Games That Weren't^®

Sector seems to be a very early stage puzzle shuffle game which was left to rot for reasons unknown. It looks colourful and well designed enough, but it’s an idea which has been seen many times over already. Did the … Continue reading →

A surprise discovery when browsing the Gamebase 64 archive, with a simple but neat shooter by Mikael Tillander, the creator of Knight n Grail. This was a very early development by him, which has some lovely animations and has you … Continue reading →

A very quick entry – but on some disks converted from Darren Melbourne by C64.com, some graphical assets for an aborted Shao Lin’s Road conversion was found. The graphics were done by Ned Langman as one of his first ever … Continue reading →

“Shoot” is best described as a neat Uridium/Sanxion clone, with some fast action blasting over blue bas-relief graphics (Very 80’s style, and unlike a 1994 game). Most of the titles and game seems to be present in this preview, and … Continue reading →

So was this game really to be released by Hi-Tec Software back in 1992? We don’t believe so, though the development team of this game we believe had submitted (or intended to) the game to the UK software company. The … Continue reading →

Shove involves the player guiding a ball through various levels of mazes to the exit, while avoiding other enemies and obstacles. Quite a simple concept which works well, and offers a few hours of fun. Not the best game around, … Continue reading →

Shuttle is potentially a game that never really got off the ground unfortunately. A game by Steve Davis around 1987 time, this was first mentioned in a demo of the same name by Steve that was released on Compunet, and … Continue reading →

A currently unknown game which is still being investigated by GTW. In a music collection sent out to software houses as a demo by Mark Wilson, Mark mentions music for a game called SHYLOCK being developed by Deesl Designs. Now, … Continue reading →

Not too much to say just yet about our next title, as it is so early in development by the looks of things. Sigma Wing is a sideways scrolling shooter we assume, mainly because there is little else going on … Continue reading →

“Behold, the fifth generation of home computer entertainment Get the Sigue Sigue Sputnik computer game from your favourite software house now…” – was the advert blurted out after one of Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s tracks on their recent album back in … Continue reading →

A very interesting title which has been sitting in the digital archives for some time. Sir Lancelot is a scrolling platform and ladders title, sort of like an ancient Green Beret style game. It only has the one level, no … Continue reading →

Sky-Jack is an odd platformer game, where at this early stage the player actually glides around, rather than jumps. I guess the preview was just to test some of the map and sprite mechanics, but little else at this stage. … Continue reading →

Nothing to see here, more on! Skylight is nothing really more at this stage a demo part – just with a logo and a sprite that moves around. It isn’t really a game! Maybe it was just a demo? For … Continue reading →

"Slammer" is a nice update to the classic Pong theme, with two jetpacked characters and two bats which have to defend a goal and get the ball in the back of the opponents goal. Featuring some updated graphics, nice sprites … Continue reading →

Another great looking game from one of the C64’s last commercial saviour’s, Jon Wells. You simply had to replicate the picture on the left hand side by sliding the pieces together. The same game essentially as ‘Puzzle Shuffle’. This puzzler … Continue reading →

A more recent game which never surfaced in the end, created in 2000, Slither is a simple shooter which promised a lot of new features in the finished game. Sadly it was never to be, and so the game remained … Continue reading →

A rather large version of the classic Snake game, spread over a large map. You control a snake which has to avoid contact with all walls and other snakes as long as possible. Graphically the game is very poor, featuring … Continue reading →

CP Verlag were almost always known to release high quality games, though with this game, its hard to believe that. "Sniper" is a poor Op Wolf perspective game, where you have to snipe naff looking sprites behind poor backdrops. I … Continue reading →

Snoopy 2 is an unofficial sequel to the 1984 RadarSoft game, where you must jump over a series of objects to get to the next level. The sequel just presents more of the same with snazzier graphics overall. The preview … Continue reading →

This is a pretty interesting unofficial conversion of Snow Bros which surfaced in 2012 from a coder called Black Turk. It’s very rough around the edges, but it isn’t too bad – and looks like a Snow Bros game, though … Continue reading →