Our next entry is a very early text adventure that was created by Ivan Venturi, who went on to produce a number of titles for Simulmondo. With thanks to Damiano Gerli for highlighting. Ivan was just 14 years old when … Continue reading →
Steve Dunn did a few fair titles on the C64, but also had a few interesting unfinished/unreleased titles under his Backroom Software label. Blast was one of these titles which was a sort of Warhawk clone in its early stages … Continue reading →
A very short entry for a title which was advertised early on the C64’s life by an obscure postal based company called Custom Software. In the advert, the game was described as follows: “Dr Bongo’s plan is to destroy the … Continue reading →
Yet another obscure game, this time by an obscure company called “Mushroom”… Who I don’t think lasted particularly long. Dune Buggy is not to be confused with the Corbis game of the same name, and has you trying to escape … Continue reading →
A bit of a surprise, but whilst flicking through issue 7 of ACE magazine, we found a write up on Maelstrom games, where the 16-bit title Grimblood was mentioned. When discussing about if the 8-bits were being abandoned, they were … Continue reading →
An Italian title which was released, but is currently missing and yet to be preserved, and highlighted thanks to an article by quattrobit.blogspot.com. La Casa was the product of a Marco Pesce, and featured a neat two-player split-screen window with … Continue reading →
Boom Software had a number of titles advertised in 1984 for the Commodore 64, including this game. From what we can see, this game seems like it does exist, but is yet to be preserved – being in the C64tapes … Continue reading →
Another GTW game from the 80’s, created by a company who call themselves ‘Backroom Software’, so obviously this wasn’t created in house. We believe that this game was actually created by Steve Dunn, who also did the Blast game in … Continue reading →
Yet another title from Backroom Software, and one of their earlier developments that has been flagged up by Dan Warren. It is believed that Backroom Software was none other than Steve Dunn, who did various C64 games such as Better … Continue reading →
Confirmed as released (thanks to Steven Flanagan) and can be found via Gamebase64: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=24659&d=18&h=0 http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=23582&d=18&h=0 Case closed!
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