Twister is probably one of the more historic GTW titles that we have come across, not for its gameplay, but for the troubles it caused around the time of its publicity… Firstly the working title for the game was “Mother … Continue reading →
From what looks like a compilation, Ultra Games was some kind of gaming olympics title. An Epyx-style olympics game, with each event being a particular genre of computer game. Mentioned within the news pages of Zzap 64, the following 9 … Continue reading →
A short entry for a new GTW that was flagged up by Fabrizio Bartolini. This time a horizontal scrolling shoot’em up for the Commodore 64 created by Jonathan Wheatman. The game, according to an interview with Jonathan, was written when … Continue reading →
A very early entry for a game we don’t even know the title for yet. This was a title mentioned by Geoff Phillips as being in development at Orpheus around 1986 time. It was farmed out to a set of … Continue reading →
Uridibad was released onto Compunet by Sensible Software back in 1986, and what seems like a joke at the expense of Uridium – was actually going to be a full game. Jason Kelk posed the question to Jon Hare via … Continue reading →
Victory! is a vertical push scroll game where you must control a tank and blast through various obstacles. It got to a fair stage of progress and was shaping up pretty well. The game was started in 1986 by Ian … Continue reading →
The unknown Vietnam game was another title which never was from Orpheus Software, and was a wargame that tried to cash in on the many Vietnam films that were around at the time. It apparently may have come from Tim … Continue reading →
Virgin Atlantic Challenge was to be an arcade game based on Richard Branson’s attempt to break the transatlantic speed record in a boat. So, not the same game which was released later on with the rather cool Rob Hubbard tune. … Continue reading →
Wizard War is a fantasy strategy game, designed and created by Lloyd Johnson with additional input from Jim Baen. The game was apprently released with an exclusive story written by Fred Saberhagen based on the game. You controlled an army … Continue reading →
As well as Superman – The Game, it seems that First Star Software had big plans to do more comic based titles afterwards. In an issue of Family Computing Magazine, it was reported that after the release of the Superman … Continue reading →
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