Games That Weren't 64^®

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 →

A collective entry now for what was to be a large number of Spectrum text adventure conversions to the Commodore 64. In Commodore Force issue 1, Bash the Barbarian mentions that The Guild’s Tony Collins had picked up the rights … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a licence that would never actually get used in the end. Elite Software were pretty on the ball along with Ocean Software back in the day, getting hold of high profile licences such as Airwolf … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that may well never have existed at all. This was a budget re-release of a game called Comando Tracer, originally released by Dinamic Software. Here is a page from CPC-Power on the game (who … Continue reading →

Very early days for this entry, but this is based from a conversation that GTW had with Alan Botwright (Who worked on Brides of Dracula), who mentioned what C64 titles he worked on including Judge Dredd and a game called … Continue reading →

Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. The Legacy of Light was meant to be the sequel to Wrath Of Magra, which ironically never saw release either … Continue reading →

Part of a series of Power House titles which never quite saw the light of day, or at least are not picked up in Gamebase 64. Did this game ever get a release? Certainly this title although mentioned in Zzap … Continue reading →

A very small entry for a title which we are not entirely sure as of yet if a C64 version was ever on the cards. The Light Corridor was a first person puzzle game released by Infogrames on the Spectrum, … Continue reading →

A very short entry of a Thor/Odin game which was to be based on the Terminator licence, after a potential licence deal fell through. Zzap did a small feature and news snippet with the game, which mentioned a story which … Continue reading →