Capture the Flag is a brilliant two player 3D maze game which was available on a whole host of systems, such as the Atari and even the Vic 20! The game was way ahead of its time, and gave a … Continue reading →
Famous for the fantastic Crazy Comets and Mega Apocalypse, it was a honour to finally meet Simon Nicol at 2003’s BIT5 Brighton event. As well as talking about Mad Planets to Simon, Simon started conversation about a Car game which … Continue reading →
Recently highlighted in a recent interview in 2010 with David Crane, Retro Gamer issue 79 established from David Crane that the driving segments and car building scenes in the famous Ghostbusters game was originally meant for another game. Already in … Continue reading →
Cargo was a game which was being developed by Simon Nicol and Stavros Fasoulas under the Ducksoft Development label, and was meant for Firebird Software. We were first informed about the title (though without a title) by Simon’s friend Said … Continue reading →
UPDATE – Case closed, game is in Gamebase under a slightly different name: http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=2732 Advertised back in 1983 along with two other games that were released and are currently in Gamebase64, Cargo Run is unfortunately missing. The game was described … Continue reading →
Working title – this was compiled from some unknown source files labelled Cars. There is very little to see here apart from an expanded set of number sprites on the right hand side (indicating speed?) and a block sprite in … Continue reading →
An interesting title only really known about due to its very brief inclusion on Commercial Breaks (A BBC documentary from 1984 which documented on Imagine and Ocean, and saw the amazing collapse of Imagine as it happened – grab it … Continue reading →
Castle Fear was to be a sophisticated adventure with graphics and sound, as described by its advert in the December 1984 edition of Personal Computer Games. The aim was to try and find the stolen Golden Crown and Seven Diamonds … Continue reading →
Not to be confused with The Catacombs by Anirog that was released a few years earlier, this was to be a text adventure release in a nice large clam box by Classic Quests around 1986 time. This was something that … Continue reading →
A rather ambitious game from Martech on the C64 indeed… just look at the screenshots! The story goes as follows (Thanks to a CVG clipping).. “The game was to be a 3D vector graphic arcade adventure where you control a … Continue reading →
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