It was 1993 and around the time that Jon Wells was doing Easy Lives for Commodore Force. Jon also had a nice little platform game being produced with some fantastic bitmapped graphics by Michael Smith. The game was ‘The Adventures … Continue reading →
The title may not suggest that it feels much for itself, but this isn’t a bad early preview of a Combat-style clone with space ships in a maze. Who Carez looks nice and sounds nice, and could have been a … Continue reading →
Our next entry we’re not 100% certain of just yet – was it intended as a proper game, or was this merely part of a demo that was released back in the day? This was discovered by GTW regular Csaba … Continue reading →
Also known as: Wilberforce: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
For this game, we go back to when the C64 was dying out, or at least Commodore Format was, and there was a little spurt of new games coming from various sources. One such game was ‘Wilberforce’, which looked like … Continue reading →
A neat looking game in similar vein to the classic "Shadow Of The Beast". Not much in this preview apart from some nice scrolling graphics, a good main character and some rather large creatures to try and kill. You scroll … Continue reading →
This is a RPG based game with a slight twist on your typical western games. Here in this particular game you have to buy land, tools, materials and then start building up fame and gold in the wild west. You … Continue reading →
Yet another film licence which was in development by Ocean Software back in 1990 also known as "Firebird". This was only really reported in the pages of Commodore Format, Issue 4, and nothing else was really heard of the game … Continue reading →
Unreleased and unknown for 30 years until being released as part of FREEZE64’s Christmas Special for subscribers in late 2020. Winning Streak was a simple betting game that was written by Jonathan Temples, who is better known as the graphic … Continue reading →
Yes, the game was indeed released – though there were a number of changes that had to be made during development, including many ideas dropped from the final game. In issue #77 of Zzap 64, they revealed that there were … Continue reading →
Thanks to Jazzcat for the heads up about this game, which was shown recently on the developer’s website. The game was a sequel to a Gauntlet clone which was actually released by Markt & Technik in 1989. This clone though … Continue reading →
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