Games That Weren't^®

A very strange little preview this one.. It is infact an early preview of Orcus, with hacked sprites from Mr Heli and other games. It’s not known if this was actually going to be turned into a proper full game, … Continue reading →

The original Knight n Grail was a fantastic title which blew many people away when it turned up. One of my favourite games of recent times with some excellent twists and turns. When this sequel preview turned up, I of … Continue reading →

Ah, the days when Ocean churned out many a movie/tv licence which was utter tripe eh?… Well, 1986 was a popular year mainly for some real stinkers such as Highlander, V and also Knight Rider. All of which were heavily … Continue reading →

A neat little title from Simon Quernhorst, which is themed on Chess, but has a much more simplistic aim in this logical game. Although starting to take shape back in 2014, the game was abandoned due to other projects and … Continue reading →

I should have added this to the GTW64 archive ages ago, but for some reason did a separate site post. What we have here is a rather different looking Knuckle Buster game on the C64 by Mat Sneap. Luckily in … Continue reading →

This is an awesome Kung Fu Master clone, with massive and brilliantly animated main sprites. The background flickered to give extra colours, and some of the previews featured some awesome sound effects to match a great promising preview. It feels … Continue reading →

Even after over 25 years of running the archive, we still encounter many surprise findings which were never known about – and which is a huge part of the fun of running GTW. Contributor Retroboy got in touch in early … Continue reading →

And we thought that only Platform Mania and Colditz V1 were the titles we were looking for from Ste Pattullo. Well, we were wrong, and Labyrinths was yet another title which never got to see the light of day, sadly … Continue reading →

As the C64 was dying, Jon Wells was out there trying to save it. This was one of Jon’s big efforts to try and save the scene, and bring one final Last Ninja to the C64. Jon created a series … Continue reading →

This game was found to be fully released and can be downloaded from here. http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=4298&d=45&h=0 Many thanks to Ramos for this one! Case closed!

Thanks to Jakob Voos, we are presented with a game which had never been seen before and was exclusive to GTW back in early 2000 time. Unfinished and previously unreleased until now. Jakob sent GTW a game called Lazytech. A … Continue reading →

Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since the release of this preview. I remember it very well when it first came out, and being a clever twist on Pacman, where you control a ghost instead. Lovely looking graphics and … Continue reading →

A terrible preview, with awful graphics and no playability. There is a simple grey blob thing at the bottom of the screen, with some naff score bits on the left, and nothing to do. It’s not known what this game … Continue reading →

A wonderful sounding project was announced to the C64 world when Legend Of Kyril was being planned for release by Crystal Software. A potentially stunning RPG game in the style of Johnny Reb and other RPG’s was on its way … Continue reading →

Legendary Deed is another powerful RPG game in similiar vein to those created by US Gold around the same time. The preview is unplayable, but shows a series of screens which build up the game. Graphically, all looks nice and … Continue reading →

Information had been a little bit vague on this game. It was uncertain for a while if this were meant as a joke, or in fact was a real Lemmings conversion attempt. All there was, was a simple attempt at … Continue reading →

Liberation was a game similar to Turrican, and was in development for quite some time by Profile Entertainment. Danish based Profile Entertainment are also known under their demo name, Camelot. The game had a brief mention in the pages of … Continue reading →

A nice little single screen western OP Wolf style shooter, with the added ability to choose your route of travel. This game was also slightly similiar in some aspects to Tusker. There was to be some puzzle solving elements in … Continue reading →

Liberator was to be part of a two game bundle along with a game called Sarumax (which eventually turned into Elven Warrior and was released by Players Software). The game itself was a sort of Hunters Moon meets Solar Jetman, … Continue reading →