Games That Weren't^®

A nice old preview, which very much reminds me of the classic "Shadow Of The Beast". Featuring some nice graphics, with parallax scrolling features, the game has the standard building blocks of a good game. The only problem seems to … Continue reading →

Yet another unfinished project from Rasmus, and this time a neat looking early preview. This was mean’t as an experiment with multilayer parallax scrolling, which turned into a promising looking game. There are two previews of the game, both quite … Continue reading →

Our next entry into the archives is a fairly recent development from 2018 which sadly seems to have been abandoned. Beat Em Up (working title) is a set of test concepts where you have two players that can fight against … Continue reading →

Right, just to start but the System 3 link isn’t quite true, and we think this was based on the developers who were enthusiastically trying to produce games on the C64 and may have used the name in the hope … Continue reading →

A game sadly scrapped back in 1997. A shame really, as it looks and plays very well. Beep Boy puts you in the control of a very cute yellow geezer, who shoots his way past robots and other creatures to … Continue reading →

Behemoth was to be a kind of Armalyte clone for a budget label to pay some bills at Walking Circles. When questioned, the game’s developer Carleton Handley had the following to say: “Our C64 work from Domark dried up as … Continue reading →

It may come as something of a surprise, but it was recently revealed by Michael Ware (of Warhawk fame) that he was originally working on a conversion of Biff back in the day under his Proteus Developments label. Michael was … Continue reading →

A very early preview of a game consisting of a controllable fish which can swim around the one screen present here. Swimming off the screen makes you reappear on the opposite end. Apart from a little animated interaction with another … Continue reading →

An early 1990 puzzle game, of which there were a flood back then which were started and abandoned it seems. This was yet another. I’m not fully sure what you have to do, but the game is well presented and … Continue reading →

It’s not always unreleased games covered in the GTW64 archives, as occasionally we see the odd unearthed early preview or development version of an actual released game with some interesting differences or features. Today we have an earlier build of … Continue reading →

A surprise finding for GTW from a bundle of disks were recently sent in 2007 to GTW from Wayne Billingham, and on these disks came this very game. A preview of a fairly complete looking title called “The Power of … Continue reading →

A simple and early vertically scrolling game from an unknown period, and which has surfaced from an unknown source it seems. It’s a very early stage game and there doesn’t seem to be a trace of who was behind the … Continue reading →

As described by its creators "An Old Skool style shooter", and thats exactly what it is. Could be mistaken for a SEUCK effort, this is nothing too much to write home about. Simply shoot a series of attack waves and … Continue reading →

Steve Dunn did a few fair titles on the C64, but also had a few interesting unfinished/unreleased titles under his Backroom Software label. Blast was one of these titles which was a sort of Warhawk clone in its early stages … Continue reading →

Blaster Twins is a very early Bomberman clone which was being developed for Threshold Productions in the 90’s. There isn’t a huge amount that can be done, apart from blow up some bricks and move both players around. The Green … Continue reading →

An apparently neat puzzle game which doesn’t offer the most attractive of graphics, but is apparently very great to play. The game was done as some fun by a guy called Jer, who does not mention any more finishing off, … Continue reading →

An exclusive title to GTW and for the Christmas update of 2006. Thanks to Dave Spicer, our next title was originally known only as “Block game” due to not being given a proper name during its development, but we later … Continue reading →

Another good looking platform game, in its early stages. Blockman is very similar to Bleep Boy which is also in the archives, and is built using the same engine, though cosmetically the game is completely different. Actually both games are … Continue reading →

Bloid Bros is a 2 player split screen scrolling game which was written by Paul Rogers who did Time Soldier and Double Dragon 3 on the C64. You control two blobs which look rather like the character from Head The … Continue reading →

A quick entry for a game which has recently been uncovered. This is a very early and simple sideways SEU which is of particular interest because it contains we think an unheard JT tune and graphics by Arthur Van Jole. … Continue reading →