Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games for the Commodore 64 Since 1999
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Speed Trap was a game being written by a guy called Alan Jesse, who also wrote a puzzle game called Quantum (released on Commodore Zone magazine) and also worked on a Trailblazer game that never saw the light of day … Continue reading
Also known as: Speedboat Assassins (on cover), 3D Boat Assassin (working title)
More from Mastertronic, this time from Binary Design who did a number of titles for the budget label. Speedboat Assassin was being worked on by Paul Gill and Haydn Dalton. Hayden was doing the graphics, with Paul Gill on the … Continue reading
Sphere is a sideways scrolling shooter, with collidable mountainous objects. Similar to Sanxion a little, with the ability to accellerate the scrolling. The game was started in 1987 by Ian and Michael Jones, in the hope of quickly pushing the … Continue reading
There is a Sphinx game in gamebase but I’m not sure if it’s the same one. I think this one might be a different one.”‹ “‹”‹ Not to be confused by the game of the same name by ALA Software, … Continue reading
A short entry for a title which was written by a young Tim Wright whilst he was at school. The game was called Spider Chase, and it was a Scramble clone which was sold only to kids in his playground. … Continue reading
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 – a multi-level treasure hunting type of game, where the aim was … Continue reading
Thanks to @andynick42 on Twitter for flagging up this title that was advertised in the US and was due to be released by Interstel, who have a number of titles already preserved in Gamebase64. Spin Out was to be an … Continue reading
Thanks to Jan Harries for highlighting this one, but when Rob Hubbard was asked to list all of the tunes he produced on the C64 – he turned up a few which never actually saw release (The game included). One … Continue reading
Also known as: S.P.I.X
Quite early, and a poor mismatch of graphics and sound mixed into this preview. The game feels like a random set of graphics and sprites bolted together to make a quick game. There doesn’t seem to be much about it, … Continue reading
A wonderful and surprising finding to enter the GTW64 archives, thanks to the efforts of Genesis Project in late February 2021. Splish Splash is a previously unknown game that was intended for release on the Mastertronic budget label back in … Continue reading
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