Games That Weren't^®

Another game we’d better start looking for, and one which might be slightly harder for me being in the UK. Super C (Or Super Contra/Super Commandos) is a US only release it seems and one which had it been released … Continue reading →

Another title which could well be vapourware, and one which we may not need to do any searching. Super Cars 2 was never fully announced by Gremlin, though Games X magazine reported that the C64 version was coming soon and … Continue reading →

A strange little title with little known about it really. Super Daryna sounds like some kind of Mario rip off, but was infact a kind of RPG title coming to the C64 and Amiga platforms by the publishers of PP … Continue reading →

Thanks for the heads up from Jazzcat – Super Elite was a game that was mentioned in Danish Magazine IC RUN Nov/Dec 1988. It was briefly mentioned as being developed, from a newsletter from Starvision’s owner Ivan Sølvason. Sadly there … Continue reading →

Thanks to Wayne Wormsley for highlighting this one! Super Fighter was a PC based fighting game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Fighter) which became pretty popular, and so much so that a Demo group were looking to convert it to the C64. In an issue … Continue reading →

First reported in Zzap’s news page in July 1988, a third in the series of very popular Huey games by Cosmi and Paul Norman. The last sequel was released around 1985, so quite a large gap to decide upon a … Continue reading →

Around the same time that World Class Rugby was announced, Audiogenic also announced a follow up to Emlyn Hughes called “Super League Manager”. The game was mentioned in issue 7 of Commodore Format and was being programmed by Gary Bassett. … Continue reading →

Thanks to The Bird Sanctuary for highlighting this attempt at an official conversion of Super Mario Bros. This was to be a proper conversion, started in mid-1987 by Gary Liddon (code) and Gary Penn (graphics). They essentially recreated the entire … Continue reading →

No, this isn’t another Giana Sisters, this was the real thing.. Orpheus were planning to convert the loveable plumber to our C64 screens. Orpheus are greatly remembered for Electrosound, but after seeing their game attempt, ‘The Young Ones’, Mario on … Continue reading →

Thanks for the heads up from Jazzcat – Super Pinball was a game that was mentioned in Danish Magazine IC RUN Nov/Dec 1988. It was briefly mentioned as being developed, from a newsletter from Starvision’s owner Ivan Sølvason. Sadly there … Continue reading →

Yet another obscure game, this time by an obscure company called “Mushroom”… Who I don’t think lasted particularly long. As you can guess, Super Scramble is a clone of Scramble and according to the review in Home Computer Weekly, it … Continue reading →

Yet another strange one for the vaults of GTW… Originally it wasn’t known about until TGM shed some light. Originally this game was known from a strange set of advert slogans which were used in Zzap issue 40 back in … Continue reading →

Yet another Beyond Belief game which was planned and mentioned in the interview with Jim Scott. Information is a bit scarce, as all we currently know is that the game was to be a Super Wonder Boy clone where you … Continue reading →

Another coin-op conversion by the arcade conversion masters, Elite. This was to be a conversion of the popular arcade game, and was an ambitious one to do at that. Sadly although mentioned (albeit briefly) in Commodore Format, the game never … Continue reading →