Games That Weren't^®

A very obscure title which was mentioned and only had the title of “Sideways SEUCK game”. Now this was not long after the unreleased Breakthrough, and we assume that RR Software may have come up with their own tweaked SEUCK … Continue reading →

Brought to the attention of GTW by Commodore Zone magazine from their Star Wars special edition. “Empire Strikes Back” is (Surprise Surprise) based on the famous Star Wars film, but is not the official game, but a rather groovy looking … Continue reading →

Sadly I couldn’t get this one to run in Vice, so i’ve borrowed the screenshot from Gamebase 64 for now. I’m not entirely sure what the game is about, but it seems to be a single screen isometric puzzler which … Continue reading →

After what was an abysmal conversion, Electric Dreams were seemingly keen to make up for some reason. Instead of just forgetting about the conversion, a PCW show (Zzap issue 32) had reports from Electric Dreams about working on a new … Continue reading →

Enemy or NME was a side scrolling shooter that was graphically awesome according to project manager Darren Melborne. This was a game to be based upon the R-Type inspired mechanical/organic style of the day the title featured great graphics and … Continue reading →

A new GTW entered into the archives, kindly fixed up for GTW from the work disks of Harold Klink and Martijn Althuizen. Enemy Scout is both a sideways SEU and a sideway run-along game in its early stages of development. … Continue reading →

This very exciting sequel first surfaced around 2008, with two brilliant demos – showing a sequel which was very comparable to Metal Dust, but with out the Super CPU enhancements. The parallax scrolling in particular was beautiful, and the guardians … Continue reading →

Our next GTW entry comes in the form of a Slapfight style vertical scrolling shoot-em-up which was being produced by Paul Hughes. It was originally assumed to have been produced for Ocean, but we find that in fact the game … Continue reading →

A slightly bizarre name, which may well have just been a work in progress name set by Cory whilst developing a cool looking bi-directional vertical scroller. Erik does look pretty neat, even at this very early stage – and has … Continue reading →

A very much long awaited game which many a C64 fan can remember. 1991 saw the introduction of a new C64 game based on the famous German POW prison, “Colditz”. It was based on the popular board game from the … Continue reading →

Escape from London was to be a text adventure written in 2013 and released with a small production run by Darren Edwards as part of his new CBM64novo company, with a number of new titles being planned. During the project, … Continue reading →

Now its getting hard… as the reviewing gets bog down, I keep coming across countless shooters, some real stinkers but some like this which look the business for the future, but get thrown away like the trash. Escape From Mars … Continue reading →

Not much to say about this game apart from its little resembelence to "Bear George", with its falling apples. As you can tell, there is little information on this game which never got completed. All that remains currently is a … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title flagged up to us by Dan Warren, which is listed as being a Ubi Soft game – but from a bit of initial digging around, we couldn’t find any reference to it online apart … Continue reading →

A new GTW discovered by Jazzcat recently (plus fixed by Ian Coog), and passed onto GTW. This is a very early preview by Vibrants, which seems to be a gory but cute Op-Wolf clone of somekind. It’s hard to tell … Continue reading →

Our next entry into the GTW64 archives is a title that was recovered by Csaba Virag in early 2022. This is an early Hungarian puzzler that was created by Emix Software, who had very limited copies of their games made … Continue reading →

Exodus was to be a side scrolling shoot em up that owed it’s inspiration to Battlestar Galactica. A kind of cross between Defender and Uridium. The game was previously unknown by many until Darren Melbourne shed some light on the … Continue reading →