Golden Path
1987 Firebird
Hmmm, not quite sure just yet if this was just a mere mistake in a US based catalogue, but the classic Amiga title – Golden Path was listed as being sold for the C64 in a Spring 1987 catalogue by … Continue reading
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Goremium
1987 Greve Graphics
- Coding: Bengt Caroli
- Graphics: Bengt Caroli (?)
- Sound: Lars Hård
Also known as: Goreemium - The Rise of Nothingness
An interesting title which has been flagged up by Mikael Lundvall. This was to be the last game produced by Swedish company Greve Graphics and was going to be released in 1987, but surprise surprise it never happened! Details on … Continue reading
Gravity
1987 Unknown
- Coding: John Vanderaart
- Graphics: Unknown
- Sound: Unknown
Gravity was strangely to be a game about Graffiti – but you wouldn’t have guessed it from the title! It was a title written by John Vanderaart – but are not sure who for! The game was described by Dutch … Continue reading
Great Giana Sisters
1987 GO!
- Coding: Armin Gessert
- Graphics: Manfred Trenz
- Sound: Chris Huelsbeck
The Commodore 64 has received many memorable games over the years, and none so much as The Great Giana Sisters, but for all the wrong reasons. Created by Armin Gessert, with graphics by Manfred Trenz back in 1987, Giana Sisters … Continue reading
Gyro Shoc
1987 Lynsoft
- Coding: Chris Young
- Graphics: Chris Young
- Sound: N/A
Also known as: Gyroshoc
Some of you may remember a little game from the covermount of Commodore Zone some years back, called Quota, a neat little game. Created by the talented Chris Young around 1989, Chris had previously been working on a game before … Continue reading
Habitat
1987 Lucasfilm
- Coding: Chip Morningstar, Randy Farmer, Aric Wilmunder, Janet Hunter (Q-Link system programmer)
- Graphics: Gary Winnick, Ken Macklin
- Sound: Chris Grigg
- Other: Charlie Kellner (technical contributions), Chip Morningstar (Project leader, programmer and principal designer), Ron Gilbert (the original Commodore object memory manager), Noah Falstein (support), David Fox (support), Douglas Crockford (support), David Levine (support), Mary Paterno (support), Chris Werner (support), David Martin (support), Jamie Williams (Official Avatar Hanbook), Chip Morningstar (Official Avatar Hanbook), Nancy Mohler (Production manager), Doug Coward (Q-Link tech support), Mike Ficco (Q-Link tech support), Ken Huntsman (Q-Link tech support), Rob Martyn (managed operations), Cathy Anderson (Quantum Project schedule coordination), Marc Seriff (technical manager at Qunatum)
Habitat was a glimpse into the future way back in 1987, and was to take the SCUMM engine of Maniac Mansion and push it into an online world. The game was to be multi-player based and used in conjunction with … Continue reading
Halo Jones
1987 Piranha
Also known as: The Ballard of Halo Jones
Following on from a series of 2000AD themed games, Halo Jones was the next in line from Piranha on their ambitious (And eventually fateful) climb forwards in the games market. Halo Jones was rather different to the other titles, and … Continue reading
History Package
1987 Duncan Bowen School
- Coding: Unknown
- Graphics: Unknown
- Sound: Unknown
- Other: Jim Fanning
Our next entry is thanks to Gareth Pitchford, who spotted in issue 40 of Your Commodore magazine details of a History title that was being created in The Quill. It was mentioned in a small article on educational games. The … Continue reading
Hollywood Poker
1987 Diamond Software
Apparently not to be confused with the release by Golden Games back in the same year, or is it? … We’re not too sure, but it seems a co-incidence that there would be two Hollywood Poker games released around the … Continue reading
Hyper Galactic Warrior
1987 Ian Moran
Hyper Galactic Warrior is a title that has been around for some time, possibly first surfacing on Compunet as a preview. The game is a Uridium clone, of which there were plenty at the time. This suggests the game is … Continue reading
