Unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games for the Commodore 64.
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Recon is a sort of cross between Uridium and Paradroid, where you control a ship moving over a dreadnought horizontally – but not flying. The game was started in the hope of quickly pushing the demo around publishers to get … Continue reading
Another lost Antony Crowther game, and mentioned in an interview many moons ago. This was to be an official game linked with the Red Arrows RAF display team. Antony at the time said the following: “They’ve asked us to write … Continue reading
Red Scorpion was a rather poor Spectrum (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004076) and Amstrad 3D game that got fairly slated in the press. It was published by Quicksilva and is basically a souped up Battlezone clone, but lacking the soup. The game adverts mentioned … Continue reading
Renegade was was an attempt to push the Robotron style of multi-directional shoot-’em-up into more advanced territory, and on the C64 in particular! The game was to borrow heavily from the movie Aliens. It featured interconnected rooms filled with eggs, … Continue reading
Thanks to Mark R Jones for highlighting this early development of Renegade on the Ocean Software Facebook page. Of course, Renegade did see release on the C64, but according to a preview write up in Commodore User, there was only … Continue reading
If you look at the games released for the Commodore 64, you’ll notice that we got a conversion of the BBC Micro classic, Repton… or actually, Repton 3 to be precise. You see, the first two games never actually got … Continue reading
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Resource Software International, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog. These were Commodore 64 titles listed … Continue reading
It seems that the sequel to Design Design’s classic The Hall of the Things was intended for release on the Commodore 64 too! Thanks to contributor Einar, we learn that Design Design had an advert which listed the C64 edition … Continue reading
A slightly different GTW this time, with us looking for a magazine listing from BigK magazine. The BigK magazine only ran for 12 issues and from issue 8 to issue 12, for the listings they had in their magazine, they … Continue reading
Yet another game in development for the C64 by Martech, and late into its C64 life. This was a rather special Spectrum game which sadly didn’t recieve the recognition it deserved (although it was flagged up in Retro Gamer magazine … Continue reading
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