Unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games for the Commodore 64.
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A very short entry, as technically this was released – but only briefly! Rocket Roger had a reputation of being a rock hard game, but it also went through two iterations! Initially when previewed and briefly sold at a PCW … Continue reading
A quick entry for a title that was spotted in a catalogue for Ringside/EAS Software/Procovision by Martin/Stadium64. This was a puzzler style game which was a bit similar to Pengo. http://www.mobygames.com/game/roll-out Versions were released for the Amiga and ST, but … Continue reading
Think Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy, and add some Roller Coasters and some bits of theme park, and you have what is essentially Roller Coaster by Elite. A brilliant little game which got rave reviews on the Spectrum and Amstrad, but … Continue reading
Also known as: Rommel
Rommel: Battles for Tobruk by Games Designers’ Workshop (GDW) was planned to be a war strategy game, based around four battles fought between the WWII German commander Rommel and the British in North Africa. Our evidence for the Commodore 64 … Continue reading
A quick entry for a title which was to be an Electronic Novel for Broderbund and Synapse. Where most of the planned titles were released and coded by Joe Viera (http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php?a=5&f=1&id=1963&d=18&h=0), the rest of them for some reason never quite … Continue reading
Take a bit of Platoon level 1 style action, and take the sprites from Software Project’s "Hysteria", and you get "Runestone". This is another early game from the brains of Colditz and Fuzzball, Miles Barry. The game features sprites were … Continue reading
A sort of “Lords of Midnight” type affair which got a release by Firebird on its “Hot Range” back in 1985, and in particular on the ZX Spectrum. A young Chris Yates and Jon Hare were just getting started in … Continue reading
Our next title was found on a development disk that was likely given to Cory Kin by Mat Sneap back in the Compunet days. There isn’t anything playable unfortunately, but it seems that Mat Sneap produced a range of graphics … Continue reading
Following successful conversions of Defender Of The Crown and Rocket Ranger, Cinemaware were also due to release a conversion of S.D.I game for the C64. The game was advertised in some of the popular computer magazines of the time, and … Continue reading
Sabian Island seems to be yet another game that was advertised to buy through mail order from a software company, without actually having ever being released. I don’t know how many games were ‘released’ as such in the 1980s but … Continue reading
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