A very short entry for a title which was being designed by Stephen Bedser in 1993 for the C64. The game had a working title of Squat Bot, and was based around a small robot that could change its faceplate … Continue reading →
The sequel to one of the biggest 16-bit vector games was started on the C64 way back in 1989, trying to improve on the original version. Way back in August 1988, the 16-bit versions were reviewed. In the interview with … Continue reading →
A short entry to pull together a series of various art assets by Stuart (Stoo) Fotheringham, who did artwork for Software Projects and Denton Designs during his C64 days. This interesting selection of images has been around for sometime and … Continue reading →
A surprise finding for GTW in 2012 was made when Richard Bayliss was checking through some loader source files from Paul Hughes’ disks that we backed up recently, and he came across a source code file named “Defender 2”. Richard … Continue reading →
Thanks to The Bird Sanctuary for highlighting this attempt at an official conversion of Super Mario Bros. This was to be a proper conversion, started in mid-1987 by Gary Liddon (code) and Gary Penn (graphics). They essentially recreated the entire … Continue reading →
There have been many abandoned attempts at bringing Super Mario Bros to the Commodore 64 over the years, and thankfully we got to see a proper and accurate conversion in 2019. This however was yet another potential conversion that was … Continue reading →
One of the things I love about the Commodore 64, is where developers try and convert titles from 16-bit+ platforms onto the machine, and this is another attempt at doing just that, with conversion of the classic Amiga title. This … Continue reading →
Nope, this is not anything to do with the Gremlin Graphics game by the Core Design team (even though you’ll see, the blue logo looks startlingly like the Gremlin game’s logo) – but this is in fact a completely different … Continue reading →
Our next entry is a title that was being worked on by Robert Wilson back in 1989 and was recently discovered again on his old work disks. The game itself is a sideways scrolling shooter with a guy on a … Continue reading →
Yet another title enters the archives, and this time by the development team behind Lemmings on the Amiga. This was obtained from DMA Design’s own tribute webpage, and was released into the world by Mike Dailly for people to check … Continue reading →
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