Games That Weren't^®

Capitaly was a version of Monopoly for the C64 which was written by Andras Baneth.

Andras had also worked on an unofficial Viking Child conversion for the C64, but mentioned this Monopoly game which he had also worked on.

It is believed that the game was complete, and was another production done unofficially and not for any company in particular.

The game was mentioned in ‘Commodore Ujsag” (see scans), a hungarian monthly for C64 enthusiasts in issue 10/1991. Andras had won a national programming competition with the program (as well as a Morse alphabet program). This gives us the date at least. We hope to get a scan of the article very soon!

We will continue to update this entry as we recieve more information. For now, the search begins. Get checking your disks!

This is nothing to do with the Anco game series of the same name, but this particular Kick Off game was to be a conversion of the Jaleco coin-op from 1988, suggesting that this game was due for release around 1988.

The coder was Paul Black (Of Dizzy Down the Rapids fame) and the game was fully completed. It was Paul’s first ever C64 development whilst he was teaching himself assembly language, and was an unofficial conversion, with no contact made with any companies to try and sell the game.

It was literally saved onto a cassette tape and forgotten about.

We are not sure how good the game was, but it is hoped that some day Paul may recover the game and allow us to put it on the website for others to check out. It may be rough round the edges due to being Paul’s first piece of work, but it would still be good to save this interesting piece of work from Paul’s work tapes/disks.

More soon we hope on this one!

A very quick entry which was picked up upon by browsing through Thomas Mogensen’s work directory in HVSC.

Within the directory was a tune labelled “My big brothers game”, which must have been a game being developed by Ole Mogensen. We at the moment don’t believe that this was intended for Prince of Darkness (another game done by Ole and Thomas), but a completely different game.

Thomas confirmed that the game was to be a Space Game with parallax shooting. This is all we know at the moment.

Watch this space!

A very quick entry which was picked up upon by browsing through Thomas Mogensen’s work directory in HVSC.

Within the directory are a large number of tunes for a game called Firefighter, which obviously must have been about firefighting. So was it a platforming game where you have to climb a building to put out fires? Was it a single screen game? Very early days and so little information at the moment.

We believe that the game was being developed back in 1992, based on the dates on Thomas’ tunes. The game was being developed by Ole Mogensen, who is Thomas’ brother.

Hopefully he’ll be able to shed some more light soon on the game.

A very quick entry which was picked up upon by browsing through Thomas Mogensen’s work directory in HVSC.

Within the directory are a large number of tunes for a game called 24th Amaranth GP, which we assume was to be a racing game (with cars or bikes?) that never quite made it.

We believe that the game was being developed back in 1991, based on the dates on Thomas’ tunes. We do not know who was to publish the game, who worked on it and exactly what happened.

Thomas confirms that the tunes were just a sketch to help towards an Amiga game of the same name being developed by a Danish company. No C64 game ever existed, so its a straight case closed!

Case closed!

A brief new entry which we kind of missed before – as the coder Mario Knezovic had mentioned it in one of his previous creator speaks for Seven Gates of Jambala.

At the same time as working on that C64 conversion for Thalion, Mario was also doing a conversion of the Alien Syndrome/Gauntlet clone called Leavin’ Termis (Or Leaving Termais). The game saw a release on the Amiga/ST back in 1990 and was a fairly well received game, though not the most popular overall.

Mario had got a small way through the game’s development, but was never properly assigned a graphic artist to help finish the work – and the game was scrapped as a result after taking too long to find someone. Mario had up until then done test graphics himself to be later replaced.

We know little more right now about the game, though the adverts never mentioned a C64 version it seems. It is hoped that Mario may have remains of the game, along with Lethal Xcess … we hope to try and find out very soon!

Back around 1985 time, Antony Crowther was working on a game based on the Red Arrows, which is another GTW which we have within our archives. In an interview with Commodore Horizons, Antony suggested that his next project would possibly include a game based on the Ray Harryhausen film, Clash of the Titans.

It was a very brief mention, and it seems unlikely that the idea never fully came to use. However, a game called Gryphon surfaced and could have been what the game turned out to be.

Maybe Gryphon started out as a completely different game? We hope to find out soon from Antony himself if he can recall anything and if this game ever got off the ground.

Otherwise if this was a separate and new idea, we don’t believe it got anywhere at all, as Tony suggests he only had two C64 games that were never finished or released.