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 →
It has always been wondered what happened to the sequel to Olli and Lissa on the C64. Especially if you consider that the first game was released by Firebird, and the 3rd game was released by Codemasters. We learn that … Continue reading →
Unfortunately I couldn’t get this preview working properly, so until I can see and play it, I can’t say too much about it. It’s a puzzler, and thats about all I can say. The graphics are quite simplistic, from what … Continue reading →
Confirmed by JDP (who can search Gamebase64 far better than I!) that these were in fact released on the C64 in some shape or form and can be downloaded from here: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=5595&d=18&h=0 http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=5414&d=18&h=0 Case closed!
Yet another Codemasters game to add to the pile – this time a conversion of an Oliver Twins game called Operation Gunship. This game was a top down multi-directional scroller – actually very similiar to Firehawk, which was later being … Continue reading →
An interesting looking title which looks a lot like Dicky’s Diamonds, but was a US based release that was going to be on cartridge back in early 1984. The game was reviewed by Electronic Fun with Computers and Games magazine, … Continue reading →
A very early game from Jason Kelk, ex-editor of Commodore Zone, and also the main man behind Cosine Systems. Orbyt is a creation from Jason’s early days as a programmer, and is a unfinished game which was to involve using … Continue reading →
A new Melbourne House title (whilst under the Virgin Mastertronic ownership) was due on the C64 in the shape of Orel Hershiser’s Strike Zone, a pretty cool baseball game which seems to have only been due for release in the … Continue reading →
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