We kid thee not… The Alex Kidd rip off was in full production for the C64 by none other than Core Design, more specifically Rob Toone on programming duty, and Terry Lloyd on graphics. Ben Daglish was the man at … Continue reading →
Recently, Mark Hardisty has launched a website full of memorabilia in preparation for the launch of his new A Gremlin In The Works book. Part of this included source code files which were donated by Anthony J Clarke, which included … Continue reading →
Yet another game at the early stages of trying to find out more. It is believed that the game was to be called Epsilon (see panels in graphics), the game being done back around 1988 time with Andrew Morris. The … Continue reading →
A new addition to GTW by Gremlin Graphics, which was never heard about until now. Pete Dabbs has brought to our attention a game called Flonk, where you control a green mutant frog like creature, similar to that of Gribbly. … Continue reading →
Not much known about this pack i’m afraid, apart from that it was to contain games like Snakes and Ladders, and possibly other board games. We think there was some adverts for this compilation briefly, but we are needing confirmation … Continue reading →
Briefly mentioned in Commodore Format, this expansion pack never quite made it like their other released expansion pack. We are guessing that it got too late into the C64’s life, or not enough of the first expansion pack sold to … Continue reading →
Whilst at Active Minds, Paul Clansey was asked to give a design for a new Heroquest game for Gremlin Graphics. It is likely that Active Minds collapsed before the game could be started, and therefore Gremlin got another team in … Continue reading →
Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 is a great 2 player split screen driving game, and seeing the sequel is enough to make any user excited. The other versions were breathtaking, and the C64 version was apparently shaping well according to rumours. … Continue reading →
Keeping with all the hype of the ex-world champion, Gremlin bought the rights to produce the game based on the famous British driver. Similar to other F1 games on the C64, Gremlin still decided to do a C64 version because … Continue reading →
A report on the ECTS (European Computer Trade Show) of 1989 was featured by Computer Action magazine in their July/August 1989 issue, with discussion of many forthcoming games. Inevitably, at least one of these did not come to fruition. Panic … Continue reading →
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