticle by Lucasfilm. The game was … Continue reading →

A surprise entry into the archives which is thanks to its creator Keith Purkiss. This was a game that was being developed for Alternative Software in 1989 and was created whilst in between projects for Probe Software. According to Keith, … Continue reading →

A big thanks to Martin / Stadium 64 (http://s64.emuunlim.com/) for highlighting this interesting entry. 720 degrees was released in the UK by US Gold, and also in the USA by Mindscape a year later. Two completely different versions. However the … Continue reading →

7DShoot is a nice and simple football game, where you have a ball that comes across the screen and you have to time your connection with it to shoot it into the back of a net. The game was developed … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title possibly inspired by Super Smash Bros? This is a very early development that features Mario and Megaman that move around quite nicely, but that is about it at the moment. A very early proof … Continue reading →

A Review Zak and Maniac Mansion type adventure A.P.E.X stands for Advanced Prototype EXploration Unit, and is the beginning of a fair looking Operation Wolf clone. The preview features some average graphics and good music, and smoothly scrolls along. Although … Continue reading →

Another puzzler, and sadly another one without instructions. I’m not quite sure what this game is about, so maybe you can help give a better description? This fair looking puzzler was planned for release by CP Verlag back in 1993, … Continue reading →

Another poker game, with an element of women in it… After the dire Sam Fox Strip Poker game, companies still persisted to create a ultimate strip poker game. A bit after the C64’s commercial death, Martin Olsen attempted his own … Continue reading →

An exclusive to GTW which was uncovered on a disk by Jason Kelk in 2005. This is a really neat two part preview, with the main part featuring a nice sideway scrolling SEU with some nice (if pink..) graphics, and … Continue reading →

A little demo created for an Acid C64 party which was created in about 4 hours in a small tent, with various extras added. Its not a lot, it features a Commodore Symbol which shoots sperm type bullets at the … Continue reading →

Brought to my attention by Jason Kelk, AD Infinitum is a early version of W.A.R which was released by Martech in 1986. You may wonder what a game like this is doing in the GTW archives, but you will notice … Continue reading →

A little puzzle game which was planned for the popular German games magazine, Magic Disk. This preview features 5 levels of puzzle shuffling to represent the pictures supplied with the puzzle. This is by no means a new idea. A … Continue reading →

Dungeons and Dragons was a gaming phenomena that started in the 1970s when historical gaming enthusiasts, Gary Gygax created his own rules to tabletop battlefield gaming and focused it on a small group of heroes sneaking into a castle. The … Continue reading →

Aftermath recently surfaced to GTW thanks to Jason Whitener who kindly brought it to our attention. The game is a US based game that was programmed by Mark A. Dickenson, who was active on Qlink back in the day (and … Continue reading →

No doubt a working title, but Ah Type is pretty much as you would guess and is a clone of R-Type in very early stages. But even though it is early stages, what has been done so far is very … Continue reading →