Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games for the Commodore 64 Since 1999
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Scooter was one of a few titles advertised by Electric Dreams back in issue 8 of Zzap 64 games. Nuclear Nick was to be part of a double pack with a game called Scooter. It never quite surfaced, but after … Continue reading
It was back in 1985, way before the days of Doom or Wolfenstein, when a young Antony Crowther began working on a 3D game which you ran around a 3D maze blasting various bad guys. Some progress was made, but … Continue reading
Ski Star 2000 was a 3D graphic ski simulation that was released on the ZX Spectrum and was written by Pete Cooke. An entry exists on the World of Spectrum. The game was fairly well recieved, but is not considered … Continue reading
A very very quick placeholder entry of sorts for a game briefly mentioned in an article with John Darnell by Martyn Carroll in Retro Gamer magazine. In the article, John mentioned working on a game called “Sleepwalker” for Software Projects … Continue reading
Smurfs is a game which was the creation of a then 15yr old Carl Muller, and was pitched to various companies, such as US Gold, Melbourne House and Firebird. Sadly US Gold and Firebird rejected Carl, but Melbourne House eventually … Continue reading
We have to find this one!…. According to the game’s creator, this was heavily inspired by one of my favourite Vic 20 games of all time, Myraid by Rabbit Software. This was infact released on the C16 by Bug Byte, … Continue reading
Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. Sorderon’s Shadow: The Legend of Elindor was a title by Nick Eatock and Simon Welland that was a sort of … Continue reading
You all remember Reflective Designs and the various games produced and coded by Duncan Kershaw for Players, Zeppelin and Codemasters? Well, we all have to start out somewhere – and Duncan first got into coding on the C64 by programming … Continue reading
Also known as: Labyrinth
A title which we have somewhat overlooked until someone resurrected the forum post on Lemon 64… Space Talisman (Or Labyrinth as its also known) is an early version of Hero Of The Golden Talisman, which is quite a bit different, … Continue reading
A wonderful and surprising finding to enter the GTW64 archives, thanks to the efforts of Genesis Project in late February 2021. Splish Splash is a previously unknown game that was intended for release on the Mastertronic budget label back in … Continue reading
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