Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Author of the Codemasters graphic adventure Slightly Magic, Colin Jones, has set up a new Kickstarter project to resurrect the game in a 8-bit legacy edition (with faithfulness to the original graphics), but also with an extra special incentive which … Continue reading
Eagle-eyed visitors may have noticed our cryptic note on the end of our last GTW64 news update. Well, we have something a little special for you coming up on the site, and hopefully a bit of Christmas come early. It’s … Continue reading
Back in the days before SEGA’s trusty blue mascot appeared on the scene, the company would licence its various games to the likes of Activision, and U.S. Gold – resulting in conversions of Afterburner, Outrun and many more for home computers of the time. Continue reading
Another big finding for 2015!…. Soul Gem Of Martek recovered Unfortunately not the full game (which may not have existed), but GTW is proud to present remains of a title that has been missing for over 30 years. Amazingly, not … Continue reading
Carl Muller did a fantastic job squeezing in Speedball 2 onto the Commodore 64 back in 1991. However, it was at a cost in various areas … and most notably was for some of the in-between screens. Commodore Format in … Continue reading
A highlighted review from the http://www.gtw64.co.uk archives Designed as the sequel to the highly thought of Star Fleet, Star Fleet II was aimed at being bigger, better and more complex than its already complex predecessor. Both were war simulation games … Continue reading
GTW’s Jazzcat has been busy arranging for a number of years the translation and release of a long lost game called Star of Africa. Well, finally the time has come and everything is now completed. Here you can find the … Continue reading
Following on swiftly from the amazing recovery of Monster Muncher on the VIC-20, we now have the Commodore 64 edition of Stargate by Atarisoft for you. A long lost development by Tom Griner which has been part of our search … Continue reading
1988 Canvas Software / U.S Gold Platforms: Atari ST and Commodore 64 As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are adding additional assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus … Continue reading
Not massively different, but thanks to Luca Bertoldi, here is a screen showing a rather different looking main character for Stormlord – looking more elvish and beardless. It’s possible that more early screens exist, so if you spot any – … Continue reading
Wow, has it really been since April when I did a GTW64 update? Well, the updates have been happening since then, but I haven’t done a digest of what has changed, so here it is below. But also, we have … Continue reading
1992 Palace Software Platforms: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, PC, C64, Amstrad CPC Note: This is heavily based on the original C64 archive entry. Originally starting off and named as Barbarian 3, this was originally to be a straightforward sequel to … Continue reading
Whilst going through the disks of Cory Kin, we found an early preview of Tangent, which was released under the Softek label eventually (which was part of The Edge) – but this prototype specifies The Edge as the label for … Continue reading
Not a massively early version as such, but contributor Bruce Coates has highlighted that the Commodore User review of Target Renegade seems to have the baseball bat as a weapon in the other levels in the game. In the version … Continue reading
Another surprise finding, this time of an aborted early conversion of Codemasters’ Tarzan Goes Ape game, which looks very different to the final released version, with far better graphics. It isn’t sadly too playable, but you can sort of move … Continue reading
Another early version of a title which saw release on the C64, this time an earlier edition of Strike Fleet. This originally was to be called Task Force 1990, but seemingly went under a bit of a cosmetic change and … Continue reading
It’s been on the Gamebase64 and GTW64 missing list for many years now and was unknown if it was released or not. Well, it can be confirmed that the game was indeed released and has been fully preserved. The game … Continue reading
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Just wanted to say a huge thank you to Cory Kin, who has recently posted some disks for GTW64 to preserve – but also included a Zoom Floppy device for us to keep. Already it’s proved invaluable in backing up … Continue reading
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