Games That Weren't^®

A sad casulty from the mind of Paul Kubiszyn. Super Pac Twins was hyped up in the pages of the later issues of Commodore Format, even featuring as a Diary Of A Game. The classic Pacman concept was to be … Continue reading →

One of the things I love about the Commodore 64, is where developers try and convert titles from 16-bit+ platforms onto the machine, and this is another attempt at doing just that, with conversion of the classic Amiga title. This … Continue reading →

An interesting version of Starforce, or so it seemed. X-Ample did both Starforce and Mega Starforce, with the later being released in 1993. This demo from 1994 seems to be a clone attempt of some sort. Super Starforce is basically … Continue reading →

Strange game this one by the Australian team Bad Bytes (Creators of Misfortune and Twin Terrors). What we have is a mixture of a still screen shooter and breakout. How this would actually work is anyone’s guess. The game isn’t … Continue reading →

A neat little Uridium style shooter, which was being worked on… but never quite finished…. though what you can see is the 99% complete version, but minus any sound or music. This was a first ever coded game by Rasmus, … Continue reading →

Our next title was a surprise finding on the disks of Dean Hickingbottom, and was likely sent to Video Images for evaluation. It is a very very early Operation Wolf clone with little interactivity at this stage, but looks like … Continue reading →

Yet another title enters the archives, and this time by the development team behind Lemmings on the Amiga. This was obtained from DMA Design’s own tribute webpage, and was released into the world by Mike Dailly for people to check … Continue reading →

The craze was almost too much when Tamagotchi cyber pets made their debut in the market during the late 1990s. The Japanese craze almost took over the world, or at least large numbers of UK children – who probably neglected … Continue reading →

Sadly another game I can’t mention too much about due to a lack of instructions or information. The game is another puzzler with a theme I don’t quite understand. There is a small left aligned grid with colourful blocks, but … Continue reading →

An odd entry this time, covering something which I was actually involved on :-) Tanx was to be an enhanced version of a game called Tanx written by David Ponting for Your 64 magazine as a type-in. The original game … Continue reading →

Another unfinished Lepsi game, and unfortunatly another tried and tested theme, based on Galaxians. Controlling your space ship, you must blast attack waves of alien lifeform, all over the top of a set of nicely drawn bitmaps. The attackwaves are … Continue reading →

Quite often when doing GTW64, we get a number of shocks and surprises that crop up, and none more than when we found a PDS disk with Tarzan Goes Ape written on it within Ashley Routledge’s disk collection. Started around … Continue reading →

"Technodream" is a fair "Lightforce" clone, with average graphics and gameplay. Although only just less than 10 years old, the game looks a lot older. It’s not known why the game was incomplete or who it was to be released … Continue reading →

This is the start of what seems to be an odd conversion of a title released on Amiga and PC – an icon driven graphic adventure game which was called “Telekommando II – The Return of the Telekommando” Nothing is … Continue reading →

Temple of Medom is an early and very strange game, where you control a bird initially flying over a landscape. Pressing fire and moving actually allows you to fly, but you can also land on the ground and turn into … Continue reading →

Terminus has some nice graphics, but the actual gameplay is very simplistic and doesn’t offer hardly any playability at this stage. You simply have to shoot the incoming enemies, which follow a very monotonous waveform – so much so that … Continue reading →

This is a title that seems to be missing at present and we believe was due for release by Novotrade. The same team that did titles such as Impossible Mission 2 and Express Raider on the C64. Now the last … Continue reading →

Although we have been adding games to the archive for many years, we still continue to see various surprises and unknowns unearthed as time goes on. There i’m sure will be many more to come still. In late August of … Continue reading →

A nice looking Tetris clone that was produced back in 1994 but sadly never got much further than its preview that sneaked out. Not too much to say apart from that it looks nice and plays ok, but still a … Continue reading →