A short entry for a title that was flagged up thanks to Ross Sillifant. Gung-Ho! was a title that was drawn up and story-boarded by Tim Best, which was set in the jungle and lots of shooting. Activision managed to … Continue reading →
Some of you may remember a little game from the covermount of Commodore Zone some years back, called Quota, a neat little game. Created by the talented Chris Young around 1989, Chris had previously been working on a game before … Continue reading →
Habitat was a glimpse into the future way back in 1987, and was to take the SCUMM engine of Maniac Mansion and push it into an online world. The game was to be multi-player based and used in conjunction with … Continue reading →
A quick entry to cover part of a series of games which DK’Tronics were looking to release in late 1984, early 1985. A news item in the December 1984 edition of Personal Computer Games suggested that following on from a … Continue reading →
Palace Software started as a division of the Palace Video company, which had a large shop in London and distribution rights to several horror films. This included The Evil Dead, and Palace’s first game was based on that film. However, … Continue reading →
Following on from a series of 2000AD themed games, Halo Jones was the next in line from Piranha on their ambitious (And eventually fateful) climb forwards in the games market. Halo Jones was rather different to the other titles, and … Continue reading →
Hareraiser was a game based on the book Masquerade, and was sold with the aim of gamers trying to win a prize. A final game was produced called “Hareraiser – Finale” where it would help you solve the first puzzle … Continue reading →
Another combined entry to search for titles which may have been released, but have not yet been preserved. Thanks to Bertrand / Atari Mania, an advert was flagged up from Home Computer Magazine in 1984 with a list of tiles … Continue reading →
Hawkeye 2 was something that original coder Mario van Zeist wanted to realise, with better graphics, sound and more added twists to the gameplay. It was going to be released under the Thalamus label, but was never completed due to … Continue reading →
A very quick entry until we get more details, but this was to be a planned 3rd game in the series of the Yesod games by Odin. Unfortunately it only got as far as a proposal on 3 sheets of … Continue reading →
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