A very quick entry for a title which may well have been released, but is yet to be preserved. The advert describes the game as follows: “Invest your money in any of the 233 Companies-Commodities and attempt to gain a … Continue reading →
A bit of an interesting entry this time, and a game which had some brief involvement from Jon Hare in his pre-Sensible days doing graphics in various bit parts for games. Lone Wolf seems to be part of a series … Continue reading →
Thanks to Peter Weighill for highlighting yet another C64 title that seems to have got away. Lordlings of Yore was a strategy game that was released on the Apple II and seems to be available, but the Commodore 64 version … Continue reading →
Yet another C64 conversion of a Cinemaware game hits the GTW archives, and this time another classic in the form of “Lords of the Rising Sun”. Very similiar in style to Defender of the Crown, Lords of the Rising Sun … Continue reading →
The thing I love about working on Games That Weren’t, is that even after over 20 years – we still get the odd surprise surface. Our next entry is a title by an author who created a VIC-20 game which … Continue reading →
“Pursued by a band of cut-throat nomads, you stumble across an ancient map, showing the position of the mythical diamond mines, the lost caves. For almost a thousand years explorers and archaeologists alike have dreamed of the legendary lost caves … Continue reading →
Lunar Jetman was part of a huge classic genre on the Spectrum which spawned a few games by Ultimate featuring the Jetman character. The range of games however never quite made their way onto the C64. Spectrum users had Jetman, … Continue reading →
Lunar Rescue has been missing for some time and has been missing from Gamebase 64 for some time. It was advertised by Mr Chip in around 1983/84 time and featured in an advert in Home Computing Weekly. A game of … Continue reading →
A quick one again we’re afraid!…. very limited knowledge on this one, but mentioned in an interview with Antony Crowther, who mentioned that one of his first dips into commercial game programming was for a company called Superior Systems and … Continue reading →
Odin and Thor released a whole range of cool games, and this could have potentially been another. Lustiania had the working title of “Sunken Ship Game” and was being coded by Robbie Tinman, with music by his brother Keith Tinman, … Continue reading →
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