This was recently brought to my attention by Jason Kelk, who spotted an advert for the game “It’s Rory” in an early Llamasoft advert in 1985. We know very little about the game itself and just have this little portion … Continue reading →
I’ve cheated a little with this entry to save time, but I had an email from Francesco Milioni today, who helps with the site Edicola 8 bit and looks to find out the original titles for pirated games in Italy. … Continue reading →
In the year of 1987, Computer Novels should have been released a game named ‘Ivanhoe’, but it was never to be released. The Commodore 64-version should have been released in October 1987 and the Amiga-version the next month. Computer Novels … Continue reading →
Our next game comes in the form of the unfinished Jailbreak by Michael J L(Wanderer), a programmer for the C64 under groups such as Rampar and The Survivors. The idea as the name suggests was to break out of prison … Continue reading →
A very quick entry on a game which we know very little about at present. The game was a type-in which was submitted to BigK magazine and was about to be published, but the magazine went under just before it … Continue reading →
Issue 5 of Commodore Format first introduced news that James Pond was to be converted on the C64 from the classic Amiga game. Apart from the terrible fish jokes that CF told, the prospect of seeing the game was rather … Continue reading →
Not to be confused with the Derek Brewster game of the same name. This was to be a game by Troy Lyndon for a company called FunSoft back in the 80’s. For reasons currently unknown, FunSoft buried the game once … Continue reading →
A very quick entry to cover a title which is currently at large. Jeeps is an educational game which was advertised in an 1984 May edition of Home Computer Weekly. The game was to be distributed by Regency Software, but … Continue reading →
J.Morrison Micros was a very early development company that produced games for the Commodore 64 such as Bonka, Cybermen and Vultures … unfortunately they disappeared rather quickly too. In issue 86 of Home Computer Weekly, another game called Jellybones was … Continue reading →
A very old school type of game here, with a main jet which has to be guided through a series of caverns. This is similiar in a way to Killer Watt, though lacking a lot of what that game had … Continue reading →
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