Save Those Janitors was an action video game where you had to rescue 9 stranded janitors aboard an orbiting nuclear reactor before food runs out. It was advertised in a 1992 issue of RUN magazine from the US. The game … Continue reading →
A rather interesting entry from the Dutch USA Team back in 1987 – Saviour is a 8-way directional scrolling shoot-em-up which looks a heck of a lot like Parallax in early stages. What is particularly interesting is that it is … Continue reading →
SAW Wars was a tongue in cheek game written by Ben Hayes before his days at Enigma Variations. Ben described things in an interview as follows: "Sort of a right to left shoot-em-down thing. There was a point to the … Continue reading →
Thanks to Brendan Phoenix for the heads up. Zzap 64 in October 1986 had a small news snippet about Scarabaeus 2 coming soon from Ariolasoft. Apparently the Zzap team had seen something of the game and thought it was very … Continue reading →
Sounds like a fight that has broken out in a Chemistry lab, but the game doesn’t quite resemble that in this sideways shoot-em-up. Quite a fair bit has been done for this game, all but the actual game itself. We’ve … Continue reading →
Another exciting title from the authors of Armalyte, Cyberdyne Systems. This time we were to be treated with a sooped up version of Sinistar from the arcades, with an awesome looking starfield effect and some superb graphics by Rob Levy. … Continue reading →
Forumites on Lemon 64 were happily surprised on the 4th August 2014, when the developer of a long lost adventure game of Scooby Doo was recovered and uploaded for the first time in over 20 years, after being recovered from … Continue reading →
The screenshots looked amazing, the game was gonna be a stunner. The game was to be based on the LaserDisc Dragons Lair arcade, with what would be a basic interactive movie game…. very advanced and ahead of its time, especially … Continue reading →
Scooter was one of a few titles advertised by Electric Dreams back in issue 8 of Zzap 64 games. Nuclear Nick was to be part of a double pack with a game called Scooter. It never quite surfaced, but after … Continue reading →
After Turrican 2 and before Turrican 3 by Protovision and Smash Designs, another Turrican clone was being formed with a different main character. "Scorpion" was hoping to take off from where Turrican 2 left off and continue the craze of … Continue reading →
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