Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games for the Commodore 64 Since 1999
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An interesting entry for our next title. Activision have a history of different versions of their games existing – Wonderboy, Afterburner, Time Scanner, Enduro Racer, Karnov to name a few. Could Rampage have been yet another to add to the … Continue reading
What we have here with our next GTW entry is Miles Barry’s first C64 game which was started while Jason Kelk and Nigel Smith were crashing over his place for a week. The majority of superb graphics were done by … Continue reading
After flicking through some old C64 magazines, Commodore Computing International (January 1988) highlighted a rather strange preview shot of Rastan on the C64. Hold on… that main character looks a heck of a lot more like the arcade character – … Continue reading
Also known as: Airborne Ranger 2
Microprose were the kings of simulation, and Airbourne Ranger was another fine example of their brilliance back in the day. So you won’t be surprised to learn that a sequel was in development… Well, Ratpack was just that, and was … Continue reading
Also known as: Paranoid Pete 2
An early educational game aimed at young kids. Razzmatazz featured a sickly cute strawberry on legs and was surprisingly done by none-other than Rob Hubbard during his early C64 days, before music became his main source of income – where … Continue reading
A very quick entry for a surprise title which we never knew about until reading a snippet in ACE magazine about “Costly Games That Never Made it”. In that list was a game called Reach For The Moon, which apparently … Continue reading
A quick entry for a collection of educational titles that seem to be missing. The following were all advertised in the March 1984 issue of Family Computing magazine: Little People’s Puzzles – Things that go Little People’s Puzzles – Nursery … Continue reading
Jullian Gollup’s classic budget tactical combat was very well recieved. The budget game was an improved re-release of Rebelstar Raiders and pleased pretty much everyone at the time. It was pretty much Spectrum/Amstrad only and C64 users sadly didn’t get … Continue reading
Our next entry, Rebel Star 2 is a bit of an odd one as the first game never even got released on the C64 either. But sure enough the sequel was advertised by Silverbird in Zzap issue 44. After contacting … Continue reading
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
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