Unreleased and cancelled video games for the Commodore 64.
188 results for: Year = 1987
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Dinamic had struck gold with Imagine when they began having their games published on their label. Classics such as Army Moves, and the not so classic Game Over (although the music rocked!).. and also this strange little effort which got … Continue reading
Yet another unreleased Codemasters game! … But this time from early on in their life in 1987. Phantomas was to be a conversion of the released spectrum game where you control a robber in a Manic Miner/Dizzy kind of game. … Continue reading
An old case for GTW this time, with a game that seems to be a mixture of Ocean’s obscure "Tank" game and an old Codemasters game. It’s not known if this game was being created for a specific company, or … Continue reading
Another GTW entry for Kele Line games, for more on their background check out the entry for Force of the Vulcan. Pirates of the Ocean was one of four games slated for release by Kele Line in 1987, alongside Force … Continue reading
An interesting game based on the Playboy magazine, which was being developed by Wijo Koek and John Vanderaart for Radarsoft back in 1987. The game was believed to have been a kind of business simulator, where you must try and … Continue reading
This may well be a red herring, but ACE magazine’s review of the Spectrum game by Mastertronic suggests that a C64 conversion may have been considered. We’ll keep things short for now until we get further confirmation, but you can … Continue reading
This early C64 game is a very promising sort of Xevious clone with futuristic backgrounds. It’s very glitchy in places, but it seemed to be shaping up nicely at the time. We guess that the game got leaked out, and … Continue reading
This was a bi-directional SEU with some nice graphics by Simon Probert (Simes of Cosine, currently in Australia) and code by Jason Kelk with no sound, although Simon was to do this. The game progressed from some early code by … Continue reading
PT-109 was based around the World War II patrol boat that John F. Kennedy served on. An article in Commodore Magazine (Dec 1988) had the following to say: “Spectrum HoloByte 6-1/128: PT-109, an amazing patrol boat simulation, is scheduled for … Continue reading
Yet another Martech game into the archives, and one which is surrounded in mystery!… Just what exactly was this game about? CVG had this to say about the game, along with some screenshots which you can find under “Scan shots” … Continue reading
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