Mega Games was infamously a batch of very exciting games that were once in production for the c64 and Spectrum, and were said by the press (and of course Imagine themselves) to be very ahead of their time, with some … Continue reading →
A very short entry for a title which may have been something advertised in early magazines. The game was to be released by Playsoft and seemed to be part of a series of 3 games in total which includes Infer, … Continue reading →
Incredibly rich from his exploits in Manic Miner and partying away in Jet Set Willy, the third instalment was apparently to see our intrepid hero up against the bane of the nouvelle riche, the tax office!… The actual name for … Continue reading →
A new and previously unknown game released into the Games That Weren’t archives with Memory Man, a game found by Csaba Virag on a series of disks. The game was developed in Hungary and doesn’t seem to be currently in … Continue reading →
After scanning through some inlays and bits, Andrew Fisher came across an advert for a new Players game called "Metal Army". The game was descrbied as follows Only one marine stands between the Metal Army and their evil plans of … Continue reading →
A great looking preview by all means. Metal Wars features bitmap scrolling, and looks really nice and detailed in this SEU. A lot like the graphical qualities of IO by Doug and Bob. The preview which has been out there … Continue reading →
A very quick entry, where contributor ‘Nicolas’ can recall seeing a C64 conversion of this early Cobrasoft game, which did see release on the Amstrad CPC: https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/meurtre_a_grande_vitesse.htm Nothing of the C64 edition can be found online, and with Nicolas being … Continue reading →
Mewlio is a point and click adventure game which takes place on the island of Martinique. Developed by French Software house "Coktel Vision", who only seem to ever have released Lucky Luke on the C64 (The French were big into … Continue reading →
Mexico 86 was a world cup management game by Qualsoft which saw a release on both the Amstrad and Spectrum (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0010592) but apparently was planned for the C64 too. We have very little else to go on, but this is … Continue reading →
Created by the developer of Gemini Wing on the C64, this seems to be an advert for Carl Wade’s coding abilities that was leaked out. the game is a sideways scroller with a nice scrolling background and a cool attack … Continue reading →
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