Games That Weren't^®

Following on from Lost Robot 2 is another preview of a game which seems to have not quite made it. Markt & Technik are believed to have been the people who would have published the game, as the name is … Continue reading →

A surprise entry now for GTW64, which was to be an obscure conversion of an obscure Amiga/ST game called Fireblaster, which seemingly was released in 1986 and then re-released by Prism Software around 1989. Jason Kelk was the developer of … Continue reading →

Wow, the list of unreleased Codemasters titles for the Commodore 64 continues to grow, and grow it does with the inclusion now of Firehawk. This time a game again by Finlay Munro which was mentioned recently in a conversation. He … Continue reading →

Another game from Twilight duo, Harold Klink and Martijn Althuizen. This time we have a set of very promising space SEU demos which were a new development by Twilight which sadly were cancelled early on. These were given a game … Continue reading →

A quite full preview of another puzzle game which I can’t quite make head or tail about. The game is quite simplistic, with its simplistic graphics and layout, but as for the gameplay, I cannot comment, so can someone else? … Continue reading →

In the early 90’s, the 16-bits were greeted by a new style of adventure game with a character not far off from that of Impossible Mission. Another World and Flashback by Delphine were two of the biggest breakthrough’s of their … Continue reading →

Found within the Gamebase archives recently, this is an early preview from 1992 of yet another abandoned game, and one which seems to be a potentially interesting twist on breakout/pong. Flex isn’t anything to write home about, but has a … Continue reading →

Ok, i’m at the risk of stretching things a bit too much – but I thought it would be a nice inclusion into the archive to show a slightly different preview of Flimbo’s Quest. Ah well, sod it! :) This … Continue reading →

One of the big surprises of working through Cory Kin’s disks, was the sheer amount of bits and bobs found that were written by Carl Coffey – who was the man behind Wheelies and the aborted Soldier of Fortune. Flok … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for a game that was submitted by Roy Widding for the GTW archives. This is a cool unfinished game that is based on Flyboy arcade machine from 1982 by Kaneko. The aim is simply to kick … Continue reading →

Not likely to have been anything official, someone took it on themselves to try and do a conversion of the PC football simulator of the same name and seemed to have a good crack of it. There seems to be … Continue reading →

If you hadn’t of guessed from the title, then FootMan is a Pac Man clone which was due for release around 1988/1989, and was a conversion of the Amiga game by Incognito. Although seeming to get quite far with some … Continue reading →

Fox was a game being produced by Lucas Pope and Pete Gonzalez back in 1995-1996, and was to be a sort of cross between (obviously!) Fox Fights Back and Turrican (In terms of game style) and also includes a very … Continue reading →

It has been established that the Freaky Fish game floating around on the web … http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=2913&d=18&h=0 … is infact a preview of a game which was going to have a later version created and released. Would it have been commercial, … Continue reading →

Freebooter was a strategy title that was in production by Paul Clansey, just before he started working at Active Minds. It was actually submitted as a playable demo to EA at the time. The game had you running programmable robot … Continue reading →

An early preview from 1987 this time, and a fairly simple Sprint clone with hi-res graphics. This was at a time that Super Sprint was making its debut on the C64 from the arcades, and was looking a lot glossier … Continue reading →

A promising early sideways scrolling shooter by Paul Green that I remember well from the screenshots put online and because my friend Jason Kelk was doing some graphic work for it too, along with Andy Vaisey. After over 10 years … Continue reading →