Games That Weren't^®

A very promising looking puzzler game, which is sort of a mixture of Sokoban and Pipemania with electrical wiring. It is playable, with some cool title presentation – though the options and screen designer areas are disabled at present. This … Continue reading →

Darius + was advertised in various magazines, and was advertised by The Edge for all machines, including the Commodore 64. The game is a conversion of a popular arcade by Taito, and eventually did surface on the Amiga, Spectrum (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001254) … Continue reading →

A new finding for GTW, and a neat looking preview of a sooped up Defender style of game. Deadhead was done as a small project whilst Wayne and Anthony were working on another project. Wayne originally posted all of his … Continue reading →

Now this is a GTW that has gone down in history as one of the most eagerly wanted games to appear on the C64 in some form. For many years we have been taunted with the fantastic screenshots from Zzap … Continue reading →

Beat’em ups were at an all time high around the early 90’s since the launch of Street Fighter 2 in the arcades. The C64 managed to get in on the mix with a poor conversion. However, other beat’em ups were … Continue reading →

Here we have another Richard Bayliss GTW, this time a two player game called Death or Glory. It was abandoned due to bitmap difficulties, and what remains is a briefly playable combat game where the players control a ‘ghost ship’ … Continue reading →

A pretty big turn up for the books when Ramos gave GTW the heads up about this game. Mark Gallagher is already known to GTW thanks to his other game Shylock which was uncovered, but on a set of pages … Continue reading →

Unfortunately not a massive amount can be really said about this game at this very early stage. Although looking very pretty with a cool star effect, there isn’t really anything playable to see. There seems to be a kind of … Continue reading →

A game in similiar mould to Scumball/IBall 2, with a similiar look and feel. This was developed in 1990, but was soon cancelled due to the developers feeling that this game could never do well, due to the dying C64 … Continue reading →

A game which readers of Commodore Format will no doubt remember only too well. The C64 was dying, the games were drying up and EBES (Electric Boys Entertainment Software) were attempting to keep it all going. A big spread was … Continue reading →

Another game from D-Lite, which unfortunatly doesn’t offer to much new to the user in terms of gameplay or style. Its another game on a still screen with the falling ship wave syndrome… how many more do we need? Anyway, … Continue reading →

A graphically impressive strip poker game, with some artwork which puts Cover Girl and Sam Fox Strip Poker right into the shade. Very proffesionally created, this game was mean’t for release by mail order. Featuring a impressive set of developers … Continue reading →

Now I can remember when this game first came about 10 years ago. After trying to locate my 10 year old site pages on Super Fighter for another entry, I discovered a news item I wrote on Lasse’s 8 directional … Continue reading →

A very simple single screen shooter which is in its early days, even if it does seem to have a lot of spit and polish making it up. There is very little to do apart from move your craft and … Continue reading →

A curious and complex puzzler which involves unscrambling various famous structures of world famous works of art created by Dr Devious. In the game, you control JJ (JoJo) Maverick, the hero who must do the unscrambling. The game featured some … Continue reading →

A preview of an up and coming game by Italian giants Simulmondo in 1992. Not much is known about the game, apart from the main character was based from an old Italian comic, called Diabolik. The character was a thief … Continue reading →