Games That Weren't 64^®

The source of this next entry is interesting as it was mentioned in “Illegal” pirate fanzine as something seen at PC 1988 show (or so it seems) by SSD of Cosmos. Dark Sceptre was a game by Mike Singleton which … Continue reading →

I’m a huge Dizzy fan, so to hear of any unreleased works by The Oliver Twins is always quite exciting. Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni, the following game was brought to my attention. Excalibur was to be a top down adventure … Continue reading →

A vague title in the dungeons of GTW. Unfortunately there is not currently much information on this game, but there was only the rumor of Rob Hubbard composing the music for this game. This now has been confirmed thanks to … Continue reading →

In the same era as the lost release of Pyramid of Time, Firebird were also to release another Activision game on their Silverbird label… Zzap first mentioned news of the game in issue 26… “Hot on the heels of the … Continue reading →

It was thought that this possibly may have been released as Combat Crazy, due to the fact that the game has a tune in it mean’t for G.I. Hero, and also G.I. Hero and Combat Crazy sound like two similar … Continue reading →

Steve Bak (author of the Cuthbert games as well as Hercules and C64 Ghostbusters 2) was one of the first Atari ST programmers, owning the UK’s first development kit and working on games before its official UK release. His 16-bit … Continue reading →

Hmmm, not quite sure just yet if this was just a mere mistake in a US based catalogue, but the classic Amiga title – Golden Path was listed as being sold for the C64 in a Spring 1987 catalogue by … Continue reading →

A very obscure title now, and yet another Firebird title to enter the archives. Ice Age mainly has come to light due to the SID file which is in HVSC that Jeroen Tel did for this game and sound effects … Continue reading →

We are excited to learn of yet another Ultimate game which was apparently in the works for the Commodore 64. Following on from the successful conversion of Nightshade, Shahid Ahmad was offered the chance to convert both Knightlore and Alien … Continue reading →

Odin and Thor released a whole range of cool games, and this could have potentially been another. Lustiania had the working title of “Sunken Ship Game” and was being coded by Robbie Tinman, with music by his brother Keith Tinman, … Continue reading →