Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games for the Commodore 64 Since 1999
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A very small entry for what was an earlier edition of 3D Pool being written for Firebird, by none other than Paul Hughes. Nick Pelling had just completed the BBC Micro edition, and Paul was taken in by the amazing … Continue reading
Also known as: The Fisher
A very interesting and unreleased Ocean Software game which hasn’t really come to light until 2024, and it’s thanks to the Ocean Software group on Facebook, which is maintained by Mark R. Cobley-Jones. Mark recalled Ocean having to create a … Continue reading
Cobra was of course released on the C64 by Ocean Software in 1986, but Paul Hughes was a bigger fan of Joffa Smith’s awesome (and far better) Spectrum effort. So much so that just before joining Ocean, Paul started converting … Continue reading
Straight from the success of Last Ninja and just after the release of R-Type in the arcades, Mark Cale decided that he wanted to really see a R-Type C64 clone with graphics by Hugh Riley. The result was to eventually … Continue reading
Our next GTW entry comes in the form of a Slapfight style vertical scrolling shoot-em-up which was being produced by Paul Hughes. It was originally assumed to have been produced for Ocean, but we find that in fact the game … Continue reading
Very little is known about Newt, apart from the fact that it was to eventually become Hyperactive by Special FX. Paul Hughes was writing the original at Ocean Software as his very first game, and was suggested to have been … Continue reading
Yet another Firebird title which was never to see the light of day, and a rather promising Armalyte kind of game too! Storm Warrior was like Armalyte but with a full colour scroll (something pioneered at Ocean, scrolling the whole … Continue reading
A surprise finding for GTW in 2012 was made when Richard Bayliss was checking through some loader source files from Paul Hughes’ disks that we backed up recently, and he came across a source code file named “Defender 2”. Richard … Continue reading
An interesting title mentioned to us by Paul Hughes as a title which was shown to Gary Liddon at Thalamus, before Paul actually got signed up by Ocean Software. This was to be a full screen scrolling Spindizzy clone with … Continue reading
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