Games That Weren't

Well, another year has passed and when preparing for this update, I realised that it had been almost 12 months since the last full update. Sorry about that! Hopefully reasons are now a lot clearer as to why that was! 🙂

Once the dust settles a bit, then we will be back in full trying to recover and preserve more lost C64 titles and make up for lost time. We are also starting to create and add videos to some of the entries as something a bit extra.

Many thanks to all our contributors for this update, including in particular Fabrizio Bartoloni, Csaba Virag, Hedning/GP and Jazzcat who contributed a lot to this update and for Vinny Mainolfi for all his support. All the best for 2020 and hope you enjoy the update!

Dungeons of Doom recovered and released

With kind thanks to the developer and publisher of the game, Brian Harvey, Dungeons of Doom has been recovered and fully preserved. An obscure title that only seemed to have a handful of sales, now can finally be enjoyed:

Dungeons of Doom

2 early previews recovered

Thanks to Csaba Virag, two new previews have been recovered and added to the archives, including the long lost Novatrade Tetris development:

Tili-Toli and Tetris (Novatrade)

‘Bath Time’ prototype recovered

Thanks again to Csaba Virag, an interesting prototype of Bath Time under the name of ‘Swan and Fish’ has been added to the archive:

Swan and Fish

Then as per usual…

18 new entries added

More new entries added to the archive:

2Pac, 8-Bit Fighters, Catacombs, Drone Processor, Forestland, Frixxion, Graffiti, Helecopter Game, Knights of Legend Expansion Packs, Muhtar, Penetrator, Race Through Space, SEJD, The Critters Company, The Jewel of the Nile, VVVVVV, Warball, Zyflex

63 updates added

Followed up by a large number of updates, including credits, scans and other details (See updates segment in each for what has changed):

19 Boot Camp Part 2, Adam Caveman, Allo Allo, Am-Cup, Arcane Quest, Arsenal FC, Aztec – Hunt For The Sun-God, B-Ball, Brides Of Dracula, Bryan Robson’s Super League, Bubbles, Captain Dynamo 2, Daffy Duck, Dukes of Hazzard V1, Evolution Cryser, Final Eclipse, Flik Flak, Galago, Gotcha Maths, Gyrofalcon, Habitat, Horror Atoll, I Of The Mask, Infer, Joe Blade 3, Ladders To Learning, Le Fantome Vert, Leopard Lord, Lord Of The Rings, Lost Caves, Lunar Rescue, Mattie Goes Mining, Mission Jupiter, Monster Maths and Fun To Learn, Mood, Outrun Europe, Pengwyn, Phantom Rider, Picnic Adventure, Pluff, Rent-a-cop Reloaded, Return Of The Lions, Savage Platforms, Scooter, Scramble 2010, Secrets of the Magi, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Spellcast, Spooky, Squelc, Sword Of Twilight, Terror From The Deep, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Roundsby Incident, The Sentinel 2, The Swamp, Turbo Tiger Software Titles, Tyger Tyger, Typhoon Thompson, Wildfire, Xanagrams, Your Computer Software Exchange

Bonus content – Derrick Boorman disks

Just a little extra, but recently we recovered some disks from a secondhand shop (Level Up Games – Canterbury) and found some hacked demos on a work disk. Here they are just as a curiosity:

Derrick Boorman disks

Just a very short post to host some demo/hack disks that I found in Level Up games in Canterbury on some old C64 disks.

They seem to be credited to a Derick Boorman who lived in Kent and hacked around a bit with some old C64 demos, changing scrolltexts etc.

Please note, these were probably done when the author was very young – so the credit changes to themselves can be ignored. I did similar lame things when I was probably around their same age!

In case you want to see something a bit different, here are the disk images for posterity:

A short post thanks to contributor Daniel Meléndez, who spotted Daley Thompson playing a slightly different looking Daley Thompson’s Decathlon game on the Commodore 64:

Not massive differences it has to be said, apart from the panel boards and the score display section. Here is the released version as a comparison (Screenshot taken from Lemon64)

Often early builds would change their panels/layouts slightly over time. Would be interesting to know if there were any other major differences between what Daley was playing above and what we got to see in the end.