Yet another game from Visualize which sadly got caught up in the C64’s commercial death. This was planned to be one of the C64’s many saviours in the Games Explosion of 1994 in the UK, after all seemed to be … Continue reading →
A puzzler game with our next entry which existed first as a splash screen and some graphics. The game involves you controlling a virus and having to kill a mainframe using some sort of "VOS" (Virus Operating System) from the … Continue reading →
"Get Dexter" or "Crafton & Xunk" was an isometric 3D game popular on the Amstrad, published by Infogrames. According to the White Wizard’s review of Mandragore (a role-playing game by Infogrames) on page 70 of issue 16 of Zzap 64, … Continue reading →
What is it with previews which seem to have spent all the time and effort on graphics and titles, but no actual game to play with it too? Get Ready is another such title where it seems a lot of … Continue reading →
This is in fact what would become Hard ‘N’ Heavy, the unofficial sequel to Giana Sisters. Well, it was actually once the OFFICIAL sequel to Giana before Nintendo had stepped in. Many of us learnt about the sequel in the … Continue reading →
Giana Strikes Back was to be a game that had a brief mention in various fanzines as being developed by Peter Staaks (Graphics) and Frits Koudijs (Code). A few months later it was decided that the game was never gonna … 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 RPG title, with a large world with 16 different countries, 32 dungeons, four different breeds, elaborate, personal character … Continue reading →
Another entry we sadly don’t know too much about, and one we need to question Haydn about slightly to find out some background to it. We have no ideas of publisher or anything like how the game was shaping up. … Continue reading →
Advertised in Compute! Vol.7 issue 1, Global Quest was due for release on both Atari and Commodore 64 platforms, and was a strategy war game by California Dreamers in 1984. Sadly the game is currently at large, and we’re not … Continue reading →
Another entry, but this time for a game that we don’t know too much about at present. This was to be a 3rd part in a series of adventure games by Level 9 Computing. The first two were very popular, … Continue reading →
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