Games That Weren't^®

A short entry to GTW64 which has been highlighted thanks to Richard Bayliss. This very strange entry is currently attributed to being a release by Zeppelin Games in 1992, but there is no evidence that it has seen a proper … Continue reading →

The Bandage was a Quill based adventure game which was written by Ruben Spaans in his early days. Ruben sheds more light on the game here (talking about the collection of adventure games he created): "Just saw "The Bandage" in … Continue reading →

Wow… well, there were always a few questions about the existance of some Ultimate games on the C64, but this one was never really mentioned as a possible conversion. But infact this rare Speccy game was being transferred over to … Continue reading →

A slightly naughty attempt at cashing in on the Douglas Adams title of the same name, Supersoft didn’t get very far when they were issued with a lawsuit to prevent a proper release of the game. Eventually, the game had … Continue reading →

A recent recovery in 2021 and lost for well over 30 years, The Mad Scientist was sent to several major software houses at the time in the 80’s, such as Kele Line – who seemed most likely to publish. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

It is thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni and BloodyCactus for bringing this game to our attention, and which may have been floating around for quite some time under our noses. The Mermaid and the Crown was a graphical text adventure produced … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that has been recovered in late 2020 by Simon Quernhorst. A title that was found in a disk box with a bunch of old disks. It seems that The Reactor (Der Reaktor) was a … Continue reading →

This was once a short preview of a nice little Super Mario Bros clone, until recently when the full version was finished off for a UK magazine. Here it is! Though not as closely linked as Giana was, “The Run” … Continue reading →

The Slippery was a Quill based adventure game which was written by Ruben Spaans in his early days. Ruben sheds more light on the game here (talking about the collection of adventure games he created): "They are simple text adventure … Continue reading →

A short entry for what was a late C64 game that was aiming to save the machine commercially, by a team called Parallel Logic. The game was created in the 3D Construction Kit and reviewed in Commodore Format issue 44, … Continue reading →

Not to be confused with CRL’s officially planned release, which was also cancelled. This was to be a completely different War of the Worlds game, but thankfully is one which has been out there all along. When recently trawling through … Continue reading →

Many of you may remember this game from the later days of Zzap64, created by Kevin Murphy, whom originally tried to sell the game through mail order. Well, before that, Thrusterball was sent to various big games companies of the … Continue reading →

Thunder Hawk is a vertically scrolling shooter built by Steve Dunn, who did a number of games on the C64, including Call Me Psycho. The game has been around the web for a while now, listed as being an Atlantis … Continue reading →

A very big thanks to Mauricio Muñoz Lucero for highlighting this one for us. Tidemarsh is a game which has recently surfaced thanks to the author of Warhawk digging out his unreleased software whilst he develops the new Warhawk game … Continue reading →

A quick entry into the GTW64 archives thanks to Csaba Virag, which is an Hungarian language text-adventure game called Time Quest. The game was written by Wörösoft, and was in the legacy of Hungarian based thrash style text games like … Continue reading →