Our next game in the GTW64 archives is a title that was being developed in Norway during 1988 by the developer of Timecruncher, Matcham. Datormagazin did a feature on a copyparty that was being ran in Stjørdal during October of … Continue reading →
A game that was due to be released from Ronald Mayer, who was an Austrian programmer of a large number of C64 games in the 80’s. In a 2015 interview, Ronald reveals that Maze Patrol was to be his first … Continue reading →
A surprise finding thanks to the guys at Genesis Project (in particular Hedning, Six and Whisper), which is a very obscure text adventure game that was written in 1984 for Martin-Art. Previously the game was only known to exist for … Continue reading →
Meantime was a new RPG being developed by Interplay for the Apple II and PC, with a view to porting the Apple II version to the C64, like with Wasteland which was released in 1988 by Electronic Arts. The plot … Continue reading →
Mega Games was infamously a batch of very exciting games that were once in production for the c64 and Spectrum, and were said by the press (and of course Imagine themselves) to be very ahead of their time, with some … Continue reading →
A very short entry for a title which may have been something advertised in early magazines. The game was to be released by Playsoft and seemed to be part of a series of 3 games in total which includes Infer, … Continue reading →
Incredibly rich from his exploits in Manic Miner and partying away in Jet Set Willy, the third instalment was apparently to see our intrepid hero up against the bane of the nouvelle riche, the tax office!… The actual name for … Continue reading →
A new and previously unknown game released into the Games That Weren’t archives with Memory Man, a game found by Csaba Virag on a series of disks. The game was developed in Hungary and doesn’t seem to be currently in … Continue reading →
After scanning through some inlays and bits, Andrew Fisher came across an advert for a new Players game called “Metal Army”. The game was described as follows: Only one marine stands between the Metal Army and their evil plans of … Continue reading →
A great looking preview by all means. Metal Wars features bitmap scrolling, and looks really nice and detailed in this SEU. A lot like the graphical qualities of IO by Doug and Bob. The preview which has been out there … Continue reading →
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