Games That Weren't 64^®

Magnox was yet another Cyberdyne game, but one of the more forgotten titles which never saw the light of day. Dan Phillips cannot recall too much about the game, but it is believed to be a vertical shoot-em-up that was … Continue reading →

Mentioned in a US sales catalogue, Main Event was to be a wrestling title released by Activision and was a conversion of the Konami arcade game The Main Event. It is a game that was never really heard about in … Continue reading →

When the C64 was dying out commercially, Jon Wells was trying to flood the C64 with new releases. One of his ideas was to take the entire back catalogue of Clive Wilson adventure titles and update them with new graphics, … Continue reading →

‘Make My Day’ and was another of those Trojan Light Gun games which were being created in the early 90’s as the light phaser games began to get popular. Virgin Mastertronic had already done a series of light gun games, … Continue reading →

A very short entry to highlight that there is suggested to be a Spanish version of Mandragore, along with the English, German and French editions that exist. At the moment it is missing – so can you help find and … Continue reading →

Another beat-em-up clone which was planned for the Commodore 64 back in 1990, and another one which never got to see the light of day. Manhattan Dealers was released on the Amiga/ST platforms and was a relative success, but not … Continue reading →

This game was found out about thanks to Jason Kelk, who pointed me in the direction of the DELTA loader… In that, you will read about forthcoming games on the C64, which includes Starline (See elsewhere) and also Mantrax. I … Continue reading →

Mantronix was due to appear on the C64, along with a release on the CPC, in 1986, sometime after it was first released by Probe Software on the ZX Spectrum. Like so many Spectrum games it failed to ever get … Continue reading →