Games That Weren't^®

Nodule is nothing out of the ordinary, and repeats a genre of game that has been done before. Here you control a blue blob which has to navigate past green obstacles, while not touching them and avoiding worms. All within … Continue reading →

An interesting start of what seems to be an interpretation of Duck Hunt on the C64. It’s not badly done, though the target is a little slow and lethargic. But it looks promising overall, and would have maybe made a … Continue reading →

Nuclear Nick was one of a few titles advertised by Electric Dreams back in issue 8 of Zzap 64 games. Nuclear Nick was to be part of a double pack with a game called Scooter. It never quite surfaced, but … Continue reading →

Nucleus is an interesting game, not for its gameplay however (which is a basic invader clone). Well for a start, there is music in this game which sounds a lot like a Jon Dunn tune, but is infact by a … Continue reading →

Octron was Enthusi’s first attempt at game coding around 2007-2008 time – the game being an impressive 8 player Tron game! To play with 4 players, you would need a 4 player adaptor, and for 8 – two C64’s and … Continue reading →

Omega Ceti is a title that has been around for some time, possibly first surfacing on Compunet as a preview. The game is an interesting Uridium clone of sorts – which has a split screen display for two players to … Continue reading →

On Table is a very simple looking Pacman clone from 1997 where you control a strange spaceship style sprite over a shaded background. It has some functional graphics, and a nice tune (which starts off sounding like Supremacy with its … Continue reading →

A very simple side way scrolling shooter which was apparently being done for Markt and Technik back in 1992. Your fighter is fixed to the bottom of the screen and has no real interaction at this stage, but there are … Continue reading →

Oolong is a game which seems to be based on the character from Yie Ar Kung-Fu, and when you play this early preview – its clear to see that the entire game is based on that arcade. The moves are … Continue reading →

A graphically superb Pang clone from the publishers of PP Hammer, Ooops Up promised to beat the Ocean single screen arcade conversion, where you had to shoot various bubbles (which broke into smaller ones) until all were cleared from the … Continue reading →

Our next entry is quite a nice and polished fighting game from 1987, featuring some ripped Rob Hubbard music for good measure. You can kick enemies, or shoot them with a gun or bazooka, or throw grenades at them. There … Continue reading →

A Dinamic Software game that never was. Operation Neptune was a game that was produced by Narciso Quintana, who back in 1987 wanted to work within the games industry. He sent a music demo off to Dinamic, and had a … Continue reading →

Unfortunately another game in the archive I couldn’t get working to tell you about. Its quite a simple puzzler, with high detailed monocrome hi-res backgrounds. I remember the preview being very poor, and not really getting me too excited. More … Continue reading →

As we were looking into The Mermaid and the Crown, we chanced across a series of unreleased titles from Mountain Valley Software that was ran by Brian J Betts during the early-mid 1980s. This was one of five titles in … Continue reading →

A very early game from Jason Kelk, ex-editor of Commodore Zone, and also the main man behind Cosine Systems. Orbyt is a creation from Jason’s early days as a programmer, and is a unfinished game which was to involve using … Continue reading →

Electronic Zoo never produced much decent stuff on the C64, but that was to change with the stunning ‘Orcus’. A sideways scrolling shoot-em up which featured a shop with 29 (!) different add-ons on offer. Haydn Dalton informed GTW that … Continue reading →

Outbreak is a decent stab at a clone of Dr. Mario on the C64, which was due for release by the short-lived C64 label Flimsoft back in 2013. The game seems to have been pretty much mostly running, just lacking … Continue reading →

An exclusive look at another Cosmos Designs title you may not have heard about before. This is another fantastic looking Cosmos Designs game which has sadly never seen the light of day. We didn’t know much about the game, but … Continue reading →