Games That Weren't^®

Vitrus sounds like a puzzler, but its nothing of the sort – and is actually a sort of Fly Harder/Thrust clone, where you must guide your ship through some tight caverns. It’s pretty unforgiving at this early stage, but it … Continue reading →

"Voice" is another game in its most early stages, featuring a few platforms and some cute objects to collect. You are a snail like creature, which has the ability to drop some bombs. These bombs create an awesome explosion which … Continue reading →

It is with much regret that I am adding Paul Koller’s VVVVVV into the archives, which seems to have been abandoned now with a final preview released in 2017 that was its last state from back in 2011. Paul has … Continue reading →

Trying to improve on their abysmal "Micro Machine" game, Patriot Games tried their luck with "Wabbit". Sadly, this just makes things worse. With a simple hi-res bunny which jumps across the screen (Though animating nicely), while you take aim and … Continue reading →

Not too much to say about this title just yet.  War Deal has you controlling a jet which can drop bombs on boats (with a cute “Ouch!” speech bubble), but seems to be mostly just advertising that the game is … Continue reading →

Yet another title for the archives which was in a very different state compared to the final game at one stage. Thanks to Dr Strange/Atlantis for highlighting this title, which has actually been doing the rounds for some time. This … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that was recovered by Genesis Project in early 2019 from the work disks of scener Scrap. He stated to GP that this was a preview of a game that would never be finished. It’s … Continue reading →

A simple and quick preview, but one which has been done very well and features a sort of wizard that you have to guide to the end of a room, avoiding some sort of raindrops. We believe that this was … Continue reading →

Welcome to hell is a game which does not have a huge amount of information available currently. It was found on the preserved disks of the late Jukka TapanimÁ¤ki with no real context or information about it. We assume that … Continue reading →

The title may not suggest that it feels much for itself, but this isn’t a bad early preview of a Combat-style clone with space ships in a maze. Who Carez looks nice and sounds nice, and could have been a … Continue reading →

A silly name for a simple two player game (or the beginnings of one) where you must thrust around and destroy each other. The preview features some hi-res graphics and working ships, but no real interaction between the two just … Continue reading →

A C64 conversion of the popular TV game show. While promising to look at, the preview does not actually do much apart from ask a question about if you like the game or not. This just repeats over and over, … Continue reading →

Our next entry we were not 100% certain whether it was intended as a proper game, or merely was part of a demo that was released back in the day. This was discovered by GTW regular Csaba Virag on an … Continue reading →

A neat looking game in similar vein to the classic "Shadow Of The Beast". Not much in this preview apart from some nice scrolling graphics, a good main character and some rather large creatures to try and kill. You scroll … Continue reading →

Wildfire is an ace horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up in the Armalyte mould. Unfortunatly, once the game was programmed, it was sent to a games publishing company in Germany which was also part of a Cracking crew. Therefore it was cracked and … Continue reading →

When backing up disks from Darren Melbourne in December 2015, we found a preview called Wildfire, which we believed to be an early preview of the very same game by Starlight. Well, we were wrong! Wildfire was actually produced in … Continue reading →

Thanks to Jazzcat for the heads up about this game, which was shown recently on the developer’s website. The game was a sequel to a Gauntlet clone which was actually released by Markt & Technik in 1989. This clone though … Continue reading →

I remember all the hype when Worms was discovered by Amiga Format after they ran a competition for creating a game in Amos. The classic tank game with elevation and speed control had been turned into a fun multiplayer game. … Continue reading →