Unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games for the Commodore 64.
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Another quick entry … A news item in Commodore User back in 1988 mentioned that Origin Systems would be releasing a game called Prototank on the C64. However, nothing surfaced – and no evidence seems to exist of it on … Continue reading
Psionic was an intriguing title which was being developed by Robert Trevellyan, who later went on to work for Bitmap Bros and produce the likes of Speedball 2 on the Amiga. His first commercial venture was for this game at … Continue reading
Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. Pyramids Of The Sun was the follow-up to Castle Blackstar, and was set for release in October 1984. Chris’ feature … Continue reading
A potentially stunning SEU was in development back in 1988, not specifically for Elite Software, but seeing as the game’s two developers were working at Elite, we can see where they wished the game had gone. Richard Underhill struck up … Continue reading
Quo Vadis was to be a German adventure with animated graphics and some other nice little features. The vocabulary wasn’t that big (200 words), but the game was judged as a good solid adventure game with excellent animated graphics. The … Continue reading
The famous sideways scroller R-Type was in fact released on the C64 by Electric Dreams, but a different version to what was originally planned and was being worked on. Our first real knowledge of something being slightly odd was … Continue reading
Some of you may have seen this game released on another label in Europe in the early 90’s, but what you don’t know is that this game infact was due for release on the Firebird label around 1988/89. Sadly, the … Continue reading
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