Games That Weren't^®

A short entry for a title flagged up to us by Dan Warren, which is listed as being a Ubi Soft game – but from a bit of initial digging around, we couldn’t find any reference to it online apart … Continue reading →

A new GTW discovered by Jazzcat recently (plus fixed by Ian Coog), and passed onto GTW. This is a very early preview by Vibrants, which seems to be a gory but cute Op-Wolf clone of somekind. It’s hard to tell … Continue reading →

Our next entry into the GTW64 archives is a title that was recovered by Csaba Virag in early 2022. This is an early Hungarian puzzler that was created by Emix Software, who had very limited copies of their games made … Continue reading →

Exodus was to be a very ambitious war game which was described by its developer as a mix of Elite, Civilization and Traveler RPG. Paul Clansey was the C64 developer and shed some light on a development not really mentioned … Continue reading →

Exodus was to be a side scrolling shoot em up that owed it’s inspiration to Battlestar Galactica. A kind of cross between Defender and Uridium. The game was previously unknown by many until Darren Melbourne shed some light on the … Continue reading →

A nice early promising preview of a Lightforce clone, which although a little buggy in its early stages, has the qualities which made Lightforce as addictive as it was. Featuring graphics typical of a Lightforce clone, they do let the … Continue reading →

Yet another game which gets thrown into the archives, brought to GTW’s attention by Jason Kelk, and also released from the man himself. Extreme Force featured graphics by Julian Francois and was coded by his then girlfriend Amanda Wynne. This … Continue reading →

Eye 2 Eye was a simple game which was started in 1993 and sadly never finished. The game was a simple shooter with two people flying on a single screen and having to kill each other. Pretty much a glossy … Continue reading →

An unofficial conversion of the popular PC game, and one which was looking very impressive when the preview was released back in 2006. Unfortunately though it looked as if the project stalled, but thankfully it seems that the game is … Continue reading →

Some nice sprites and backdrops greet this game, which could possibly have done well on a commercial release. Unfortunately this was not to be. The final version never got into the shops or anywhere else in a later form, so … Continue reading →