Unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games for the Commodore 64.
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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 after … 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
Also known as: Airborne Ranger 2
Microprose were the kings of simulation, and Airbourne Ranger was another fine example of their brilliance back in the day. So you won’t be surprised to learn that a sequel was in development… Well, Ratpack was just that, and was … Continue reading
Our next entry, Rebel Star 2 is a bit of an odd one as the first game never even got released on the C64 either. But sure enough the sequel was advertised by Silverbird in Zzap issue 44. After contacting … Continue reading
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