Games That Weren't^®

Very aptly named is our next entry, known only as Prototype. It even comes with its own proper logo, so it wasn’t a working title either. And the preview is very much a prototype, with not a huge amount to … Continue reading →

A like a good shoot-em up, and Proxima is right up my street as a result. A sideways scrolling shooter with some nice parallax effects. It’s very early days, but you can shoot enemies and move around the looping level … Continue reading →

David Green is probably more well known for his music that he composed for the likes of Boing and also Reckless Rufus for Mike "Kernal" Berry. But it seems that David also did a bit of coding too, and so … Continue reading →

Game released as Fred The Fruiter. Case closed!

A quick entry for a new game that has been dug out by C64 musician JCH, which was a puzzle based game due out in the early 1990s, but was just never to be. JCH produced a number of tunes … Continue reading →

I remember seeing the UK adverts for Pushover, and the various competitions that Quavers ran to win an Amiga with a copy of the game. Sadly no C64 version was ever on the cards for reasons unknown, so Michelangelo Carbonara … Continue reading →

A strange game which was popular on the Amiga, mainly for its wacky animation. This game featured a blue blob of putty which could mould itself into numerous shapes and absorb strange creatures to help defeat a geezer called Dazzledaze. … Continue reading →

Sadly another puzzle game which I don’t have much information about. Nor do I know how to play. If I haven’t mentioned it earlier, then if anyone would care to elborate about how some of these games are meant to … Continue reading →

Another title which should have been added to the GTW archives a very long time ago, after evidence of a C64 conversion was found in a manual of a released version of the game. Q*Bert’s Qubes was a sequel to … Continue reading →

Unlike we previously thought, this game was actuallyreleased on the german disk magazine "Input 64" in the year 1986 as "Die versunkene Stadt" (sunken city). Gamebase64 has the game here: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=8381&d=18&h=0 This entry as a result will be removed in … Continue reading →

Our next entry has very little in the way of clues, apart from this loading screen created by Lizard for Tim Rogers and Darrin Stubbington. We believe the screen was released on Compunet at some point, and was found lurking … Continue reading →

We need a lot more information on this title, from Cory in particular – but on Cory Kin’s disks, we found a series of bits and pieces (mostly graphics) for a sort of RPG/Gauntlet looking game. We believe it was … Continue reading →

Quix is a new title for GTW which has been uncovered by Jazzcat. This is a title which has a familiar style of gameplay to a level out of Terminator 2, where Sarah Connor had to escape from an insitute. … Continue reading →

The famous sideways scroller R-Type was in fact released on the C64 by Electric Dreams, but a different version to what was originally planned and was being worked on. Our first real knowledge of something being slightly odd was after … Continue reading →

Next up is a nice early run and gun game with some good graphics – very much like a title you’d expect to see released by Players/Rack-IT as a budget title perhaps in 1990. There are about 4 levels in … Continue reading →