Games That Weren't^®

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 →

This was planned as a late release for the Trojan Lightgun, featuring Archery as the theme. Featuring some fair graphics and additions to make it playable for joystick users in this preview, it isn’t too bad. It’s certainly not the … Continue reading →

This game features the adventures of Leroy, a Lego character in a lego based world. The graphics are very cartoony, and very faithful to lego (No.. not blocky before you say!). Levels are portrayed over a horizontal push scroll landscape. … Continue reading →

This is a bit of an obscure title which was never really mentioned in any magazines, that is apart from Games X magazine in 1991. This game was a Wonderboy 3/Alex Kidd clone done by the team behind Escape From … Continue reading →

Weird little platform game featuring a cute looking duck (Or what is supposed to be a duck anyway). You collect various little gems and jump over holes in the ground, and that’s currently about it in this preview. It’s currently … Continue reading →

Little Hero is a simple platformer, in the style of Giana Sisters and in a very early phase it seems. At present the demo which has been floating around seems to just be a quick test of the graphics, with … Continue reading →

Unknown to many people apart from those at Ocean Software, Liverpool FC was to be also developed by Ocean Software in the early 90’s, and the team were hard at work on the title. It seems Grandslam must have kicked … Continue reading →

An incomplete game from the 80’s, similar to Ghost and Goblins and Shadow Of The Beast, with functional graphics. Living Dead puts you in the control of a skeleton who roams around a ghost town, but roaming around for what … Continue reading →

More from the creative mind of Duncan Kershaw – this time an impressive clone of Super Locomotive. It was more based on Tony Crother’s Loco game than the arcade original though to Duncan’s own admission. This was being done roughly … Continue reading →

It has been found that thanks to one of our visitors, Helfried, that this game was in fact published by a German magazine called "Magic Disk Classic". The full game can be found on Gamebase here: http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=4430&d=18&h=0 This entry is … Continue reading →

A sequel to the wonderful Heavenbound game by Cosmos Designs was in production for Cherry Software in 1996. It caused a bit of a storm in a software drought era for the C64, promising some great new gameplay, and with … Continue reading →

A classic 3D maze game, cloned again on the C64. Sadly, apart from a modern looking font, the actual game is not progressing any further than its 80’s counterparts. Graphically its very simplistic, and overall the gameplay is very simplistic, … Continue reading →

An awesome little sequel to Lost Robot, which was released on a German disk magazine back in the early 90’s. Lost Robot 2 aimed to push things much further with a rather nifty little game. The game is a sideways … Continue reading →

Yet another Donkey Kong clone was planned for the C64, but this time an attempt to update the classic theme. The idea of the game was to have the first 4 levels based around the original Kong game, with the … Continue reading →

Lunar Jetman was part of a huge classic genre on the Spectrum which spawned a few games by Ultimate featuring the Jetman character. The range of games however never quite made their way onto the C64. Spectrum users had Jetman, … Continue reading →

M45 is an early icon driven game by the late Jukka Tapanimäki and was released recently by Triad. The title is one of Jukka’s early developments before the likes of Zamzara and Netherworld came about, and sadly hasn’t been fully … Continue reading →

A quick entry for a very cool looking single screen car game, where you simply have to avoid each other for as long as you can whilst the game speeds up. This version was produced for a party back in … Continue reading →

Yet another Hewson title to add to GTW64, thanks to Richard Bayliss for highlighting. This game has actually been around in the C64 archives for some time now, since it was cracked pretty much back in the day. The good … Continue reading →

We guess the Sega logo in the background was no link for this title, which is a simple single screen game where you shoot at Mafia lurking up in building windows. There is little to do apart from this with … Continue reading →