Games That Weren't 64^®

A rather old Probe game is next up, and from the depths of 1985 to be precise. The Devils Crown is an explorationg based game where you go under the sea to explore a sunken ship for treasure. CPC Reviews … Continue reading →

A very quick entry thanks to Peter Weighill for a game that was advertised by American Eagle in 1984. The Elysian Fields was released on the Apple 2, but the Commodore 64 edition of the game seems to be completely … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for a potential C64 game that wasn’t from Games Workshop. According to an ex-employee, for The Enemy Within – the programmer who was hired to create the game for various platforms had simply copied the code … Continue reading →

This may well be a short lived entry, but The Final Matrix was a ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC title released by Gremlin Graphics back in 1987. However, Zzap Italia reviewed the game and stated that a C64 version was … Continue reading →

Forumites on Lemon 64 were happily surprised on the 4th August 2014, when the developer of a long lost adventure game of Scooby Doo was recovered and uploaded for the first time in over 20 years, after being recovered from … Continue reading →

In April 1985, an issue of Commodore Horizons (Page 33) mentioned a particular adventure collection called "The Gold Collection", which was seven games that were to be marketed by Gilsoft and written with the aid of The Quill. These would … Continue reading →

Novasoft was one of those early development companies for the C64 which disappeared as quickly as they arrived. I don’t think i’ve ever really seen anything to come out of the company. The Great London-Paris Air Race was a sequel … Continue reading →

A collective entry now for what was to be a large number of Spectrum text adventure conversions to the Commodore 64. In Commodore Force issue 1, Bash the Barbarian mentions that The Guild’s Tony Collins had picked up the rights … Continue reading →

Forumites on Lemon 64 were happily surprised on the 4th August 2014, when the developer of a long lost adventure game of Scooby Doo was recovered and uploaded for the first time in over 20 years, after being recovered from … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a licence that would never actually get used in the end. Elite Software were pretty on the ball along with Ocean Software back in the day, getting hold of high profile licences such as Airwolf … Continue reading →