Dungeons and Dragons was a gaming phenomena that started in the 1970s when historical gaming enthusiasts, Gary Gygax created his own rules to tabletop battlefield gaming and focused it on a small group of heroes sneaking into a castle. The … Continue reading →
A very quick entry, but in an article by Commodore Format and written by Gary Penn, it was mentioned that Gary Liddon had written a game called Advanced Soccer Simulator for Codemasters back in the day which was never released. … Continue reading →
Before Elite got the licence for Airwolf, Ocean Software actually started producing the home computer conversions. Although it was advertised for the Spectrum in the scan, it was infact also planned for the C64 until Elite Software won a legal … Continue reading →
Often there were titles that had completely different US releases, such as Bionic Commando and Afterburner. Some were just NTSC fixed versions of the UK releases, such as Salamander. Ajax (or A-Jax) was another title planned for release by Konami … Continue reading →
ALA Software were an obscure company from the US who defined their games as “Games with Guts”. They were part of a mother company called ALA Enterprises (which was a record label). All software was written by General Masters Corporation. … Continue reading →
A short entry for yet another Kele Line title, and one which at this stage we know little about. We have learnt about the title thanks to contributor Henrik Matzen, who had a bunch of Kele Line related materials and … Continue reading →
Another game with not much information. A promising game however, featuring elements of an old favourite from the past, Combat from the Atari 2600. This two player game features two tanks for which you can choose the weapons to arm … Continue reading →
A short entry for our next GTW. This is one of the first mentions of the Alien VS Predator franchise which Activision first started out with. Commodore Format first talked about plans of Activision to produce a game for the … Continue reading →
Not much to say about this game, which intrigues the archives of GTW. Apart from the fact that Virtual Factor were behind this space SEU, there is nothing much else that can be said. A simple single screen shooter, with … Continue reading →
After the successful Alien game developed for Argus Press, it seemed inevitable that the same company could have developed the sequel. Sure enough, developer of the original game, Paul Clansey confirmed that he had started an outline design of Aliens … Continue reading →
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