Continuing the ongoing updates and fixes:

7 new entries added

Biz, Bloo!, Hell For Leather, Phantom – The Mission Remix, Tanx, Thunder Hawk, Victory Road (UK version)

51 updates added

This is mostly credit fixes, addition of extra scans and creator speaks added. Some highlights in particular to check are for Captain Planet, Hareraiser 2, Paperboy 2, Speedboat Assassin, Unnamed Tony Gibbs Game, Street Fighter 2 V1 (Interesting account from James Macdonald!) and Unnamed Tony Gibbs game.

2400 AD, Airwolf 2 V1, Albyon, Batman Returns, Blast, Breakthrough, CDU Games Disks, Capitaly, Captain Planet, Cattivik, Circus Fun!, City Bomber, Colour Space, Cyborg, DDT: Dynamic Debugger, Dinnamic Donkey Duo, Droid One, Droid One Plus, Enduro Racer V2, Fruit Fight, Gauntlet 3, Giana 2 – Arthur And Martha In Future World, Gods, Hareraiser 2, Ice Age, Kick Off, Kid Niki, Klaboom, Monster Business, Outrage, Paperboy 2, Penguin Tower, Quo Vadis, R.R Software Titles, Saigon Combat Unit, Shockwave, Shutdown, Solo, Sorry!, Speedboat Assassin, Street Fighter 2 V1, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, Tusari 2, Tyger Tyger, Unnamed Game, Unnamed Tony Gibbs game, Viking Child, Warspite, Xenon 2, Zynon

First of 2013 – whilst browsing through Drax’s work tunes, I spotted a few sets of tunes which were obviously meant for some games that never quite made it. Here are the very quick entries to start with – hoping to have more information very soon to elaborate more on them:

• 24th Amaranth GP
• Firefighter
• Unknown Ole Mogensen game

A few bits and pieces have come through right at the death of 2012 – which includes details of another Amiga to C64 conversion that never was called:

• Leaving Teramis

And also David Wightman helped us to confirm some more details on two games he was involved in which we had entries already in the archive, confirming credits and details to why the games never made it:

• Euro Soccer
• RatPack

RatPack led us to a sad discovery that ex-C64 developer Carl Wade passed away in 2011 at the young age of 40. Carl was famous for the C64 conversions of Double Dragon (Ocean), Gemini Wing and Stratego. Rest in piece Carl!

Well, ever since the upgrade of GTW64 was completed – it was straight onto preparing for the Christmas update. No rest for the wicked. Hopefully we won’t disappoint with some big findings to keep you going. Lets kick things off:

Otherworld full game

Our big finding for this update is a long lost full game from Andrew Morris (graphic artist for Kikstart 2 amongst many others) which we have salvaged from Andrew’s work disks. This is a very cool Thing on a Spring’esq game which unfortunately didn’t quite make the budget labels of the day. A huge thanks to Jani Tahvanainen for helping recover the game and also fixing things up as a completable game.

Otherworld

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After many years of saying we were going to update GTW64, it has finally been done! We are very proud to present the newly updated GTW64 site, now becoming part of the main Games That Weren’t website and taking advantages of its features – including the ability to rate entries, comment, view latest update feeds and more. Additionally there have been improvements to searching and discovery with various canned searches set up throughout on key attributes like company and year.

No doubt there will be a few niggles here and there, but we hope to have caught most of the problems. If you do spot anything badly broken, please let us know and we’ll aim to fix as soon as possible. It is hoped that this upgrade will provide a mechanism to carry out quicker updates and on the fly updates as well (i.e. publish updated notes as soon as we get them). We’ll see – but any time saved will with any luck give us more time to locate more unreleased C64 software.

We are additionally retiring the gtw64.co.uk domain, and it will merely act as a redirect to the new address from now on. If anything has linked to any old GTW64 pages/urls, then we are hoping that most should be redirecting to the new addresses here. If you are linking to the old address, please could you update your bookmarks and links accordingly!

Not much else left to say apart from that we hope you enjoy the new site!