Games That Weren't^®

I hardly need to describe the game I guess, as the title pretty much sums up the topic of this box shifting game. An unofficial conversion, as an official conversion had already been released – this seems to be some … Continue reading →

Sky-Jack is an odd platformer game, where at this early stage the player actually glides around, rather than jumps. I guess the preview was just to test some of the map and sprite mechanics, but little else at this stage. … Continue reading →

Project Sparkk is a small screen scrolling “navigate your ship through tight tunnels” style of game which was being developed in early 1988 and was no doubt for a software company of the time (though there is no suggestion of … Continue reading →

No doubt this isn’t the proper title of the game, but then it may not have had a name at all, as this was reported to have been coded in a day. It looks impressive for what it is, even … Continue reading →

Where did this game come from? It’s been around for about 30 years now, but it remained something of a mystery. This seemed to be an unofficial home conversion based on the 60’s film Fantastic Voyage. This German language game … Continue reading →

Another Dungeons and Dragon style game from an unknown source, which seems fairly good at this early stage, with a bit of movement – but little else of note at this stage. Author Todd Elliott got in touch with GTW … Continue reading →

On Table is a very simple looking Pacman clone from 1997 where you control a strange spaceship style sprite over a shaded background. It has some functional graphics, and a nice tune (which starts off sounding like Supremacy with its … Continue reading →

A very simple side way scrolling shooter which was apparently being done for Markt and Technik back in 1992. Your fighter is fixed to the bottom of the screen and has no real interaction at this stage, but there are … Continue reading →

This is a pretty neat looking game, where you control a prisoner who is trying to break out of prison. Here you must run along in a similar style to Rapid Fire and try and kill the guards who are … Continue reading →

Our next title is a conversion of an obscure 1984 Spectrum game by John Prince called Mr Wong’s Loopy Laundry. Not an official conversion, and one done some 24 years later by Peter Vass. The game seems pretty complete, but … Continue reading →