UPDATE! – Case closed! Game confirmed as released and preserved by Marco (Exile) Das and Genesis Project. See downloads. Early days, hence a very short entry. Contributor Jari Karjalainen has reported that in a DigitPress interview with Robert Jaeger (creator … Continue reading →
After completing work on the unreleased ATG and doing work for BMX Kidz, Paul Docherty was assigned to another Telecomsoft based title, this time a cheeky Super Mario Bros clone called Crucial Bros which was to be released by Silverbird … Continue reading →
As we were looking into The Mermaid and the Crown, we chanced across a series of unreleased titles from Mountain Valley Software that was ran by Brian J Betts during the early-mid 1980s. This was one of five titles in … Continue reading →
A graphic adventure game which promised hundreds of different screens, using a random generator to allow for up to 64K different views. This game was advertised in Personal Computer Games issue 13 way back in December 1984, but seemingly never … Continue reading →
You may be shocked to know, but there were two versions of Crystal Castles in development – both before the U.S. Gold release in later years. Atarisoft were doing an official conversion themselves back in the early 80’s of Crystal … Continue reading →
A separate and second prototype entry for what was intended to be the original AtariSoft release of Crystal Castles. Thanks to Mat Allen, we learn of the Atarisoft release thanks to Mat who documented the conversion briefly in Digital Press. … Continue reading →
Pretty gutted that I wasn’t able to play this one. Crystalopis is a very neat looking Boulderdash clone with some additional features which could have made this a very fun title to play. Ignoring the comments of the author not … Continue reading →
An interesting entry which ties in quite nicely with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes by the same company. Attack of the Mushroom People was to be based on one of those old really cheesy sci-fi movies which came out in … Continue reading →
A short entry for a Castle Software game that was advertised back in August 1983 in Compute! magazine (volume 5, issue 8). This has been highlighted thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog. We don’t know much about this game at … Continue reading →
Yet another Hewson based GTW enters the archives, this time with a C64 conversion of the Amiga game by Chris Hinsley. The game was a platform shooter that was reviewed by Zzap!64, but didn’t score particularly well – getting 45% … Continue reading →
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