Games That Weren't^®

A silly name for a simple two player game (or the beginnings of one) where you must thrust around and destroy each other. The preview features some hi-res graphics and working ships, but no real interaction between the two just … Continue reading →

A C64 conversion of the popular TV game show. While promising to look at, the preview does not actually do much apart from ask a question about if you like the game or not. This just repeats over and over, … Continue reading →

Our next entry we’re not 100% certain of just yet – was it intended as a proper game, or was this merely part of a demo that was released back in the day? This was discovered by GTW regular Csaba … Continue reading →

A neat looking game in similar vein to the classic "Shadow Of The Beast". Not much in this preview apart from some nice scrolling graphics, a good main character and some rather large creatures to try and kill. You scroll … Continue reading →

Wildfire is an ace horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up in the Armalyte mould. Unfortunatly, once the game was programmed, it was sent to a games publishing company in Germany which was also part of a Cracking crew. Therefore it was cracked and … Continue reading →

When backing up disks from Darren Melbourne in December 2015, we found a preview called Wildfire, which we believed to be an early preview of the very same game by Starlight. Well, we were wrong! Wildfire was actually produced in … Continue reading →

Thanks to Jazzcat for the heads up about this game, which was shown recently on the developer’s website. The game was a sequel to a Gauntlet clone which was actually released by Markt & Technik in 1989. This clone though … Continue reading →

I remember all the hype when Worms was discovered by Amiga Format after they ran a competition for creating a game in Amos. The classic tank game with elevation and speed control had been turned into a fun multiplayer game. … Continue reading →

Nice and colorful to look at, but a over-sized logo cuts the game area to an almost silly size. The game is a side way scrolling SEU, and in typical old school fashion too. Quite possibly the logo is only … Continue reading →

This title seems to have been around for a while, but its the first time i’ve seen it. A fairly early sideways scrolling shooter, with some basic attack waves and interaction to keep you busy briefly.  It seems that you … Continue reading →

Another single screen modern invaders clone. Apart from some nice graphics, the game is very simplistic, and quite poor. A simple attack wave of creatures fly around, and you simply shoot them, then its onto the next attack wave of … Continue reading →

A very cool Ghost n Goblins clone which has some nice graphics and a lot of promise at this very early stage. There is no sound in the game, but the rest of it seems to be coming together really … Continue reading →

Xoanon (released as Xoanon Reptilia – which we’ll come onto shortly…) seems to be an early version of Xenon, or at least Gamebase makes the link with the game. So, are they indeed the same game? This preview just seems … Continue reading →

Our next entry (helping to fill up the rather empty X category) is a neat early preview of a Delta’esq clone called Xykik. The game was being developed by C64 musician Jason Morrell, of which this was his first venture … Continue reading →

Xytris is a really strange puzzler, which isn’t a tetris puzzler like you may think from the name, but a title where you must re-create the character from the box on the right side of the screen. There are two … Continue reading →