A very quick entry for a title we know very little about at present, but was advertised in Personal Computer Games 1984 (Issue 8) by Visions Software. Pengi was advertised by Visions for the C64 and BBC Micro – though … Continue reading →
Pengwyn has all the indications that its a poor man’s Pengo clone, and the C64 certainly had plenty of these :) Postern was to jump on the bandwagon with their own clone, and the game was mentioned in various adverts. … Continue reading →
Gremlin Graphics were very popular on the C64 in the 80’s, and another title on the way was a intrigingly named “Pentacle”. This game was in the style of Knight Lore, and was being developed by Richard Underhill (ex-Arc Developments) … Continue reading →
People from Sirius was to be an arcade adventure game released by U.S. Gold back in 1987, after Mauro Spagnolo submitted a title to John Holder of Leader Distribuzioni. The game would eventually see release via Your Sinclair magazine as … Continue reading →
A interesting puzzle game with some very interesting credits too. Created by Miles Barry, who has had an unfortunate record with his game releases, having worked on Fuzzball and Escape From Colditz as well as this little puzzler. Graphics were … 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. Peter Pan was to be a future release and was … Continue reading →
Another Dungeons and Dragon style game from an unknown source, which seems fairly good at this early stage, with a bit of movement – but little else of note at this stage. Author Todd Elliott got in touch with GTW … Continue reading →
Yet another Ocean title which seems to have got lost along the way from its translation from other formats. In particular from the Spectrum/Amstrad in this case. Phantom Club was a Knightlore style game from the creator of MOVIE, another … Continue reading →
A very short entry for a title which may have been something advertised in early magazines. The game was to be released by Playsoft, but we know very little else apart from this. The game is also part of a … Continue reading →
Pharaoh’s Pyramid was a fairly popular game for the Atari in the early 80’s by Master Control Software, and was a rather enjoyable Q-Bert clone. In the advert, it was stated that a Commodore 64 conversion was coming soon … … Continue reading →
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