Games That Weren't^®

A game that was advertised in the US press as a mail order only title. It was described in the advert with you having to guide Elvin through 40 music filled levels, collecting treasures along the way. You would have … Continue reading →

Every so often, the C64 scene will spring up a few surprises and quite often its when an ex-C64 programmer decides to unleash the contents of one of their work disks. Dux is a shining example of this, and is … Continue reading →

Another title which was the casulty of the Zzap Megatape article , “How to become a Megastar”. This was not a SEUCK game, but a two player Bi-plane game in similiar style to Combat from a side on view. There … Continue reading →

The big question from the start was whether this game was really intended to be released by Codemasters back in 1991. We don’t think so, but it seems the development team may have been keen for them to do so … Continue reading →

A ace game, unofficially known as Katakis 2, with the programmer none other than Turrican god Manfred Trenz. Packed to the brim with amazing power-ps, great backdrops, epic soundtracks and incredible parallax scrolling, it’s a real shame this one never … Continue reading →

A quick entry, but this educational game was advertised early in 1984 in a few magazines as a list of games coming soon from Comm*Data / Channel Software. At the time we knew little about the game or what happened … Continue reading →

Thanks to the great efforts of Peepo and Tom Roger Skauren, many disks have been preserved that used to belong to the late Gary Sabin – who wrote the US Gold loading music and handled mastering duties. The disks were … Continue reading →

Eradicator 2 has been sitting on our Wanted list for some time now, but never had an entry in GTW until the game’s author came forward! The game was advertised in the back pages on a CDU compilation disk under … Continue reading →

A big thanks to Witold Bryndza who gave us the heads up about this long lost Timsoft which recently had an article published with a download link at C&A Fan. This was a game developed by a team called Artcore … Continue reading →

A short entry for what we believe is a missing conversion of Eskimo Eddie, and highlighted thanks to Vinny Mainolfi at FREEZE64 after doing a feature on the game. Vinny had covered the game Ice Busters, and found that there … Continue reading →

I was very surprised when GTW’s David Simmons contacted me in late May 2022 to see if I knew anything about a C64 conversion of Exorcist, a game that was released by Commodore on the C16/Plus/4 in 1984, programmed by … Continue reading →

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 →