Games That Weren't 64^®

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 →

Not a lot is really sadly known about this game, even if it bore any resembalance to Thing On A Spring!… This is a title which was first mentioned to GTW by Martin Holland before he passed away. The game … Continue reading →

Listed in ACE magazine as a Firebird re-release from Ariolasoft, we never actually even saw the original game either. So was it that Think! only got a Spectrum release, and ACE got the C64 format listing as incorrect? Not sure … Continue reading →

Originally we didn’t know a great deal about this game, only that it would have been the sequel to the released game and featured more of the other trains from the popular series. However, news has recently surfaced on the … Continue reading →