Disney’s animated film of the Rudyard Kipling Jungle Book stories was a big hit, In 1985, magazine news articles promised a series of games based on the Jungle Book characters. Other titles discussed in the same news piece were The … Continue reading →
According to Commodore Computing International in December 1988, Active Distribution LTD had made a marketing deal with French company Coktel Vision. The first game to be released was Jungle Book. The game was to be an adventure game for children. … Continue reading →
Before you say it… yes we are aware of the 1985 game of the same name by Ariolasoft, but this is a title from 1991 which was mentioned as being developed for the C64 by Linel in Your Commodore issue … Continue reading →
Electric Dreams/Activision seemed to have a bit of a knack of having cancellations, but also games which when eventually released, looked far different to the preview screenshots shown in the press early on. Like with Time Scanner and R-Type, you … Continue reading →
A quick new entry for what Freddy Hardest 2 should have been originally, in the form of “Katia” by Iron Byte, a Uruguayan development team. The Freddy Hardest 2 game (known to many as Guardian Angel from Codemasters) originally featured … Continue reading →
Another game which I unfortunately cannot say too much about, due to the game being in German. It seems to be a trading game of somekind, and something i’ve been told is quite a popular type of game in Germany. … Continue reading →
This game looks to be a Space Invader/Mega Phoenix clone in updated fashion, and it isn’t that bad. The background graphics and sprites look quite good. Even though the preview is simple, it plays well and just has a good … Continue reading →
Whilst flicking through an old Sinclair User magazine from May 1985, Mark R Jones spotted an advert for World Series Baseball, which listed a game called Key To Success as coming soon for the Commodore 64. This is the first … Continue reading →
This is nothing to do with the Anco game series of the same name, but this particular Kick Off game was to be a conversion of the Jaleco coin-op from 1988, suggesting that this game was due for release around … Continue reading →
Yet another Beyond Belief game which was planned and mentioned in the interview with Jim Scott. Information is a bit scarce, as all we currently know is that the game was to be a horizontally scrolling bike game for one … Continue reading →
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