Unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games for the Commodore 64.
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We (GTW64) cover unreleased and cancelled games and prototypes specifically for the Commodore 64 computer. A non-profit large archive dedicated to preserving games that were never released to the public. Sharing history and stories from the developers, assets and more before it is too late.
A new recovery thanks to Retroboy – an unfinished and early bullfighting game for the C64 called ‘La Venganza del Toro’.
This has been added today into the GTW64 archives, which you can now check out for yourselves at https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/la-venganza-del-toro/
Enjoy and Happy Friday!
Richard Bayliss has been working hard the past few months to finish off an abandoned Columns clone which was infamously released into PD and onto Commodore Format’s covertape in an incomplete form around 30 years ago.
This has now been fully completed and you can download a playable version of the game, with proper scoring and with the ability for the game to end.
Check it out at: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/blockie/
Thanks to the brilliant preservation work of Paladin of Genesis Project, and kindly passing his work over – we are proud to present a large list of educational game recoveries and preservations.
Some titles are listed within our GTW64 archives as missing, and others were not on anyone’s radar. Here is the complete list:
The full archive can be downloaded below, and we will quickly update the relevant entries to point to this post. A huge thank you to Paladin of Genesis Project for recovering these titles and allowing them to be crossed off the preservation list.
Just missed posting in January I know, but we’ve been busy the past month or so just tidying up some of our pages and adding a few quick updates along the way. No new entries, but plenty of updates instead and hopefully highlighting some titles that you may not have read about before. Enjoy!
Arena, Armalyte V1, Billy Boulder, Bod Squad 2, The, Car Game, Chainsaw Warrior, Combat 2004, Delphian, Dungeons Of Death, Force Of The Vulcan, Gamma Strike, Gotcha Maths, Halloween, International Soccer Challenge, Italian pirated games, Kid Saviour, Kobayashi Naru 1994, Light Cycles 2004, Make My Day, Manhatten Dealers, Mutant Zone, Nimitz, Paranoid Pete, Pegasus, Populous, Primary Maths Tutor, Project Sparkk, Quark, Shard of Inovar 1994, Spellcast, Star Maze, Star of Africa, Starglider 2, The Godfather, The Seven Gates Of Jambala, Toddler Tutor, Tour De Force, Toyota Rally, Trailrunner, Viaje Al Centro, Video Images game, War Of The Worlds, Worron, Zorakk
Our next entry into the archives was thought to have been both a C64 and Atari 800/400 development for Databyte back in the 1980s. Billy Boulder was flagged up to us by developer Ron Rosen in late 2022, a game that was in fact seemingly due for release on Amiga, ST and PC – but in a bizarre twist, it was indeed also an 8-bit title too after all.
The game was known in full as The Legend of Billy Boulder, and had artwork created by Art Huff, who worked on a number of Atari 8-bit and C64 titles during the 1980s. Previously, Art had worked on a game called Adam Caveman, which was also never released. Continue reading
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