A very quick entry for a title we know very little about at present, but was advertised in Personal Computer Games 1984 (Issue 8) by Visions Software. Nifty Lifty was advertised by Visions for the C64, BBC Micro and ZX … Continue reading →
J.Morrison Micros was a very early development company that produced games for the Commodore 64 such as Bonka, Cybermen and Vultures … unfortunately they disappeared rather quickly too. In issue 86 of Home Computer Weekly, another game called Nightflight was … Continue reading →
A very quick entry to cover what seems to be a James Bond title which got caught up in the video game collapse of 1984. According to online sources, Parker Bros were planning to release a game based on the … Continue reading →
Confirmed by JDP (who can search Gamebase64 far better than I!) that these were in fact released on the C64 in some shape or form and can be downloaded from here: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=5595&d=18&h=0 http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=5414&d=18&h=0 Case closed!
An interesting looking title which looks a lot like Dicky’s Diamonds, but was a US based release that was going to be on cartridge back in early 1984. The game was reviewed by Electronic Fun with Computers and Games magazine, … Continue reading →
We’ve been on a roll recently (thanks to Peter Weighill) with a number of large company collections of games which have seemingly never seen the light of day, or they are just very obscure. Our next set is from Orbyte … Continue reading →
A very quick open and closed case. Alpha Omega’s Orpheus game of the same name was actually intended to be released back in 1984 by Sterling Software, but it seems the company may have collapsed before it got out. However, … Continue reading →
First Star are famous for some fantastic C64 games, such as the Spy vs. Spy and Boulderdash series and many more. Along with these fantastic titles there seems to be a few which got away too. One such title that … Continue reading →
Paranoid Pete is a space harvesting action game which was released on the Spectrum way back in 1984. Personal Computer Games advertised the game and clearly you can see that a Commodore 64 version was in the pipeline. Although the … Continue reading →
Peace was a war based simulation game being produced in Italy back in 1984. It was flagged up to us by Fabrizio Bartoloni after a YouTube clip from an 1984 TV show Orecchiocchio was uploaded with a clip from the … Continue reading →
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