Games That Weren't^®

A mixture of Puzznic and Boulderdash in our next puzzle game within the depths of GTW. The plot is a little thin on this nice looking puzzler, with no instructions to explain exactly what to do. This looks a fairly … Continue reading →

An early preview from the days when the C64 was riding high commercially. Griffin could easily be thought of as a Rastan clone of sorts, and I say that as the main character is ripped from Rastan. However it isn’t. … Continue reading →

I remember first seeing Grubz about 10 years ago and being completely blown away. At last here was a fully fledged Worms clone on the C64 and looking every bit as good as the Amiga original. Sadly 20 years on … Continue reading →

Some of you may remember a little game from the covermount of Commodore Zone some years back, called Quota, a neat little game. Created by the talented Chris Young around 1989, Chris had previously been working on a game before … Continue reading →

A SEU that was being developed back around 1991 time and for years has been wrongly attributed to being a game due for release by Electric Boys Entertainment Software around 1995 time. It is likely that EBES picked up the … Continue reading →

Thanks to Witold Bryndza for the heads up for our next entry, which was to be a stylish Hangman game produced for Eagleware International in 1995 by Faith Design The game was to feature some very polished intros and graphics … Continue reading →

Our next title in the archives sounds like it should be some kind of jet fighter game, but in fact Harrier Strike was a space shooter which was being written by Duncan Kershaw shortly after Steel Eagle. Originally it was … Continue reading →

A strange little preview by Thomas Miegel, involving somekind of space craft doing duties over various landscapes. HAWK is based on INTENSITY by Andrew Braybrook – the aim is to rescue people. You control one vehicle, press fire to land … Continue reading →

Hawkeye 2 was something that original coder Mario van Zeist wanted to realise, with better graphics, sound and more added twists to the gameplay. It was going to be released under the Thalamus label, but was never completed due to … Continue reading →

Heartlight 64 is a nice early single screen Boulderdash clone created by the author of Assembloids which sadly seems to have been abandoned. Featuring some nice effective graphics, it still feels a little raw – but its perfectly playable and … Continue reading →

Erm… Naff is the first word for this game, if you can call it a game. I’m not sure if this was done for the heck of a few points to some cracking crew, or if this was ever intended … Continue reading →

You’ve gotta give any coder credit for producing games on the C64 at such a late stage after its commercial death. Even the most boring to the most exciting deserve credit, this game included. Unfortunately, it’s not a game which … Continue reading →

Heng was to be a sort of Civilization-based game on the C64, which was developed from around 2009 time. The idea was for the game to be a real-time strategy with 2 players (or player vs AI), where you have … Continue reading →

A wonderful little preview, involving a well-drawn character called ‘Henry’. It is a little frustrating to play this ‘Fred’s back’ style game, with some hard jumps and obstacles to avoid, but it looks quite polished with some neat graphics and … Continue reading →

After some impressive introduction screens, you are greeted with a preview which doesn’t seem to look like very much at all, until you get playing. The preview looks a bit out dated, but plays fairly well in typical old-school fashion. … Continue reading →

High Memory is another puzzler which was being developed in the height of the puzzle game flood of the early 90’s (Or at least it seemed like just that to me at the time! :) ) The game is basically … Continue reading →