Games That Weren't^®

Before the classic times of Slicks and then Micro Machines, came games like Go Kart!, with some simple tracks and playability. Go Kart is quite primitive when compared with Slicks, and is certainly not as slick as Slicks. Unfortunatly the … Continue reading →

Many moons ago as the C64 was resurging through fanzines, Godflesh was announced to the world as a new beat-em-up in production by First Blood Entertainment in 1996. Previously doing a few other games, this sounded particularly exciting. Sadly nothing … Continue reading →

A hugely popular game from the Bitmap Bros on the Amiga and other 16-bit systems done way back in around 1991. Famous not only for the game itself, but for the music score for the game. In the year 2000, … Continue reading →

A popular game on the Amiga in its early days, the C64 saw a conversion preview released of the game. I don’t know much about the game itself, apart from its recievement on the Amiga, and it mean’t to be … Continue reading →

Ah… I remember going up to London one day and my dad buying me a copy of Your Commodore on the train journey up to keep me quiet. It happened to be the last ever issue as it happened, and … Continue reading →

Fans of games such as Lode Runner may have been familiar with a particular title released by Magic Disk, called "Golden Pyramids" – created by Harold Klink and Martijn Althuizen back in 1990/91. This was their first proper commercial release … Continue reading →

I always regret not growing up when the likes of "Ghosts and Goblins" came out on the C64, and being able to go out and buy the game as soon as it was launched… I could have possibly gone out … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that we know little about at this stage, apart from the developer that was behind it (who don’t seem to have done anything else on the Commodore 64), the musician and the basic premise … Continue reading →

Although eventually released by Audiogenic around 1992, this particular title wasn’t the same game which was first previewed in Zzap Issue #77. If you check the graphics, you’ll see there is a noticeable difference to the game which was released. … Continue reading →

Gravity is a neat looking two player preview, where you must take the control of two ships who have to blast each other to pieces on a still screen. The winner is the player who does not lose all their … Continue reading →

A mixture of Puzznic and Boulderdash in our next puzzle game within the depths of GTW. The plot is a little thin on this nice looking puzzler, with no instructions to explain exactly what to do. This looks a fairly … Continue reading →

An early preview from the days when the C64 was riding high commercially. Griffin could easily be thought of as a Rastan clone of sorts, and I say that as the main character is ripped from Rastan. However it isn’t. … Continue reading →

I remember first seeing Grubz about 10 years ago and being completely blown away. At last here was a fully fledged Worms clone on the C64 and looking every bit as good as the Amiga original. Sadly 20 years on … Continue reading →

Some of you may remember a little game from the covermount of Commodore Zone some years back, called Quota, a neat little game. Created by the talented Chris Young around 1989, Chris had previously been working on a game before … Continue reading →

A SEU that was being developed back around 1991 time and for years has been wrongly attributed to being a game due for release by Electric Boys Entertainment Software around 1995 time. It is likely that EBES picked up the … Continue reading →

Thanks to Witold Bryndza for the heads up for our next entry, which was to be a stylish Hangman game produced for Eagleware International in 1995 by Faith Design The game was to feature some very polished intros and graphics … Continue reading →