Games That Weren't^®

This is an entry for a long lost Atarisoft conversion of Joust for the Commodore 64, due for release back in 1984. The game had made it across to a variety of platforms, but the C64 game was thought to … Continue reading →

Another Hungarian title which has been found by Csaba Virag, and which is a very simple game where you have to try and land on the boat. It’s quite glitchy and almost unplayable, but another curiosity saved for posterity. We … Continue reading →

A very short entry for now, for a simple text adventure game that has been recovered by GTW64 regular Csaba Virag and which doesn’t seem to be in Gamebase or elsewhere just yet. It is a German language text adventure, … Continue reading →

Another combined entry for a series of titles from K-TEK Software, which may or may not have been released. At present the following titles are missing: Stomp Ground – FOUND thanks to Allan Pinkerton, see downloads! Sky Diving – FOUND … Continue reading →

Case opened, and then closed! Completely missed that this game was fully complete and released last year. See Hedning’s comment below. https://csdb.dk/release/?id=187002 Apologies about that, but great news that this game is in fact complete and ready to play! Case … Continue reading →

One of the best blasters ever and it’s not too hard to see where the inspiration for Katakis came from. This is a blatant R-Type clone, featuring almost identical backdrops and power-ups, right down to the bolt-on/send-ahead drone that does … 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. Dynamix was a new puzzle game from Ash and Dave, published by Virgin Mastertronic back in … Continue reading →

Yet another SEUCK title which has come from the Zzap article which was ran back in 1992 time to search for good Megatape games. James Sweeny’s Klaboom effort was seen as being too simplistic, and one which didn’t offer too … Continue reading →

Kljuc (aka “The Key” in English) we believe is more of an educational program for children done by Suzy Soft. This game though is a rather simple Manic Miner style of game, with monocrome graphics – it’s got a nice … Continue reading →

A quick entry into GTW64 archives that was recovered by Csaba Virag in early 2022. This is a simple SEUCK effort that was to be sold commercially in Hungary back in the late 1980s by Emix Software, who had very … Continue reading →

Text adventure from Kayde who went into administration at the 26th August 1983. Did Spectrum releases, tried to do C64 and Vic 20 ones, which never seemed to surface. The game in the advert (Two adverts were submitted by Peter … Continue reading →

Soon after the success of getting Lethal released under the Alternative label, Neil Kendall got to work on a quick sequel to the game. For reasons currently unknown to GTW, the game never got released and was left sat on … Continue reading →

A short entry for something flagged up to us by Marco van Vlaanderen, who found this very obscure and rare RadarSoft title on an old tape. This was developed by Cees Kramer back in 1984, one of the founders of … Continue reading →

A new title saved thanks to the efforts of Csaba Virag, and another from Christian Szegedy, who also created the Waterloo game in our archives. It is thanks to Balazs Oszvald (Poison / Singular) for fixing up the title so … Continue reading →

Thanks to contributor Aki Sivula, we learnt about a recently recovered game by a chap called Pasi Hytonen – who after starting off by developing games for the Oric, before then moving onto the C64. His first project was a … Continue reading →

The thing I love about working on Games That Weren’t, is that even after over 20 years – we still get the odd surprise surface. Our next entry is a title by an author who created a VIC-20 game which … Continue reading →

Lunar Rescue has been missing for some time and has been missing from Gamebase 64 for some time. It was advertised by Mr Chip in around 1983/84 time and featured in an advert in Home Computing Weekly. A game of … Continue reading →

A year before the release of Crazy Comets, Simon and his friend John coded their own conversion of the arcade ‘Mad Planets’. It wasn’t brilliant compared with the two later versions lacking music by Rob Hubbard, but a reasonable attempt … Continue reading →