Chutes and Ladders is another long lost educational game to add to the GTW archives, and another which we know little about at the moment. It is assumed from the title that it is a kind of Snakes and Ladders … Continue reading →
Alligata produced quite a few classic titles and shot certain developers like Tony Crowther to fame. Towards 1986, and sadly Alligata was to be no more, and so it was laid to rest. In 2005, James Grayson loaned GTW a … Continue reading →
A quick entry which has been highlighted by Paul Fogarty – a C64 conversion of the 1985 arcade game by Jaleco. Paul recalls seeing an advert in a magazine around 1987/88 time (Commodore User or Disk User), and apparently very … Continue reading →
Not to be confused with the game City Fighter by Mastertronic, this was a simple arcade action game that was due for release on ZX Spectrum and C64 back in 1984 from Choice Software. Sadly only the ZX Spectrum version … Continue reading →
A short entry for now until we find out some more, but this was a text adventure game that was mentioned in a German C64 magazine called Aktueller Software Markt – where the title Classroom Chaos was announced as coming … Continue reading →
Cloak of death was to be a horror based text-adventure written by David Cockram with Argus Press and their Mind Games department. The description was as simple as “Starring Ghosts Galore, Spine Chilling, blood curdling, great gory graphics, Horror, Shock … Continue reading →
A very short entry for now regarding a game which was produced by Karl Hörnell during his Players Software development days. The game was called Clod Jumper, and would involve controlling a guy who could step inside a robot suit, … Continue reading →
Cobra was of course released on the C64 by Ocean Software in 1986, but Paul Hughes was a bigger fan of Joffa Smith’s awesome (and far better) Spectrum effort. So much so that just before joining Ocean, Paul started converting … Continue reading →
Collapsar was a cheeky little game which passed a certain resembalance to a classic Braybrook title. Not quite as polished as the original Uridium classic, it was the fact that it was a clone that scared potentual publishers off the … Continue reading →
A game which was advertised by The Learning Company in the manual for Bumble Plot, which was released. Described as “A brand new type of colouring book for young artists – children learn about colours, hues and matching. Ages 3-6” … Continue reading →
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