Following on from the shock of Lunar Jetman being converted to the C64, you may be surprised to learn that Cookie was also being converted. Not content with doing the music for the BBC version of Cookie, and also producing … Continue reading →
Our next entry into the archive come thanks to Gareth Pitchford, who flagged up this currently missing homebrew text adventure game by Derek Doran. The game was advertised in Commodore User magazine back in 1986, but although their game Prime … Continue reading →
Covert Action was a new Sid Meier game from back in the early days and following the success of Microprose’s earlier Pirates game. The game was announced as a title coming soon for the Commodore 64 back in 1988 in … Continue reading →
When we couldn’t get Super Mario Bros on the C64, we instead had Great Giana Sisters or Terry’s Big Adventure, and they were lovely attempts at getting something similar. Of course, now we actually have a proper conversion of SMB … Continue reading →
Another rare sight from Apex Productions. While Creatures 2 was in development, there were a number of ideas thrown around, and one of them was this very demo. This was to be a Bonus Game within Creatures 2, where Clyde … Continue reading →
A surprise title next to put into the GTW archives – but one where sadly we may never see the full potential. Croc was to be a very very late title on the C64 from Ash and Dave – approximately … Continue reading →
Crossbones was originally a game which had very little known it, apart a mention way back in 1987 in “Happy Computer” magazine. It was in an interview with Brian Fargo and Bill Heineman of Interplay where they first mentioned that … Continue reading →
As we were looking into The Mermaid and the Crown, we chanced across a series of unreleased titles from Mountain Valley Software that was ran by Brian J Betts during the early-mid 1980s. This was one of five titles in … Continue reading →
Now for something a little different for GTW, as this special entry is more a Intro That Weren’t than a Game That Wasn’t. As you well know, the Rowlands were two famous C64 developers, creating the fab Creatures series and … Continue reading →
Whilst playing our next entry (which has been out there for a while it seems), something seemed very familiar. The game has quite a Spore-like feel to it, but the main ship looked just like the one from Mutant Zone … Continue reading →
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