Panzadrome was to be a neat little tank action game (top down approach) by Ram Jam Corporation on various machines including the C64. It was based in a maze type arena, going around and blowing up various other tanks on … Continue reading →
A very popular arcade from Atari in 1986, converted fairly well to the C64 by Elite around the same time. Mindscape were this time handling the sequel, which never existed as an arcade title. Paperboy 2 this time featured the … Continue reading →
This is another game which Zeldin was working on. Thew game only in planning-phase (some grafix, animations etc. were done). It’s not quite sure what this game was about, though I hope Zeldin will explain more. Was it a update … Continue reading →
A short entry for what is a significant earlier version of Paradroid, which was revealed by Andrew Braybook via Twitter. The screenshot below is from Andrew’s negative archive, showing an early version with the player’s gunsight that moves along in … Continue reading →
A bit of a shock finding from Visualize Software way back late in 2004. Upon digging out some disks, Kenz stumbled across some demos by Jon Wells, which included this interesting little preview called “Parallax Preview”. This was thought to … Continue reading →
Well, it could and maybe it should have happened… but Parallax was due a sequel from the Sensible Software boys, and certainly this was very much on the cards. The previous game was left rather open at the end once … Continue reading →
A graphically nice looking Arkanoid clone, featuring background images from various games and demo’s. The game was being developed by Thomas Mittelmeyer around 1993/94 – who is famous critically for Lemmings on the C64. More polished looking than Arkanoid, but … Continue reading →
Paranoid Pete is a space harvesting action game which was released on the Spectrum way back in 1984. Personal Computer Games advertised the game and clearly you can see that a Commodore 64 version was in the pipeline. Although the … Continue reading →
Following on from the brilliant Bubble Bobble and the radical Rainbow Islands, Parasol Stars was one of the most eagerly awaited games of 1992. However, just as it was nearing completion, Ocean made a public statement in 1992 that their … Continue reading →
Thanks to Jazzcat for the heads up about this game, which was shown recently on the developer’s website. The game was a computer based board game, which included a level editor. The game could be played with up to four … Continue reading →
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