Games That Weren't 64^®

Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. Terror Tunnels was first mentioned in the news pages of Zzap!64 issue 4 as a game due for release from … Continue reading →

The Battle Of Chickamauga was going to be a stragetic war game, of which there are many on the C64. Its scheduled release was for 1987, by Games Designers’ Workshop (GDW), an American company who already had a fine pedigree … Continue reading →

A rather old Probe game is next up, and from the depths of 1985 to be precise. The Devils Crown is an explorationg based game where you go under the sea to explore a sunken ship for treasure. CPC Reviews … Continue reading →

The Doomsday Papers was originally an Adventure game release on the ZX Spectrum by a newly formed software house from two teenagers Matthew Holmes and Andrew (Unknown surname), with the software house name "Matand" being a combination of both their … Continue reading →

In April 1985, an issue of Commodore Horizons (Page 33) mentioned a particular adventure collection called "The Gold Collection", which was seven games that were to be marketed by Gilsoft and written with the aid of The Quill. These would … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a licence that would never actually get used in the end. Elite Software were pretty on the ball along with Ocean Software back in the day, getting hold of high profile licences such as Airwolf … Continue reading →

A quick entry to cover part of a series of games which DK’Tronics were looking to release in late 1984, early 1985. A news item in the December 1984 edition of Personal Computer Games suggested that following on from a … Continue reading →

The Tripods was to be a graphic adventure game based on the John Christopher novels / BBC TV adaption, featuring creatures which look like something out of War of the Worlds. The adverts mentioned that the game would promise something … Continue reading →