Games That Weren't 64^®

Thanks to contributor Karl Kuras for the heads up. Nuclear War was a fairly well received strategy war game that was released on the Amiga and PC back in 1990 by New World Computing. The game advertisement would however list … Continue reading →

Our next title is a strategy game which can allow for up to 4 players in total. Number Jotto is described as follows: “Deduction, logic and patience are the skills you must master to win the game. The object is … Continue reading →

A game which was advertised by The Learning Company in the manual for Bumble Plot, which was released. Described as “In the electronic version of a classic 14th century game of chance, children learn to add and subtract and also … Continue reading →

Nutland was a game being written in the early 80’s by Richard Taylor, featuring a squirrel main character. At present we do not know any more information about the game, and will be updating this entry as we get more … Continue reading →

A short collective entry for a series of Commodore 64 adventures that are currently missing and were advertised for a long period of time in Computer Shopper magazine in 1986. Flagged up by Bertrand / Atari Frog. These were three … Continue reading →

A rather quick entry until we get more info, but Octil was in production by Paul Black, who did a number of C64 titles including Dizzy Down The Rapids. We don’t know anything about the game just yet until hopefully … Continue reading →

A very quick entry to cover what seems to be a James Bond title which got caught up in the video game collapse of 1984. According to online sources, Parker Bros were planning to release a game based on the … Continue reading →

Titus released a string of 3D-based games, initially on the 16-bit machines but often converted down to 8-bit. Among the most famous is the Crazy Cars series, all three of which made the jump to the C64. Offshore Warrior was … Continue reading →

“An adventure of mystery and suspense, based around the London South Bank” – as described in the advert which was printed by CVG back in the day. Old Scores is yet another adventure game, and a graphic text adventure by … Continue reading →