Games That Weren't^®

A new game which was recently revived by the game’s author, after seeing on a disk for some 26 years. Fire Breath was a game inspired by Bubble Bobble and Creatures, created in 1990 by Erik Hooijmeijer. The game was … Continue reading →

A surprise finding on the disks of Darren Melbourne, with an unofficial and early Mario game from 1983 which has been lost for some time! At the moment , we do not know for sure if this game actually got … Continue reading →

The quality of the game certainly seems to be at a level of one that would have been pitched around the various software houses at the time, and wasn’t a SEUCK game by any standards. Flik Flak was a good … Continue reading →

A curious little puzzler promoted in its review from Zzap 64. Flippit had you turning squares one at a time in order to reproduce a given pattern. Of course, life wasn’t that simple, as each square you turned also affected … Continue reading →

Our next entry into the GTW archives comes thanks to Francesco Milioni, which was due for release on a tape compilation to be released in Italy, but was too late due to the declining C64 market. Flock is a clone … Continue reading →

A great little game which never really seemed to fit into the category it was placed under. The game strangely was situated within Binary Zone PD on one of their PD games disks. A game of commercial quality and addictive … Continue reading →

"Fly Harder" is a graphically superb Thrust clone. Gorgeous screenshots were plastered in C-Format and C-Force and got many excited about its release. Even though it was based on Thrust, it was closer to the NES classic “Solar Jetman”. With … Continue reading →

FSS Liberator is an interesting title which was given a large advert treatment by BigK magazine in around 1985. Sadly, the scan we viewed couldn’t give us the textual details clearly enough, but we managed to find some credits and … Continue reading →

To be honest, this entry into GTW64 has been a little overdue. Paint and Create was part of a new “Fun School Special” educational range which was introduced around 1993 time across all the main formats by Europress Software. Many … Continue reading →

Marco (Exile) and Peter Weighill had both been helping GTW with various scans, when they came across a rather interesting finding inside a game cover, and in a magazine respectively. Fungus 2 was indeed in production on the C64, and … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that did eventually see release, but was actually intended to be a game with a completely different name and publisher. Pirates in Hyperspace was Ash and Dave’s first commercial C64 game, published by Alternative … Continue reading →