Games That Weren't 64^®

This early C64 game is a very promising sort of Xevious clone with futuristic backgrounds. It’s very glitchy in places, but it seemed to be shaping up nicely at the time. We guess that the game got leaked out, and … Continue reading →

Very aptly named is our next entry, known only as Prototype. It even comes with its own proper logo, so it wasn’t a working title either. And the preview is very much a prototype, with not a huge amount to … Continue reading →

A like a good shoot-em up, and Proxima is right up my street as a result. A sideways scrolling shooter with some nice parallax effects. It’s very early days, but you can shoot enemies and move around the looping level … Continue reading →

Game released as Fred The Fruiter. Case closed!

A quick entry for a new game that has been dug out by C64 musician JCH, which was a puzzle based game due out in the early 1990s, but was just never to be. JCH produced a number of tunes … Continue reading →

Quix is a new title for GTW which has been uncovered by Jazzcat. This is a title which has a familiar style of gameplay to a level out of Terminator 2, where Sarah Connor had to escape from an insitute. … Continue reading →

Next up is a nice early run and gun game with some good graphics – very much like a title you’d expect to see released by Players/Rack-IT as a budget title perhaps in 1990. There are about 4 levels in … Continue reading →

A very colourful single screen platform game. “Rainbow Bomb” certainly lives up to its name. Apart from the annoying colour scroll as you move, the game seems to be fairly playable at its current stage, though some jumps are hard … Continue reading →

Not sure how to take this one… Our friend from Hawkeye has been turned into a woman, and renamed "Rawhead" with our next preview. "Rawhead" is heavily based on Hawkeye, with a new map and a woman’s face at the … Continue reading →