Documenting unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games.
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Ram Jam Corporation, famous for their adventure games and Dandy, teamed up with Mosaic to create their next game Twice Shy, an adventure game based on the Dick Francis novel about a computer program which predicts race results. The Commodore … Continue reading
Thanks to some excellent contributions recently from a chap called Mads, we are starting to learn about many more titles which are sort of related to Kele Line. In SOFT 1987 July, there was news that 4 new programmers had … Continue reading
Twilight Zone was to be a graphic adventure based on the popular TV series of the 80’s. The game was being produced and eventually got a release on the Amiga and on PC. The C64 version was coming (and listed … Continue reading
Thanks for the heads up from Jazzcat – Twin Ranger 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. Shortly after … Continue reading
From the creator of UXB, Twin Turbo was to be a conversion of the Spectrum and Amstrad game. It was an Outrun clone that I specifically remember seeing it as a kid, and wishing there was a C64 edition. Well, … Continue reading
Twister is probably one of the more historic GTW titles that we have come across, not for its gameplay, but for the troubles it caused around the time of its publicity… Firstly the working title for the game was “Mother … Continue reading
Sadly not all Games That Werent investigations turn out successfully, and many times we find out about an unreleased or cancelled game only to find out that whatever work was done on it is also lost to the ether. I … Continue reading
Two on Two sports is a Vollyball game from Epyx which was advertised in one of their catelogues in the early 80’s. In their adverts they strangely did drawn screenshots which looked fairly like the final game shots – so … Continue reading
Recently, Mark Hardisty has launched a website full of memorabilia in preparation for the launch of his new A Gremlin In The Works book. Part of this included source code files which were donated by Anthony J Clarke, which included … Continue reading
Ok, firstly we haven’t gone mad, but after the recent recovery of a Scooby Doo game in 2014, the same author Peter Ward informed us that he also worked on a official conversion of the Atari ST classic Typhoon Thompson … Continue reading
A surprising entry into the GTW archives. This was never really announced on the C64, until Chris West revealed that he was producing the C64 conversion for Domark of the famous Amiga title by Dan Gorlin In the game you … Continue reading
Released on the Atari, Vic 20 and TI-99/4A, this was an educational spelling game. The game was additionally advertised for the Commodore 64, but has never surfaced for reasons currently unknown. At present, the only known Romox game that has … Continue reading
Back in the 1980’s, Atarisoft were doing official conversions for the Commodore 64. Typo Attack was one of them! We learn of this conversion thanks to Mat Allen who has documented the conversion briefly in Digital Press. We hope to … Continue reading
Briefly mentioned in an issue of Commodore Cracker, there was a brief news item saying that the conversion of Uefa Cup Soccer for the C64 was looking seriously delayed. It never surfaced unsurprisingly, and was most likely vapourware. Note in … Continue reading
Selindek Software Studio (SSS) was a Hungarian Software house which did a few adventure games. Uj Vadnyugat was to be a trio of adventure games – two of which did make it to release back in 1989, but sadly the … Continue reading
1998-1999 Impressions Platform: PC Thanks to Niklas Lindholm, we learn of yet another lost football management game, this time with a game in the Ultimate Soccer Manager series, with the 2000 edition. Niklas has produced a brilliant video about the … Continue reading
An interesting title this one…. From what looks like a compilation, could possibly have been some kind of gaming olympics…. An Epyx olympics game with each event being a particular genre of computer game. Mentioned in the news pages of … Continue reading
Our next entry popped up via Twitter in late 2020 thanks to Mark Hardisty, who spotted ex-C64 developer Chris Hester posting up some photos of a game that he worked on. Ultrabulb seems to be a kind of Spindizzy clone, … Continue reading
Universal Military Simulator was a very advanced battle strategy game which was developed by Rainbird and was released on the ST and Amiga platforms back in 1988. For more details about the game, check out Richard Hewison’s excellent write up … Continue reading
A very short entry for a title believed to be by Jukka TapanimÁ¤ki. There is nothing playable, but found on some of Jukka’s disks was a short demo showing a selection menu to show different graphic segments. These seem to … Continue reading
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