Games That Weren't 64^®

Well, seems like summer doesn’t want to end and if anything it feels hotter than August! Whilst we melt away, the updates continue within the GTW64 archives with the following additions and updates:

7 new entries added

As well as a strange (early?) version of Poltergeist, we have a number of previously unpreserved Hungarian games thanks to Csaba Virag and also some new titles highlighted by Baracuda:

Poltergeist V1, Raceday, Sakkozo Elefant, Strike Back, Szigethy Quest, The Stock Exchange, Time Quest

19 updates added

As well as the usual updates, tucked away is the recovery of Monkeybuilder and Bible Baseball and joining the dots for Ash and Dave’s car game – Switchblade (nothing to do with the Gremlin game!):

Anty Up, Bible Baseball, Bomb, Brain Death, Combat Chess, Deadhead, Diskovery titles, Donkey Kong Jr, EastEnders, Matterhorn, Money Minefield, Monkeybuilder, Murder!, Pharaoh’s Pyramid, Phoenix Lair, Switchblade, Typo Attack, Vanguard, Vapour

A bonus post to finish the week. Recently Fabrizio Bartoloni flagged up someone called BloodyCactus looking at an unreleased C64 adventure game called The Mermaid and the Crown.

Whilst looking into details to try and add entries onto the site, via the CASA Solution Archive we found that there were about 5 other adventure titles by Mountain Valley Software that were also never completed and released.

So, here are entries for all six of the titles overall, in case you hadn’t seen them before:

• https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/the-mermaid-and-thecrown/
• https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/the-curse-of-cranbury-manor/
• https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/sorcerers-of-ravenswood/
• https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/crypt/
• https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/ophir-2/
• https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/treasure-of-dead-mans-cay/

With thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni, BloodyCactus and CASA Solution Archive.

As summer starts to near the end, we continue to squeeze out more updates for the C64 archive – which seems to have no end in sight! Check out the following updates for August:

Early Karl Hörnell game found

Karl Hörnell’s early title Puzzle Mania has been found and preserved by Genesis Project. Check out some of Karl’s earliest work.

Puzzle Mania

19 Boot Camp – Part 2 graphics found

A big recovery has been made by GTW64 on a series of assets for the adventure version of 19 Boot Camp – Part 2. Check them out below if you missed the recent update.

19 Boot Camp – Part 2

Also … 5 new entries added

Anty Up, Connections, Funfair Inc, Matterhorn, 1990

And … 19 other updates added

Arthema, Bomb, Chess, Crystal Castles V1, Denny’s Quest 2, Devious Designs, Footloose, Joust, Messiah 3, Phoenix Lair, Prince Of Persia, Quo Vadis V2, Rockus, Shear Panic, Switchblade, Typhoon Thompson, Victory Road (UK version), Worron