Cloak of death was to be a horror based text-adventure written by David Cockram with Argus Press and their Mind Games department. The description was as simple as “Starring Ghosts Galore, Spine Chilling, blood curdling, great gory graphics, Horror, Shock … Continue reading →
A very short entry for now regarding a game which was produced by Karl Hörnell during his Players Software development days. The game was called Clod Jumper, and would involve controlling a guy who could step inside a robot suit, … Continue reading →
Cobra was of course released on the C64 by Ocean Software in 1986, but Paul Hughes was a bigger fan of Joffa Smith’s awesome (and far better) Spectrum effort. So much so that just before joining Ocean, Paul started converting … Continue reading →
Collapsar was a cheeky little game which passed a certain resembalance to a classic Braybrook title. Not quite as polished as the original Uridium classic, it was the fact that it was a clone that scared potentual publishers off the … Continue reading →
A game which was advertised by The Learning Company in the manual for Bumble Plot, which was released. Described as “A brand new type of colouring book for young artists – children learn about colours, hues and matching. Ages 3-6” … Continue reading →
Advertised in many magazines, this was a title being sold by Anik Microsystems… however only two Anik games exist and seem to have been released on the C64. The advert describes the game as follows: "A fascinating game of logic … Continue reading →
Originally billed as the sequel to Psychedelia, Colourspace took Jeff Minter’s light show program to another level… but only on the Atari (and BBC we think..). The amazing limitless abilities to create various light effects to accompany your music collection … Continue reading →
Our next entry is a text adventure from 1986, which may well have been released – but has yet to be found and fully preserved. The game was released by Kalisti Enterprises for the C64, and the task was to … Continue reading →
Early days it may be as we attempt to find out more about yet another game that never was, we can in fact show a fair chunk of the game via some of its bitmap designs for levels and other … Continue reading →
The only information we originally had on this game comes from a CES show in Chicago, USA in 1987. Basically the game was to be a chess game, with the background being shown as a landscape. Avalon Hill made its … Continue reading →
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