As with Solider of Light, it seems even Alien Syndrome once had an earlier edition in production by a completely different team. However, with this entry – it was being developed for publication by a completely different company. Similar to … Continue reading →
Following on from Neverending Story and Hunchback – The Adventure, there was plans for a 3rd game to use the very same engine developed by the late Ian Weatherburn. After getting the licence for Batman and having the 3D game … Continue reading →
We all know the famous tale about the Imagine Mega Games that never were, and these would go on to inspire Charlie Brooker with his brilliant Bandersnatch episode as part of his Black Mirror series. Within the episode, we could … Continue reading →
Brainleak was an arcade adventure type of game being developed with a point-and-click based system implemented into the game via a series of icons. The game apparently had a very complex plot, which unfortunatly Jason Kelk does not remember. Information … Continue reading →
Famous for the fantastic Crazy Comets and Mega Apocalypse, it was a honour to finally meet Simon Nicol at 2003’s BIT5 Brighton event. As well as talking about Mad Planets to Simon, Simon started conversation about a Car game which … Continue reading →
A obscure title by Simon Birrell, creator of Strangeloop for Virgin Games. Essentially, this game stems from the ripping off of one of Simon’s own ideas which was "Slideways", also in GTW. Cascade ripped off the Slideways game and released … Continue reading →
A mysterious game created by Simon Birrell which was originally penned as a game for the BBC Micro. However, Virgin Games decided that they also wanted this title completed on the C64. The BBC game can be seen here btw… … Continue reading →
A neat little title from Simon Quernhorst, which is themed on Chess, but has a much more simplistic aim in this logical game. Although starting to take shape back in 2014, the game was abandoned due to other projects and … Continue reading →
A year before the release of Crazy Comets, Simon and his friend John coded their own conversion of the arcade ‘Mad Planets’. It wasn’t brilliant compared with the two later versions lacking music by Rob Hubbard, but a reasonable attempt … Continue reading →
A short entry for another Prisma educational title which was completed, but never released for some reason. The game did see release on the Amiga in 1991. All we know is that the developer was someone called “Simon”, and they … Continue reading →
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