Games That Weren't^®

Another puzzler, but not actually that bad. If you remember and love Tilt by Genias, then you will like this game. More of the same, with slightly less than impressive graphics, but some samples (albeit scratchy) and a cool old … Continue reading →

Another title which has had plenty of work on the presentation to feel like it should be more complete, but at this stage there isn’t a huge amount to do. The game just has you having to avoid balls that … Continue reading →

A promising start of a sort of expanded Connect 4 game – where you must get 5 coloured tiles in a row – taking turns between two players to plot your move. The game preview kicks straight into a 2 … Continue reading →

Balls Of The Scrolling Thunder was a superb vertical scroller which was done for a SHUMPS competition we believe, and was never intended to be finished. However the game started out as a thread on Lemon 64, with the developer … Continue reading →

Even some 20 years on, there is still no slowing up of cancelled titles and previews being recovered and long may it continue as yet another title is unearthed. Base was due to be released back in 1986 by German … Continue reading →

A obscure title, with a great name! :) "Bastard" is unfortunately a bit of a bastard in its own right, because its so darn irritating to control your ship through this horizontal SEU.. Some old music mixed in with some … Continue reading →

Our next game comes in the form of a German platformer, where you take control of a guy with a gun who jumps through various obstacles while blasting tank like enemies. This is really all there is to it, and … Continue reading →

Interesting title for this GTW… This is the beginnings of a RPG style game where you control multiple characters. This is a very early preview, and it only seems to be one single screen with some very limited character interaction. … Continue reading →

A classic old style SEU, with naff graphics and some music ripped from Deep Strike. Apart from a few attackwaves, there is nothing much to offer in this game, apart from a bit of nostalgia. This kind of game was … Continue reading →

A nice old preview, which very much reminds me of the classic "Shadow Of The Beast". Featuring some nice graphics, with parallax scrolling features, the game has the standard building blocks of a good game. The only problem seems to … Continue reading →

Yet another unfinished project from Rasmus, and this time a neat looking early preview. This was mean’t as an experiment with multilayer parallax scrolling, which turned into a promising looking game. There are two previews of the game, both quite … Continue reading →

Our next entry into the archives is a fairly recent development from 2018 which sadly seems to have been abandoned. Beat Em Up (working title) is a set of test concepts where you have two players that can fight against … Continue reading →

Right, just to start but the System 3 link isn’t quite true, and we think this was based on the developers who were enthusiastically trying to produce games on the C64 and may have used the name in the hope … Continue reading →

A game sadly scrapped back in 1997. A shame really, as it looks and plays very well. Beep Boy puts you in the control of a very cute yellow geezer, who shoots his way past robots and other creatures to … Continue reading →

Behemoth was to be a kind of Armalyte clone for a budget label to pay some bills at Walking Circles. When questioned, the game’s developer Carleton Handley had the following to say: “Our C64 work from Domark dried up as … Continue reading →

It may come as something of a surprise, but it was recently revealed by Michael Ware (of Warhawk fame) that he was originally working on a conversion of Biff back in the day under his Proteus Developments label. Michael was … Continue reading →

A very early preview of a game consisting of a controllable fish which can swim around the one screen present here. Swimming off the screen makes you reappear on the opposite end. Apart from a little animated interaction with another … Continue reading →

An early 1990 puzzle game, of which there were a flood back then which were started and abandoned it seems. This was yet another. I’m not fully sure what you have to do, but the game is well presented and … Continue reading →