Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games for the Commodore 64 Since 1999
Archive A-Z links | Search archive
220 results for: Year = 1989
(Refine search)
An interesting game demo finding on Ashley Routledge’s disks recently came in the shape of Quantarallax, which is an early Delta sort of clone that never seemed to get released. The game was developed by Quantum Designs, who consisted of … Continue reading
Our next entry into the archives is an obscure sideways scrolling game where you control Eddie, whose great passion is hang gliding. The game got mentioned recently in a new thread on Lemon64. The adventure begins with news of the … Continue reading
The source of this next entry is interesting as it was mentioned in “Illegal” pirate fanzine as something seen at PC 1988 show (or so it seems) by SSD of Cosmos. Quondam was an arcade shoot-em-up written by Denton Designs, … Continue reading
Well, it seems it may well have been in production for the old breadbin, even after the mess of the first game. Issue #59 of Zzap 64 announced that Activision had gained the licence for R-Type 2, and work was … Continue reading
Our next entry is a title that was apparently intended for Firebird, though it may have been wishful thinking. Was it ever submitted to Firebird, who in 1989/90 were changing into MicroProse software? The game itself seems to have never … Continue reading
What we have here with our next GTW entry is Miles Barry’s first C64 game which was started while Jason Kelk and Nigel Smith were crashing over his place for a week. The majority of superb graphics were done by … Continue reading
Our next entry was flagged up by Gamebase64, as we’re not actually sure if the game ever saw a full release or not. Maybe you can help us? The game has been within the digital archives since its supposed release … Continue reading
A quick entry for a title that was spotted in a catalogue for Ringside/EAS Software/Procovision by Martin/Stadium64. This was a puzzler style game which was a bit similar to Pengo. http://www.mobygames.com/game/roll-out Versions were released for the Amiga and ST, but … Continue reading
Saigon Combat Unit is a sideways scrolling game in a similar mould to Green Beret, and was a budget release due from Zeppelin games. A C64 version was actually being developed, and this was confirmed by instructions from the released … Continue reading
SAW Wars was a tongue in cheek game written by Ben Hayes before his days at Enigma Variations. Ben described things in an interview as follows: "Sort of a right to left shoot-em-down thing. There was a point to the … Continue reading
DISCLAIMER: We are a non-profit digitisation project, aiming to digitally preserve software and history which would otherwise be lost for good. If for any reason there is anything that you do not wish to be on the website, please contact us for removal.
Games That Weren't® is the registered trademark of Frank Gasking.
