Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Hi all – just a heads up that I may not get to process any site comments or submissions right away, as a close family member has been admitted to hospital. I’ll try and respond and update as soon as … Continue reading
As the backlog is starting to creep up a bit, here is something to relieve the backlog pressure!… Autoguard shots added New York Crisis entry added Three other entries added – 6 Kingdoms of Babylon, Bombmania, Bomber Clot Six entry … Continue reading
We are already currently aware of a very early version of RISK, which can be downloaded from here… http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=10980&d=18&h=0 However, the first issue of The Games Machine showed some preview shots of RISK, which have a slightly different panel, scanner … Continue reading
Not quite unreleased news, but an improved A06 version of The Quill and Illustrator for the Commodore 64 has recently been preserved, after it being realised that it hadn’t yet been done. Version A05 has been around for a long … Continue reading
Whilst at Zzap Live in May 2025, we met up with the legendary Tim Gilberts, who set up Gilsoft at the age of just 17. Tim flagged up that he had a very rare Italian version of The Quill which didn’t seem to be out there and preserved called “Creator 2”. Unfortunately it wouldn’t load for him. Continue reading
The latest issue of the free C64 fanzine, RESET has been released, which features a new regular Games That Weren’t section. This month covering Genesis’ Spellcast game. Check out the magazine and download from here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=128792
The latest issue of the free C64 fanzine, RESET has been released, which features a full GTW article on System 3’s Fuzzball game. Check out the magazine and download here: http://reset.cbm8bit.com/?dir=issue3
1985 Spinnaker Software/Windham Classics Platforms: Commodore 64 (GTW64 entry), Apple II and possibly DOS A short entry for a title highlighted by contributor Ricky Derocher, and which was due for release back in 1985 by Windham Classics – the same … Continue reading
Thanks to Fliplift on the Lemon64 forums, a very rare promo edition of Rock Star Ate My Hamster on the Commodore 64 has been recovered. This was released through The Sun newspaper, and has been missing for quite some time, … Continue reading
A very quick addition to the archives, with a unused loading picture by Oliver Lindau that was meant for Rolling Ronny on the C64. And also recently a sprite that was never used (sprites btw were apparently designed in … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1987 Games Designers Workshop Rommel: Battles for Torbruk by Games Designers Workshop (GDW) was planned to be a war strategy game, based around four battles fought between the WWII German commander Rommel and … Continue reading
A quick unused materials post today, where The Sarge recently released an unused Rubicon loading screen for the Commodore 64 via their Fairlight Demo called The Demo Coder. With thanks to Jazzcat for flagging up!
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1984 Triffid Research Software When it comes to RPGs one of the obstacles computer games have always had to overcome is how to proficiently transfer the unlimited experience of playing a pen and … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1984 Triffid Software Research For a more detailed analysis of Triffid Software Research and the Runemagic Adventure Series, read the entry for The Secret River. A quick summary is that a series of … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives 1988 Skyslip Sabian Island seems to be yet another game that was advertised to buy through mail order from a software company, without actually having ever being released. I dont know how many … Continue reading
First update for August, and an almost complete Scooby Doo game has arrived from nowhere thanks to the game’s creator via the Lemon64 forums… Check it out at … Scooby Doo 4 other new entries added Aircat, Jonny Quest, The … Continue reading
1986 Elite Platforms: ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 Dragons Lair was a technical marvel in the early 80s with its impressive Laser Disc technology. Elite jumped on the bandwagon with their licence of the popular cartoon series. Whereas Dragons … Continue reading
Recently in 2011 saw the re-launch of the Bad Taste label by Keith Wood in preparation for a upcoming article in Retro Gamer magazine on Dis Baby. Coming from events of producing the article and interest from the Bad Taste … Continue reading
There are some nice surprises that turn up from time to time in the C64 scene, and one recent one has been the surfacing of the Tape / Disk masterer of Edge/Softek’s conversion of Shao Lin’s Road on the C64. … Continue reading
A quick GTW64 update from us to present the first piece of Search For Sharla seen for over 20 years in the shape of the end sequence, thanks to the work of Andy Roberts and Vinny Mainolfi. In addition to … Continue reading
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