Games That Weren't^®

When you thought you had seen a load of new Apex bits and pieces, something else turns up! This is a very early preview of a Sidearms style game, which isn’t really playable apart from moving the main ship on … Continue reading →

A recently surfaced game thanks to Jazzcat, this time another space SEU which was in development roughly 15 years ago. Taking the Delta style theme, Trigger Happy features some promising graphics and attack waves.. but really its too early to … Continue reading →

Lemmings had just been finished, and then the average Amiga game popped up in the scene news about its conversion being worked on. It was basically lemmings which climbed EVERYWHERE. This was first mentioned in Commodore Force, towards the end … Continue reading →

It was always thought that Alter Developments would be doing the C64 conversion of Troddlers, if anyone. It was announced they were trying to do Troddlers in an issue of Commodore Force. These were the same team who brought you … Continue reading →

A big finding for GTW, thanks to Zeldin/Cascade, who came across a bizarre set of files on a bunch of second hand disks. These were named Trojan Demo 1 + 2. Upon further examination, it seems that the preview was … Continue reading →

Our next entry is a post-commercial era title from around 2005 that sadly was never to be completed. Tronscii is a PETSCII clone of the common tron light bikes game, two player only with dual scrolling playing grids and colour … Continue reading →

Nah, its nothing to do with Cheeze biscuits or Consevative Party conferences in Brighton, but is a rather early version of a Mayhem clone. When I say "Clone", it seems to be just that, with most the graphics seem to … Continue reading →

Yet another puzzler in production for the C64, and unfortunatly very similar to many other puzzlers which have been on the C64 already. Nice colourful graphics, but that is about it. Nothing much else new to offer in the way … Continue reading →

Ask a C64 user what their top 10 games are, and you’ll often find Turrican or Turrican 2 high up there. Although Turrican 2 was Manfred Trenz’s last Turrican effort on the C64, this did not deter fans of the … Continue reading →

The original Tusari was a flick-screen platform game that appeared on ZZAP! Megatape 35, given away with issue 89. However, Martin Piper has revealed that the sequel was going to be different. “It was a much updated version of the … Continue reading →

An intriguing title this one. Nothing much to it at this stage, but quite an impressive early Gyruss clone – with no enemies, but a nice effect when you rotate round the screen. You’re oddly controlling a car instead of … Continue reading →

A new and strange unfinished title which was found by Csaba Virag, created by someone in Hungary called Osvath in 1987. This is a very simple Pong style title which is far from finished, with just some basic ball mechanics … Continue reading →

I’m kind of surprised we didn’t have an entry for this game sooner in GTW64. This is another Paul Kubiszyn game which never saw the light of day and was being developed around the time Commodore Format were still going … Continue reading →

TWO is an early sideways scroller by Carl Wade of Gemini Wing fame. It is a cool looking preview, with some cool backgrounds, but borrowing sprites from Into Oblivion for the time being. Carl’s note suggests that this was to … Continue reading →

This graphically superb clone of Capcom’s Black Tiger was in production by Gary Liddon of Zzap fame, and also Paul (Dokk) Docherty of various artistic efforts. The game looked great in the adverts, and the screenshots looked very tasty for … Continue reading →

A new game, and one which we believe may not have had a release. This game was sold to Popular Computing Weekly by a young Ste Pattullo at the young age of 16 for around £100. The game is kind … Continue reading →

Following on from UFO 2, comes UFO 3!… a quick sequel which was developed for Commodore Disk User, but sadly just before CDU could publish, the publication folded… and so the game was never to be and remained on Ste’s … Continue reading →

Our next game is a title which was due for release in 2010 by Richard Bayliss. Richard as you know is a prolific game creator, and Ultimate Stunt Boat Challenge was to add to the impressive list of game titles … Continue reading →