Games That Weren't^®

Mini Don is a cool Don Doko Don conversion which was being done as part of a mini-game compo. Although looking and playing brilliantly, the developer didn’t finish it as the graphics were too much to fit within 4K. It … Continue reading →

Lovely and promising is a way of describing Minimus, which was in development back in 2012. The preview that has managed to sneak out shows a decent animated main character who can jump around a sideways scrolling platform world, and … Continue reading →

Developed way back in 1996, Misfire was to be a neat two player split screen battle in the style of Solar Jetman/Thrust, where you must fly around a map to find each other and destroy each other. The preview released … Continue reading →

Another GTW game from the 80’s, created by a company who call themselves ‘Backroom Software’, so obviously this wasn’t created in house. We believe that this game was actually created by Steve Dunn, who also did the Blast game in … Continue reading →

Mission X is a cool looking sideways scrolling shooter with cool Uridium style backgrounds. It’s a short map, as you start hitting random parts of the game’s code as it runs out of map to show, but its enough to … Continue reading →

This isn’t much of a game, but in some way I actually like it. You control a very colourful glow-worm type creature, which flys through a colourful set of parallax stars backdrop. You must collect as many of the objects … Continue reading →

Yet another title from Backroom Software, and one of their earlier developments that has been flagged up by Dan Warren. It is believed that Backroom Software was none other than Steve Dunn, who did various C64 games such as Better … Continue reading →

Monster Museum was mentioned in March 1989 of The Games Machine as coming soon with the following blurb – “Other games on Palace’s mean menu include Monster Museum, an arcade adventure with graphics by Gary Carr and main programming by … Continue reading →

Our next entry is a rather interesting Maniac Mansion style game written by Francois Blanchette back in 1986. The game in 2014 has been resurrected in its final state in 1992, restored and properly named by Atlantis/F4CG. Unfortunately this is … Continue reading →

Since the craze of Wolfenstein and Doom on the PC’s in the early 90’s, we saw a new breakthrough in gaming. Seeing this kind of game even on the likes of a SNES or an Amiga was pretty impressive to … Continue reading →

Another cool looking Dungeons and Dragons preview goes into the archives, this time one from Kopido games which seemed to run out steam. In this preview, you can move around a little bit – but there is no real gameplay … Continue reading →

Also known as Moonstone – A hard days knight, this is an unofficial conversion of the Mindscape Amiga game, and a very good start too which has been made! There are some cool introduction sequence screens, followed by some brief … Continue reading →

Another very early preview, Moppel is a simplistic side scroller where you control some guy that I think is in a wheelchair and scrolls across a city landscape. It’s quite simple, and apart from the scrolling and some little animations, … Continue reading →

Possibly a bit of a shock for you now, as we take a look at a GTW entry for Mortal Kombat 2! Out of nowhere, an unofficial conversion of the sequel appeared, and a bloody good looking conversion too when … Continue reading →

Motorman is an impressive clone of Excitebike from the NES, and looks really good at this early stage. The bikes animate very well, and you can do jumps and avoid various obstacles against a few other computer players. It’s even … Continue reading →

You may remember another entry called Beauty and The Beast, which was an unofficial licence of the Disney film, and rather oddly done within the Last Ninja engine. Well, not long after finishing with Beauty and The Beast, the same … Continue reading →

Yet another puzzler to add to the archives, this time something a little different where you must replicate the pattern on the right most box. It’s pretty simple stuff, with some snazzy presentation at the bottom – it isn’t anything … Continue reading →

Move Out is another tile based puzzler, though I couldn’t quite work out what you were meant to do. Anyone have any ideas? Well, contributor Ken Knight found the following via the comments: “The only thing I figured out as … Continue reading →

Our next title is a conversion of an obscure 1984 Spectrum game by John Prince called Mr Wong’s Loopy Laundry. Not an official conversion, and one done some 24 years later by Peter Vass. The game seems pretty complete, but … Continue reading →