Games That Weren't 64^®

When Keith Purkiss got in touch to confirm that he was the developer of Apprentice for Rainbow Arts, he also revealed that he had been involved on a Commodore 64 conversion of Artic Computing’s Alladin’s Cave. This was a single … Continue reading →

The Eye of Bain was a neat little text adventure created in 1984 by Artic Computing. Advertised for the likes of the Spectrum and the Commodore 64 in various magazines, only the Spectrum version seems to have surfaced. The C64 … Continue reading →

Ground Zero was yet another text adventure created in 1984 by Artic Computing. Advertised for the likes of the Spectrum and the Commodore 64 in various magazines, only the Spectrum version seems to have surfaced. The C64 version is very … Continue reading →

Rugby sims have always been underrepresented in the computer gaming market. Football sims have dominated Europe, while in the USA its American Football that has dominated. It doesn’t help that the rules of rugby are awkward to translate fluently to … Continue reading →

A GTW title that could be vapourware, but we can confirm there was planning to have a sequel to the fairly well recieved Mothership game that was originally released in 1983 by Softsync and then republished by Artic later. The … Continue reading →