You may be shocked to know, but there were two versions of Crystal Castles in development – both before the U.S. Gold release in later years. Atarisoft were doing an official conversion themselves back in the early 80’s of Crystal … Continue reading →
A separate and second prototype entry for what was intended to be the original AtariSoft release of Crystal Castles. Thanks to Mat Allen, we learn of the Atarisoft release thanks to Mat who documented the conversion briefly in Digital Press. … Continue reading →
Pretty gutted that I wasn’t able to play this one. Crystalopis is a very neat looking Boulderdash clone with some additional features which could have made this a very fun title to play. Ignoring the comments of the author not … Continue reading →
An interesting entry which ties in quite nicely with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes by the same company. Attack of the Mushroom People was to be based on one of those old really cheesy sci-fi movies which came out in … Continue reading →
A short entry for a Castle Software game that was advertised back in August 1983 in Compute! magazine (volume 5, issue 8). This has been highlighted thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog. We don’t know much about this game at … Continue reading →
Yet another Hewson based GTW enters the archives, this time with a C64 conversion of the Amiga game by Chris Hinsley. It is currently unknown what the game is about, though with the Metalic graphical references by the game’s graphic … Continue reading →
“The Rebellion’s Over! Your Mission: Terminate the Rebels of Hollerith. Your Role: You are the latest in Cyborg Technology. You are… a Cyber Cop & The Rebels are Ready for You.” That is the starting description of Cyber Cop, a … Continue reading →
According to Commodore User September 1988 in their PC Show 88 preview, Activision had secured the rights for Corland Technology’s Cyber Tank game. We did a bit of research, and found it. At present hte game is not yet full … Continue reading →
Now for something a little different for GTW, as this special entry is more a Intro That Weren’t than a Game That Wasn’t. As you well know, the Rowlands were two famous C64 developers, creating the fab Creatures series and … Continue reading →
Unfortunately there isn’t too much I can say about this game at this stage, due to it being all in Polish it seems. The game borrows character graphics from Aliens, and has a basic interface to do some kind of … Continue reading →
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