Games That Weren't 64^®

Titan’s Mystery was to be a new title from Italian label Genias for 1992. The game was mentioned in “C+VG Annuario 1992”, an addon to “C+VG” issue 11, December 1991… http://ready64.org/articoli /leggi/idart/30/-rivista -panorama-del-software-ludico -nazionale Stefan Roda, software manager in Genias, … Continue reading →

A strange naming for a title, so close to the publishing name. However, Titus The Fox was an above average platform affair on the 16-bit home computers. The 8-bit conversions were all planned also, and saw the release of the … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for a title that was being developed for System 3 by LT Software (who were to originally do International Karate and Twister on the C64). This was a robot shooter called TOBOR, which was ROBOT spelt … Continue reading →

Channel 8 Software, the company behind this GTW, Toddler Tutor, released a series of educational software in the 1980s, for the C64 and the CGL – Sord M5, which was a Japanese computer similar to the ZX Spectrum. They also … Continue reading →

A rather intriguing title from "The Edge" this time, and one which to be honest i’ve never really heard of before until now. The only mention seems to have been in Soft 1988, Issue 2, and no UK magazines at … Continue reading →

Thanks to Hedning for flagging this game up, but in COMPUTE’s Gazette May 1985, page 147, a game called Tornado Tom was flagged up. We know little about the game at present – but here is the scan from the … Continue reading →

Tournament Golf was to be a conversion of the Sega arcade game Arnold Palmer’s Tournament Golf for the C64. The only knowledge we have of such a conversion was from Elite’s very own website: http://www.elite-systems.co.uk/elite/htdocs/games.php?id=64 The game got a release … Continue reading →

A technically impressive game which you’d never expect to see on a C64, though Gremlin had other plans… They had managed to get Lotus converted to the C64 with success, so Toyota Rally didn’t seem that impossible to try too. … Continue reading →

Yet another Codemasters title that never was. This time, Codemasters put out an advert in a magazine – giving rates for conversions of their titles to other platforms. Transmuter was listed, with a £2500 bounty to convert from the Spectrum … Continue reading →