Brought to my attention by Jason Kelk, AD Infinitum is a early version of W.A.R which was released by Martech in 1986. You may wonder what a game like this is doing in the GTW archives, but you will notice … Continue reading →
A rather obscure title to add into the vaults, and one which was discovered kinda by accident by GTW. Pete Wright is unknown really to the C64 world, but a blog entry we have recently uncovered showed that Pete was … Continue reading →
Famous for the fantastic Crazy Comets and Mega Apocalypse, it was a honour to finally meet Simon Nicol at 2003’s BIT5 Brighton event. As well as talking about Mad Planets to Simon, Simon started conversation about a Car game which … Continue reading →
A rather ambitious game from Martech on the C64 indeed… just look at the screenshots! The story goes as follows (Thanks to a CVG clipping).. “The game was to be a 3D vector graphic arcade adventure where you control a … Continue reading →
Cosmic Shock Absorber was a game that was heavily advertised in all the major magazines of the time (Thanks to LeeT for the supplied scan!), and for years C64 users waited for it to arrive, but it never did. However, … Continue reading →
The source of this next entry is interesting as it was mentioned in “Illegal” pirate fanzine as something seen at PC 1988 show (or so it seems) by SSD of Cosmos. At present we know very little about the game … Continue reading →
Ok, its not a game as such, and a rather odd release from Martech planned back in 1985. Living Body was to be an educational game teaching about the body, based on a CH4 documentary. It was mentioned and confirmed … Continue reading →
A early licence of Nigel Mansell was planned by Martech in 1988, and the game was set to deliver where other racers failed. The game was actually reviewed in the Swedish Magazine ‘Soft’ Issue#3, May/June 1988. The game was definitely … Continue reading →
Nimitz was being produced by Martech back in 1988 (possibly started even further back in 1986!) and Andrew found the game whilst scanning through ACE magazine (September 1988). In the mention, the price was quoted as £9.99 for cassette and … Continue reading →
An early game by David Spicer, who went on to work with Nick Taylor on a host of C64 games. This was one of David’s first commercial projects for Martech, and it involved pizza deliveries and navigating around on escalators.Sadly, … Continue reading →
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