Cancelled, Unreleased and Lost Video Games for the Commodore 64 Since 1999
Another GTW64 update which features a new entry thanks to Mark Wilson, and a set of tunes intended for the game. In addition – Arbitrator has had a set of tunes submitted by Mark which were also intended for the game.
Finally Ian Coog has provided SID tune rips for both Castle Boy and Starburst (as well as Arbitrator just moments ago), which we have added to all entries.
Thanks to Mark Wilson, the GEMS compilation pack has been digitally preserved, which includes 2 previously unreleased full games and also a far more complete version of Starburst (with previously unheard tunes by Andy Brown). This update also includes a new entry and a few updates thrown in to boot!
The latest issue of the free C64 fanzine, RESET has been released, which features a new regular Games That Weren’t section. This month covering Genesis’ Spellcast game.
Check out the magazine and download from here:
More collated updates from GTW64, with the following:
Flight Deck 2, The Light Corridor
Aurum, Crossbow, Habitat, Joust, Questerious, Sonic The Hedgehog, Star Tech Games, Stargate, Xamitlu
Keeping up the trend, some more new entries and various updates have been added.
This includes news of another Psygnosis conversion that never was, an interesting Club Light game, a selection of John Vanderaart entries, some newly recovered Duncan Kershaw games, confirmation that a cartridge version of Spy Who Loved Me did exist, David Doll speaks to GTW64 about the Virus April fools and much more. Enjoy!
Anarchy, Aurum, Club Light adventure, Duncan Kershaw games, Gravity, Playboy – The Game, Smakeloos, The Spy Who Loved Me C64GS,
Castle Boy, Crossbow (William Tell), Here and there with the Mr Men, Space Hop, Starburst, Stratagos, Toki V1, Virus
Our first update for 2014 includes the following:
See the “Updates made” link at the top of each page for what has changed.
Ballfever, Bugs Bunny, Darksyde, Here and there with the Mr Men, Lethal Xcess, Spellcast, Star Tech Games, Your Computer Software Exchange
It is that time of the year again, and another bumper update which has been building up. The big difference this year was the lack of a backlog, so all the materials here have been the result of further digging and disk preservations. We hope you enjoy it all, and there will be more in 2014 for sure! Merry Christmas!
Thanks to Cory Kin and the loan of his work disks, we have found a number of full games which are previously unseen
Flok, Jet Combat, Master Blast
Thanks to Richard Smedley, CDU Games Disk 6 has been fully recovered and preserved – preserving 3 more previously unseen full games: Outbreak, Mirror Image and Mystery Man
Mostly thanks to Cory Kin’s work disk loan, a large amount of previously lost game previews (a lot of Cory’s own work) have been salvaged and preserved:
IndeflataBall, Erik, Earth Mover, Assault Force, Make My Day, Navadon, Pet Rescue, Questor 3, Unknown cute game, Unknown game, Unknown platformer, Unknown shooter
It’s been in the digital archives for a while, but has remains of Spore 2 been under our noses all this time? Or at least an earlier build. Take a look at Cybowormz and then compare to Mutant Zone.
A loading screen by Lizard has been recovered showing a game called Questerious – we find that it was a Melbourne House title. Was it a precursor for Thone of Fire?
Two early editions of two Edge games have been recovered and added to two separate prototype post entries here:
R.I.S.K prototypes, Tangent prototype
Altarius, Arc Angel, Atlaxmax, B-Ball, Bad Game, Ballfever, Ballisation, Cheeky Twins III, City Invaders, Danger! High Voltage, Death Blow, Dionysus III, Doomed World, Game Got No Name, Horror Drive, Hyper Galactic Warrior, Impulse, International Karate V1, Knight “‘n’ Grail 2, Omega Ceti, Rampage V1, Repton, Rim Raiders, Sir Lancelot, Space Ace, Starswarm, Temple of Medom, Trazers, Uridibad, Xiphoid, Jet Pac (Unofficial)
Some more additions and tweaks. Check out the updates link for each to see what has changed. Nexus V1 has been added, but a Beyond Software labelled edition.
Basket Master V1, Deep Star, Escape, Firebird, Imperium, Lost Robot 2, Mindsmear, Movie Monster, The, Nexus V1, Star of Africa
A digitisation project which has been in progress for several years on and off now. The webmaster of GTW64 has compiled together all their work disks, tapes and gone through the lot – compiling together anything unfinished, incomplete pictures, games, demos into individual folders. More details on the page here with download links:
Over the past few years, I have been busy porting my own C64 disks (mostly to pass on potentially lost game cracks and demos from my own collection) and work tapes with the aim of digitally archiving all of the work i’ve ever done on the C64.
There has always been a lot of odds and ends that I’ve had sitting around, and before everything fully deteriorated, I thought it was time to get everything ported over and tidied up.
Whilst going through the disks of Cory Kin, we found an early preview of Tangent, which was released under the Softek label eventually (which was part of The Edge) – but this prototype specifies The Edge as the label for the release interestingly.
GTW’s Jazzcat has been busy arranging for a number of years the translation and release of a long lost game called Star of Africa.
Well, finally the time has come and everything is now completed. Here you can find the full download, and very soon we’ll get more details about the game itself:
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