Games That Weren't^®

PT-109 was based around the World War II patrol boat that John F. Kennedy served on. An article in Commodore Magazine (Dec 1988) had the following to say:

“Spectrum HoloByte 6-1/128: PT-109, an amazing patrol boat simulation, is scheduled for September release. This authentic re-creation of WWII PT boat operations is top-notch. You have to deal with enemy submarines and aircraft, as you search for battleships and other mighty vessels.

If you’re a history buff, PT-109 allows you to perform 45 mis sions typical of the period. These assign ments can be day or night scenarios, and the more difficult ones simulate the early days of the war iwhen the lightly-armored craft didn’t always carry what it took to gel home). Your armaments include: torpedos, cannon, submachine guns, depth charges, etc. By the way, light rockets were actually used late in the war to pro tect the boats from air strikes.

You will also find them in certain game scenarios. The program also contains: four areas of action (New Guinea, Phillipine Islands, Solomon Islands and the Mediterranean Sea), four 90-degree views, detailed dam age reports, map displays, control panels and gauges, the ability to see things through binoculars, and the option to save a game in progress. You can even perform the same heroic mission in the Solomon Islands that made an unknown skipper named John F. Kennedy famous. PT-109 contains incredible graphics, great sounds and historical authenticity”

Although the game was released on the PC/Mac in 1987, the planned C64 conversion never surfaced unfortunately. The game was fairly well recieved – so it seems a shame.

We know little more at this point, but maybe you can help shed some light?

An early game featuring the early graphics of Martin Holland. This was mentioned breifly to me by Martin in an Interview, and it has been named a few times by other collegues of Martin’s… but this is it.

From what has been told, Psycho Warrior FMB was an OP Wolf style title which had a lot of *hidden* meaning in its title, with the FMB infamously standing for Fucking Mad Bastard. Just how they almost got away with that one is beyond me! :)

Anyway, sadly it is unknown about much of this game at the moment, though more light will hopefully be shed soon. It is known that the game spawned the idea of Psycho Glider FMB, and started its own series in a funny little way.

Strange though that neither game made it out in the end, quite possibly because Lothlorien went under before they could get released.

More research needed for this title, like who programmed it! :)

Richard back in 2000 was working on a game project called Psycho Baby. Unfortunately due to a horrible disk error a lot of the game was lost and Richard decided not to go any further.

The game was basically a simple bomb ’em game, where you had to bomb tanks and stuff and was shot back by them. A single screen game which wasn’t anything particularly special.

It would have been nice to find something of the game to preserve, but sadly it seems this is completely lost. Maybe Richard has some music or bits and pieces that were part of the game, but its unlikely.

Seems like it is an open and shut case for this one…

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 any other system. Is there a possibility that this game become “Omega“, which they later released?

Do you know anymore about this game?…

A sequel to a fairly popular tennis game on the C64 was due according to the Amiga review in one of the popular magazines of the time. The review stated that "A C64 version may follow in several month’s time"

Well, several months followed and sadly nothing ever surfaced. We guess that in those several months that Ubi-soft decided it was time to leave the C64 as the market was dying out and left the game just for Amiga/ST owners. A shame, as the Amiga/ST versions scored well into the 80’s, percent wise.

It asks the question whether anything was actually started on a C64 conversion or if it was just at a planning stage. We have sadly no leads at the moment for this particular game.

Can you help us?…

Project Stealth Fighter was one of Microprose’s excellent simulators, this one being based around the American Stealth Fighter and the C64 version was a good conversion.

A ZZAP feature on Microprose Software mentions various versions of their software including Pirates and Project Stealth Fighter. The article states that there was a version 8 making use of faster algorithms and improved gameplay.

Nothing else was heard of this new version. If we can find out who was programming the conversion, then we might be able to find out if there was anything playable written and if so, if anything still exists.

Very quick entry, but mentioned in a 1997 edition of Commodore Scene was that a company called Project 64 were working on 4 full price titles

Unfortunately we no nothing about the games themselves, maybe you know more?

Very very early days for this entry!