Games That Weren't 64^®

Interceptor 2160 AD was a superb sounding game which boasted 4-layer parallax scrolling Defender/Choplifter/Falcon Patrol/Sanxion style action. Produced by Marc Walters, sadly nothing more than a scrolling demo was ever created, and nothing playable ever surfaced.. Marc tells GTW that … Continue reading →

International Karate Deluxe was well on the way from multiplex and sprite master Archer Maclean back in the day. The third instalment in the series had a 2-3 screen background to provide more space for the area of combat. Also … Continue reading →

Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni for making a good point that we should probably include the first edition of Internationl Karate in the GTW64 archives, which should have featured graphics by Jon Hare. International Karate was meant to have been one … Continue reading →

Rugby sims have always been underrepresented in the computer gaming market. Football sims have dominated Europe, while in the USA its American Football that has dominated. It doesn’t help that the rules of rugby are awkward to translate fluently to … Continue reading →

Due to come out on the C64 in 1989, International Soccer Challenge was one of several games due for release by Microstyle in the 1989/90. ISC was also released on the Amiga, Atari ST and PC platforms, but the C64 … Continue reading →

Another fleeting reference to an unreleased C64 game here, this time found in Zzap Issue 13 (Page 92, no less!). The text is quoted below: It has a broadly Ultimate type look and feel, however the graphics are stronger and … Continue reading →

Iron Maiden is another game which was originally planned by EBES when the C64 was dying out commercially around 1994 time. The game was mentioned in a note file from around 1995 where Russ talks about various games which EBES … Continue reading →