A short entry for a title which we somehow missed over the years, but was flagged up to us by Ross Sillifant. This was an arcade style game which was due on the Spectrum/C64 and ST in June 1988, being mentioned in magazines such as ACE and The Games Machine as coming soon.
ACE described the game as being a witch who’s broken faith with your coven, and you must attempt to take power from the twelve covens before All Hallows Eve arrives. Sounds very much like Cauldron!
The storyline was written by horror author and C+VG writer, John Gilbert. Sadly though the game seems to have got caught up in the downfall of Piranha, which went down around this time with a bunch of other games. Even the ZX version and other versions never made it either.
Did anything of this game ever get started? And who coded it?
Well, thanks to some recent recovery work from the disks of Che Guevara John, graphics by Cooky (who did graphical work on Blood Valley for Gremlin / Imagitec) were found from the game. Just the loading screen and ending screen it seems – but it confirms at least one of the artists and that Imagitec were behind the C64 conversion.
We hope that this may now lead to further details coming to light about who did the programming and how far it got. Hopefully it wasn’t just a loading/end screen that ever existed!
Contributions: Ross Sillifant, Che Guevara John
Supporting content
Available downloads
- Assets_Coven (zip)
Gallery
Update history
22/09/25 – Loading and end screen recovered!
