Games That Weren't 64^®

A short entry for a title that was being created by the developers of Jack Attack – Kevin Kieller and John Traynor. This was a title for Commodore – an educational title to teach basic math concepts. Sadly Commodore were … Continue reading →

Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. After the Fire was a graphic text adventure due for release from Channel 8 in September 1984. Although due for … Continue reading →

Agrophobia was a text adventure game written by Mark Healey (who did graphics for Sleepwalker and the Fun School series). The game was created whilst at school, and Mark sold about 3-4 copies to friends. It was likely his very … Continue reading →

A short entry for a Commodore MAX title that was proposed, but never finished and released. Air Battle would set you in air and space, pitting you against many different types of alien invaders. At each level, the player would … Continue reading →

A very short entry unfortunately for a title which we should have added a long time ago. Aircat was a game to be developed by Canvas Software for an unknown publisher at the time. We believe it was some kind … Continue reading →

A rather interesting story with another game which had an earlier version … but one which was infinately better it seems than what was eventually released. Airwolf 2 was released on the Hitpak collection as the final game was awful. … Continue reading →

Before Elite got the licence for Airwolf, Ocean Software actually started producing the home computer conversions. Although it was advertised for the Spectrum in the scan, it was infact also planned for the C64 until Elite Software won a legal … Continue reading →

Often there were titles that had completely different US releases, such as Bionic Commando and Afterburner. Some were just NTSC fixed versions of the UK releases, such as Salamander. Ajax (or A-Jax) was another title planned for release by Konami … Continue reading →