Games That Weren't^®

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 →

The first in a series of three remarkable games, but most remarkable for the fact that only the 3rd game in the series has been finished and released at a crap game competition in recent years. Ake starts his adventure … Continue reading →

A little game which is a sequel to another game which never got finished. You may know the 3rd entry, which was actually finished and released in the Crap Game Compo in recent years called "Ake Goes Medievil". Ake goes … Continue reading →

A strange, but cute looking game with a well drawn fish as the main character. Similar to the underwater levels of Donkey Kong Country on the SNES, if you want to compare to other games. There is little in the … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title which was reportedly for Mastertronic back in 1988, but for reasons currently unknown never quite made it. The game was being developed by Reptilia Design, with code by Andy Syco (of Werewolves in London … Continue reading →

Another game with not much information. A promising game however, featuring elements of an old favourite from the past, Combat from the Atari 2600. This two player game features two tanks for which you can choose the weapons to arm … Continue reading →

Another title from the Twilight guys, Harold Klink and Martijn Althuizen. Alfred J Kwak is a promising title, which although in a very early development stage, looks like a rather good Mario/Fred’s Back clone with a duck as the main … Continue reading →

Not much to say about this game, which intrigues the archives of GTW. Apart from the fact that Virtual Factor were behind this space SEU, there is nothing much else that can be said. A simple single screen shooter, with … Continue reading →

Well, this is another title which has been out there for some time, but as we start going into the previews section in Gamebase, we are now finally starting to pick up some of these early and lost titles. Allaxmax … Continue reading →

Altarius is a promising sideways scrolling SEU, which has a 2 player mode and a wide range of attack waves thrown at you. No backgrounds apart from a star field at this stage though. You have unlimited lives, and can … Continue reading →