Games That Weren't^®

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 →

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 →

One of the harder things to ascertain when investigating a potential GTW is sorting out those games that are simply ‘Missing in Action’ from the genuine ‘Games That Weren’t’. Wizard’s Dominion is one such game. A Dungeons & Dragon’s game … Continue reading →

Now for a start, we’re not 100% certain if this was intended for release on the actual Hi-tec label, as you will find out below. Wonderball has been floating around for a while and is a simple platform game with … Continue reading →

A mini battle game, and even though it looks like a type-in game, its quite addictive in its own little way. It’s somekind of Combat clone, with a larger play area and smaller characters. It’s somehow very playable, just by … Continue reading →

World Boxing Champ was a strategy based game to be released by Visualize back in 1994 and was advertised in their 1994 catalogue. But actually, it should have been released by Cult Software back in 1992. Cult had decided at … Continue reading →

Worron is a rather bizarre little title, which was never advertised, and only came about thanks to Richard Paynter getting in touch to shed some light on the title. Rick signed a contact with Firebird in October 1987 to complete … Continue reading →

Xanagrams is a word game of sorts with over 5000 permutations. Basically a scrabble clone :) Patrick Furlong confirmed details of the game by mentioning that it was one of the 12 games given away with the Amstrad 464 so … Continue reading →

NOTE: This game is (c) Hanna Barbera, and is distributed freely without any profit as part of a digital preservation project. With thanks to David A Palmer productions (http://www.gamesproducer.com/) Yet another game that was sadly to be caught up in … Continue reading →

A lovely surprise in June 2020 was the release of a previously unknown Mr Chip game called Zambeezi, which was recovered by Genesis Project from an old disk of one of their members, Jorge Rodriguez (aka Black Beard). Many thanks … Continue reading →

Ok ok, yes we know that Zamzara was infact released, but light was shed recently on a rather different game which was shaping up originally by Jukka Tapanimaki. I really love this game, first played on Commodore Format’s powerpack 9… … Continue reading →

As we draw to the end of the games, i’m left with yet another puzzler. The aim is to turn all the white squares (ON) to yellow squares (OFF). If you click on a selected square (regardless of if it … Continue reading →

This interesting dual scrolling title was written by the brother (?) of musician Nigel Grieve, but didn’t seem to have any company attached to it.  Was it intended for Hewson maybe? Well, thanks to contributor Gaetano Chiummo, it has been … Continue reading →

A small entry for a SEUCK effort which never quite got to see the light of day, produced by Andrew Rodger (famous for Terminus and many tunes on the C64, such as Arnie 2). The game was completed, though never … Continue reading →