The Tripods was to be a graphic adventure game based on the John Christopher novels / BBC TV adaption, featuring creatures which look like something out of War of the Worlds. The adverts mentioned that the game would promise something … Continue reading →
The War Of The Dragon was to be an Hungarian developed game back in 1989, which was based on a book written by Miklós Tihor and Zsolt Mazán. The book was published in 1989 by LSI and the guys wanted … Continue reading →
The War of the Worlds was produced by CRL in association with ORP, and judging from the advert it was slated for release on a slew of platforms, but only seems to have made it out for the ZX Spectrum. … Continue reading →
Not to be confused with CRL’s officially planned release, which was also cancelled. This was to be a completely different War of the Worlds game, but thankfully is one which has been out there all along. When recently trawling through … Continue reading →
The While Dragon was a game being proposed by a guy called Sean Huxter. It was hoped that it would be proposed to Epyx Software back in the early 80’s as a sequel of sorts to Dragonriders of Pern. Sean … Continue reading →
Now, this will be something people will maybe shed a tear for…. news that The Wild Bunch was indeed making its way onto the Commodore 64! Though not quite in the Firebird release form you may have expected, but through … Continue reading →
For a more detailed analysis of Triffid Software Research and the Runemagic Adventure Series, read the entry for The Secret River. A quick summary is that a series of eight adventures were planned, the first two of which, The Secret … Continue reading →
Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. The Wooden Box was a text adventure game due for release in 1986 by Anthony Collins, and was to be … Continue reading →
Briefly mentioned in an issue of Commodore Cracker, there was a brief news item saying that the conversion of Theme Park for the C64 was looking seriously delayed. It never surfaced unsurprisingly, and was most likely vapourware. Note in the … Continue reading →
A game which has a rather strong link to Mayhem In Monsterland as you may tell from the title of this game. Theo sauraus was the beginnings of Mayhem In Monsterland, where the main character was a cute dragon named … Continue reading →
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