Games That Weren't^®

A year passed since the death of the commercial UK C64 scene, and Commodore Zone and Commodore Scene had taken over where C-Format and C-Force had once stood. Games were few and far between, but for those reading, each new … Continue reading →

Commando Kuwait was a game released during the time of the problems in the Gulf, and was heavily inspired by Commando Libya which was quite controversial. However, both Sami and Mikko lost interest in the game, and sadly Mikko was … Continue reading →

Following on from the shock of Lunar Jetman being converted to the C64, you may be surprised to learn that Cookie was also being converted. Not content with doing the music for the BBC version of Cookie, and also producing … Continue reading →

Not the same game which CRL were to release in the same year, but this was a game to be developed by Lynsoft it seems back in the day. The disk label came with "Cops n Robbers" on it, and … Continue reading →

Well, what can we say about this entry? Not a lot! – At present it seems we just have a teaser about a new game coming soon from Blue Chip, which from the looks of the graphics is a kind … Continue reading →

A kids learning game this time, featuring some weighing scales, where you have to add the numbers and perform the maths to balance the scales. Looking very much the thing was programmed in Basic, I can’t see a child being … Continue reading →

I honestly can’t see the point of this game, mainly because its so unplayable it sucks. You control a little blue blob which has to move through the maze without touching anything. But this is difficult in itself, as some … Continue reading →

A neat old school pacman clone, with disks replacing the ghosts and two Terminal City style men replacing pacman. The game is two player, and features some great music from Hunters Moon by Matt Gray. The graphics are nothing to … Continue reading →

All you will get so far with this game, is a picture and logo, with an arrow which moves, but can’t interact at all with the background. This is unplayable, and there is nothing to indicate what this game is … Continue reading →

When we couldn’t get Super Mario Bros on the C64, we instead had Great Giana Sisters or Terry’s Big Adventure, and they were lovely attempts at getting something similar. Of course, now we actually have a proper conversion of SMB … Continue reading →

Another rare sight from Apex Productions. While Creatures 2 was in development, there were a number of ideas thrown around, and one of them was this very demo. This was to be a Bonus Game within Creatures 2, where Clyde … Continue reading →

A surprise title next to put into the GTW archives – but one where sadly we may never see the full potential. Croc was to be a very very late title on the C64 from Ash and Dave – approximately … Continue reading →

Another puzzler, no instructions again… but looks as if you have to replicate a image on the right part of the screen. Graphically quite nice, the game is one of many puzzle games which saturated the C64 market. This one … Continue reading →

As we were looking into The Mermaid and the Crown, we chanced across a series of unreleased titles from Mountain Valley Software that was ran by Brian J Betts during the early-mid 1980s. This was one of five titles in … Continue reading →

Another previously unknown game which was to be released on the short-lived RetroSoft label back in 2005. This was a sort of Bejeweled clone on the C64, written by Jason Kelk – and was shaping up very nicely before it’s … Continue reading →

Crystalopis is a very neat looking Boulderdash clone with some additional features which could have made this a very fun title to play. UPDATE – Confirmed by Anonymous Contributor that the game was released as Crystal Fever a year later! … Continue reading →

Another game in the archives. Thanks to Richard Bayliss, we learn that the game preview appeared on Commodore Scene issue 13 cover disk and was made in 1995 by Violent Flower Software. All that seems to remain of it is … Continue reading →