Games That Weren't 64^®

A rather old Probe game is next up, and from the depths of 1985 to be precise. The Devils Crown is an explorationg based game where you go under the sea to explore a sunken ship for treasure. CPC Reviews … Continue reading →

The Doomsday Papers was originally an Adventure game release on the ZX Spectrum by a newly formed software house from two teenagers Matthew Holmes and Andrew (Unknown surname), with the software house name "Matand" being a combination of both their … Continue reading →

A very quick entry thanks to Peter Weighill for a game that was advertised by American Eagle in 1984. The Elysian Fields was released on the Apple 2, but the Commodore 64 edition of the game seems to be completely … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for a potential C64 game that wasn’t from Games Workshop. According to an ex-employee, for The Enemy Within – the programmer who was hired to create the game for various platforms had simply copied the code … Continue reading →

A short entry to confirm that there was another version of The Fall Guy in production for Elite Software in the early days. The coder was Steven Green, who isn’t the same person who coded 1942 for Elite by the … Continue reading →

This may well be a short lived entry, but The Final Matrix was a ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC title released by Gremlin Graphics back in 1987. However, Zzap Italia reviewed the game and stated that a C64 version was … Continue reading →

This was a SEUCK game released commercially by Compass Software and reviewed by Commodore User in September 1988 in their Cheapo Round up section. The game was panned for being dull, and containing styltifying gameplay. Overall it got 1/10. Compass … Continue reading →

In April 1985, an issue of Commodore Horizons (Page 33) mentioned a particular adventure collection called "The Gold Collection", which was seven games that were to be marketed by Gilsoft and written with the aid of The Quill. These would … Continue reading →

Novasoft was one of those early development companies for the C64 which disappeared as quickly as they arrived. I don’t think i’ve ever really seen anything to come out of the company. The Great London-Paris Air Race was a sequel … Continue reading →

The Great Space Race was to be a huge game across many platforms, especially after the success of Valhalla by Legend. The game was advertised quite heavily with large black space backgrounds with text “The Great Space Race” in large … Continue reading →