Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games for the Commodore 64 Since 1999
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Worron is a rather bizarre little title, which was never advertised, and only came about thanks to Richard Paynter getting in touch to shed some light on the title. Rick signed a contact with Firebird in October 1987 to complete … Continue reading
Mentioned in issue 1 of Zzap!64 in its adventure column, this Mastervision (Mastertronic) title (originally released by Carnell Software) was certainly due out for the C64 and was even advertised for American audiences (see scans). However, it never happened for … Continue reading
Also known as: Questprobe Number 4: X-Men
Only three games were released as part of Scott Adam’s Questprobe Series, but did you know that a 4th was on its way in the shape of X-Men? The game would be started by Scott Adams, but was never to … Continue reading
Nice and colorful to look at, but a over-sized logo cuts the game area to an almost silly size. The game is a side way scrolling SEU, and in typical old school fashion too. Quite possibly the logo is only … Continue reading
Xanagrams is a word game of sorts with over 5000 permutations. Basically a scrabble clone :) Patrick Furlong confirmed details of the game by mentioning that it was one of the 12 games given away with the Amstrad 464 so … Continue reading
Initially released on the Spectrum by Activision, before being re-released by Mastertronic, Xcel is described by Sinclair User as Star Trek, Space Invaders and Centipede rolled into one. Sadly the game is denied so not available for download on World … Continue reading
Xecutor is a pretty good vertical scrolling shooter which was released by ACE software (a sub company of The Edge) on the ZX Spectrum towards the end of 1987. The game was planned for release on the C64 just a … Continue reading
A small entry for now on what was reported to be another C64 game from Thalamus in 1989. Xenodrome we believe was a clone of Xenophobe being done by Thalamus, and was stated to be a C64 and 16-bit title … Continue reading
The Bitmap Brothers were one of the first companies to explore the potential of 16-bit systems such as the Amiga, and many regard Xenon II: Megablast is the peak of this. This vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up featured advanced graphics and … Continue reading
I’m not entirely sure why we haven’t added this entry to the archive much sooner, as we’ve been aware of this set of pictures from Robin Levy for many years now. Xenophobia was first highlighted to GTW by the late … Continue reading
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