Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games for the Commodore 64 Since 1999
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It’s 1996 and games on the C64 are slowly drying up completely, the enthusiasm of creating new C64 games for mail order sale was dying too. Fanzines were the only real hope in the UK of any progress for the … Continue reading
Save Those Janitors was an action video game where you had to rescue 9 stranded janitors aboard an orbiting nuclear reactor before food runs out. It was advertised in a 1992 issue of RUN magazine from the US. The game … Continue reading
Sounds like a fight that has broken out in a Chemistry lab, but the game doesn’t quite resemble that in this sideways shoot-em-up. Quite a fair bit has been done for this game, all but the actual game itself. We’ve … Continue reading
After Turrican 2 and before Turrican 3 by Protovision and Smash Designs, another Turrican clone was being formed with a different main character. "Scorpion" was hoping to take off from where Turrican 2 left off and continue the craze of … Continue reading
When the C64 was dying out commercially, Jon Wells was trying to flood the C64 with new releases. One of his ideas was to take the entire backcatalogue of Clive Wilson adventure titles and update them with new graphics, music … Continue reading
The sequel to First Samurai was to be programmed by Vivid Image’s sister division known as MirrorSoft, straight after the first game was released. The people who were intended for the conversion were Mat Sneap and Jon Williams. The C64 … Continue reading
Our next entry is a very good graphic adventure which is controlled with a joystick to move around different rooms and interact. Similar to games like BAT and Crime Time. This was a relatively late C64 game in its commercial … Continue reading
Sector seems to be a very early stage puzzle shuffle game which was left to rot for reasons unknown. It looks colourful and well designed enough, but it’s an idea which has been seen many times over already. Did the … Continue reading
A surprise discovery when browsing the Gamebase 64 archive, with a simple but neat shooter by Mikael Tillander, the creator of Knight n Grail. This was a very early development by him, which has some lovely animations and has you … Continue reading
This is likely to be yet another vapourware title … but worth adding none the less… Steve Perry once won a competition with Commodore Format and met up with one of the editors called Andy (Hutch) Hutchinson. When talking to … Continue reading
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