Unreleased and cancelled video games for the Commodore 64.
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Disney’s animated film of the Rudyard Kipling Jungle Book stories was a big hit, In 1985, magazine news articles promised a series of games based on the Jungle Book characters. Other titles discussed in the same news piece were The … Continue reading
According to Commodore Computing International in December 1988, Active Distribution LTD had made a marketing deal with French company Coktel Vision. The first game to be released was Jungle Book. The game was to be an adventure game for children. … Continue reading
Thanks to Jazzcat for the heads up about this game, which was shown recently on the developer’s website. The idea of the game was to get all of the fruit on the level, but whilst not opening the cage with … Continue reading
Another combined entry for a series of titles from K-TEK Software, which may or may not have been released. At present the following titles are missing: Stomp Ground – FOUND thanks to Allan Pinkerton, see downloads! Sky Diving – FOUND … Continue reading
A short entry for a title that was briefly listed as coming soon on the back of another released game. Karate was one of a series of games from KAB Software, which seems to stand for Kevin A Burk software. … Continue reading
Electric Dreams/Activision seemed to have a bit of a knack of having cancellations, but also games which when eventually released, looked far different to the preview screenshots shown in the press early on. Like with Time Scanner and R-Type, you … Continue reading
One of the best blasters ever and it’s not too hard to see where the inspiration for Katakis came from. This is a blatant R-Type clone, featuring almost identical backdrops and power-ups, right down to the bolt-on/send-ahead drone that does … Continue reading
Whilst flicking through an old Sinclair User magazine from May 1985, Mark R Jones spotted an advert for World Series Baseball, which listed a game called Key To Success as coming soon for the Commodore 64. This is the first … Continue reading
This is nothing to do with the Anco game series of the same name, but this particular Kick Off game was to be a conversion of the Jaleco coin-op from 1988, suggesting that this game was due for release around … Continue reading
A very quick entry until we get more information, but when Sales Curve was first started out, one of the first titles they were to develop was a conversion of Kid Nikki. However, the idea was very quickly dropped and … Continue reading
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