Games That Weren't^®

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 →

Our next entry into the archives is one that I’m sure used to be here, but we removed for some reason. This was intended originally as a game for Ocean, but was never published and instead was picked up by … Continue reading →

A short entry for an unofficial sequel to an Italian platform title that was released by Idea software back in 1991. Moonshadow 2 was being created by Darkerror, started in 2018. A few previews were made, which looked essentially like … 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 →

A short and interesting little preview, where you control a man within a maze who just collects a bunch of objects to open a door. That is pretty much it at this stage, and is essentially a sprite/collision test rather … Continue reading →

Mutant Zone was to be the sequel to Spore and published by Mastertronic back in 1989. The sequel was a full 2/3 screen scrolling game which had a far right display panel (Top to bottom) consisting of multiplexed sprites. It … Continue reading →

A stunning little game, featuring some great graphics and wonderful spot effects and animations. This game was intended to be sold via mail order companies on the C64 for a price of around £8.99, which seems like a reasonable price … Continue reading →

This preview certainly is a mystery, and we guess this was a working title for a game cracked by Russ Michaels from his Ironfist days. This is a simple multi-directional scroller where you control a space ship within a maze. … Continue reading →

A fantastic Super Zelda clone written for the C64 by Crossbow/Crest and was a secret part to the demo Krestage 3 – More Weird Stuff. This awesome clone has to be seen to be believed. Unfortunately it seems we will … Continue reading →