Games That Weren't^®

A tragic tale for this title, where Plotting was in fact fully completed and even reviewed by the top C64 magazines at the time. The game was planned for Cartridge release, to allow for instantaneous action and plenty of graphical … Continue reading →

A colourful single screen platform adventure game comes in the form of a oddly named game ‘Pluff’… Named after the blobby main character who has to go around various rooms collecting various objects, in classic JSW style action. The game … Continue reading →

A short entry for a Pong game that has been recovered by Csaba Virag, and what seems to be a German pong game that was potentially released and written by Matthias Goldmann. The game seems pretty complete, but we’re not … Continue reading →

Even after well over 20 years since the formation of the GTW64 digital archive, we are still often surprised by what turns up from time to time. In October 2021 is yet another surprise thanks to preservationist Ken Van Mersbergen. … Continue reading →

Confirmed as released and can be downloaded here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=125721 Case closed!

Now for something we wouldn’t normally focus on, but in this case, we are looking at a particular title which was to be commercial. With Project Argus, we were looking at a very ambitious SEUCK effort from Alf Yngve which … Continue reading →

A very big thanks to Mauricio Muñoz Lucero for highlighting this one for us. Proteus is basically Warhawk V1 which has recently surfaced thanks to the author of Warhawk digging out his unreleased software whilst he develops the new Warhawk … Continue reading →

Following on from the news about Project Argus, also comes Psykozone… The additional lost title from Alf Yngve which was planned for release back in 1994 by Psytronik Software. Again, as with Project Argus, Psykozone was unreleased due to Psytronik … Continue reading →

An early unofficial Mario game which was done in early 1983. At the moment , we do not know for sure if this game actually got released – but Jeremy Thorne’s other game – Mario’s Brewery was released in 1983, … Continue reading →

Puzzle Mania is a very early development by Karl Hörnell in 1984, way before his Player Software days. The game is a simple puzzle shuffle game and was created in BASIC. The title was found and preserved by Hedning and … Continue reading →

“A thrilling new adventure” proclaims the advert for QA! This text adventure was made available to the public at a very cheap price of £2.99, where you must go on a daring expedition to find the Mask of QA, the … Continue reading →

Our next game comes in the shape of a simple Uridium clone that was developed at Clockwize back in 1989, and according to the hidden messages in the code – was developed in only 2-5 days – and over the … Continue reading →

Yet another Clockwize title which has been saved from obscurity thanks to Dean Hickingbottom for passing on what is likely the only remaining copy of the game. This was a title due for release in 1990, and was coded by … Continue reading →

Quark was due to be released by PSS (Personal Software Services) but for some reason it doesn’t seem to have ever been released. Usually in these incidences you can look at the release list for a company and see that … Continue reading →

A short entry for a Quiz game that has been recovered by Csaba Virag, and what seems to be an Italian quiz game that was potentially released in 1988 by Di. Erre E. Futura and written by Ugo Trapanese. The … Continue reading →