Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. Midwinter was a graphic text adventure due for release from Channel 8 in September 1984. Although due for release on … Continue reading →
The premier issue of the German C64 magazine GO64!, issue 03/97, featured an article about the at that time quite unknown game producing crew, PROTOVISION. Their first game, Stroke World, was announced there, as well as the famous SuperCPU shoot’em … Continue reading →
Don’t laugh, but there was infact going to be a licenced game based on the Milk Tray adverts! It’s true, and none other than C64 Audio legend, Chris Abbott, was to be behind this game, musically at least! At the … Continue reading →
A short entry for now on what was likely to have been a C64/C128 release back in the day by Infocom. This was to be a sequel to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and was in development and design … Continue reading →
Mind Runner was a game by a friend of Kevin Murphy, who has many GTW’s listed in the archive such as Thunderzone. This was a game by his friend, Jason Steele (Not the same guy who did Hunchback for Ocean) … Continue reading →
Also known as: Mind Possessing Aliens From Hyperspace
Yet another Demonware game which appeared in the Early Warning scanner pages of Commodore Format. With a rather interesting title, it sounded like something quite special. Nothing was really known about the game, but Games X magazine did a sneak … Continue reading →
A quick entry to cover part of a series of games which DK’Tronics were looking to release in late 1984, early 1985. A news item in the December 1984 edition of Personal Computer Games suggested that following on from a … Continue reading →
Zzap 64 were always a magazine to have a laugh at times, and they did it in style with one particular April edition of Zzap! 64 with this “amazing” looking game introduced one day back in 1986. Here are the … Continue reading →
Yet another Edge title. The game was advertised in magazines such as CVG in 1986, and was brought to GTW’s attention thanks to Lee Theasby who kindly provided the advert scan. The game was an adventure RPG which was in … Continue reading →
It was thought for many years that “Miner Willy Meets The Taxman” and “Megatree” were the same game, and that the first title was the working title for “Megatree”. Well, after attending a Q/A session with Matthew Smith at a … Continue reading →
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