Games That Weren't^®

After a fairly successful introduction, Flimbo was to be given another roll in his very own sequel called “Flimbo’s Quest 2”. The first mention of the sequel was actually in the end sequence of the first game.

This was to be a five level game with massive maps including beautiful parallax scrolling, graphics, animation and game play, improving much further over the original. The parallax scrolling was to be ditched, so the game could cope with sloped platforms. It was more of the same, but to be far more improved compared to the original game.

The Dutch developers of the sequel as well as the original, Laurens van de Donk and Arthur van Jole were still waiting to be paid by System 3 for the first game. Originally according to speculation, it was rumoured they both decided to halt work on the sequel after non-payment of the first game, and so Flimbo 2 was shelved. Actually, Arthur confirms its close, but in fact they were only offered about £1500 to do the game, and so it was cancelled.

Arther did level graphics only, but sadly these have been long lost. Only Laurens or someone else *might* have it tucked away somewhere… or something at least… but its not all lost…

Music was created and completed by none other than Reyn Ouwehand, and it is recently thanks to the guys at High Voltage Sid Collection in Christmas 2009 that we have got chance to listen to the tunes (See link at top now). Sadly there was no preview present with the tunes :-(

Thanks to iAN CooG for also supplying GTW with the correct SID file for the game (Which just has the one tune, compared to the initial release which incorrectly had more tunes). The original music demos were added in December 2015

Currently there sits a unfinished game in a playable stage, which GTW may possibly get some screenshots of and hopefully some exciting news one day… who knows. Sadly its not been good so far, Checks have been made to find the disks with the remains of the game, but sadly nothing has been found yet. Will anyone find anything?… We honestly don’t know… This could sadly be
lost forever… :(

Flimbo unfortunately lost this quest…

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.

We don’t know much about this game at present, and there doesn’t seem to be any acknowledgement of the game on the web.

So we can’t say too much at the moment :-)

Do you know more about this game?

Mentioned in "Illegal" pirate fanzine as something seen at PC 1988 show (or so it seems) by SSD of Cosmos.

We don’t know much about this game at present, and there doesn’t seem to be any acknowledgement of the game on the web.

So we can’t say too much at the moment :-)

Do you know more about this game?

We all may remember the sequel to Fire and Forget coming onto our C64 screens in the early 90’s, but the eagled eyed people out there will have realised that like with the likes of James Pond, only the sequel ever actually got a release.

The first game in the Fire and Forget series was sadly never to be seen on the C64.

C&VG in august 1988 had an advert by Titus which stated that the game was coming soon on all 8-bit home computers, including the C64. A review of the Amiga/ST version stated that the 8-bit versions won’t be appearing for a month or two, but will play very similar to the other versions on the 16-bits. This would remain to be seen I guess.

The Amstrad and Spectrum versions did manage to get out, but sadly the C64 never did surface for reasons currently unknown. You could say that the 16-bit versions flopped, but they didn’t and a sequel did make it instead. Very strange.

This will be an interesting title to try and dig up some information on. Fabrizio Bartoloni made the suggestion that the developer could be Jean-Charles Meyrignac, who did the early Crazy Cars games at the time for Titus. Perhaps he was to re-use the same engine to make the original Fire and Forget?