Games That Weren't^®

A short entry for a title that was briefly advertised in Commodore Format, and in particular issue 22 back in June/July 1992.

There were no details apart from listing the game as available for £4.00 on tape, and £8.50 on disk – with an Amiga version to be announced.

Two other games were also advertised such as Slap Fighter and Shoot Out! for a similar price. You had to send off a cheque to Middlesex, payable to PJR Laws.

When you look at the titles – could Slap Fighter = Slap and Tickle, Circuit Man = Transputer Man and Shoot Out! = Outlaw? Surely these were not repackaged versions of the games from SEUCK?

Thanks to the brilliant detective efforts of Phil Davies, we got hold of the developer Peter Laws – and he confirmed that his games were SEUCK based efforts. At the time Peter was only 17, so the memories have completely faded – but we do believe that this was indeed a rework of Outlaw. Sadly Peter has nothing of his work from those days.

Would still be interesting to see how different it was, so if you purchased the game – please get in touch!

Case closed!

A short entry for a title that was briefly advertised in Commodore Format, and in particular issue 22 back in June/July 1992.

There were no details apart from listing the game as available for £4.00 on tape, and £8.50 on disk – with an Amiga version to be announced.

Two other games were also advertised such as Slap Fighter and Shoot Out! for a similar price. You had to send off a cheque to Middlesex, payable to PJR Laws.

When you look at the titles – could Slap Fighter = Slap and Tickle, Circuit Man = Transputer Man and Shoot Out! = Outlaw? Surely these were not repackaged versions of the games from SEUCK?

Thanks to the brilliant detective efforts of Phil Davies, we got hold of the developer Peter Laws – and he confirmed that his games were SEUCK based efforts. At the time Peter was only 17, so the memories have completely faded – but we do believe that this was indeed a rework of Transputer Man. Sadly Peter has nothing of his work from those days.

Would still be interesting to see how different it was, so if you purchased the game – please get in touch!

Case closed!

A short entry for a title that was briefly advertised in Commodore Format, and in particular issue 22 back in June/July 1992.

There were no details apart from listing the game as available for £5.00 on tape, and £9.99 on disk – with an Amiga version available for £15.99.

Two other games were also advertised such as Circuit Man and Shoot Out! for a similar price. You had to send off a cheque to Middlesex, payable to PJR Laws.

When you look at the titles – could Slap Fighter = Slap and Tickle, Circuit Man = Transputer Man and Shoot Out! = Outlaw? Surely these were not repackaged versions of the games from SEUCK?

Thanks to the brilliant detective efforts of Phil Davies, we got hold of the developer Peter Laws – and he confirmed that his games were SEUCK based efforts. At the time Peter was only 17, so the memories have completely faded – but we do believe that this was indeed a rework of Slap and Tickle. Sadly Peter has nothing of his work from those days.

Peter mentioned that he had submitted the game to Alternative Software, but due to the limitations of SEUCK, they asked him to add features that were beyond its capabilities – therefore they pulled the plug. Peter then tried to sell the game briefly himself.

Would still be interesting to see how different it was, so if you purchased the game – please get in touch!

Case closed!

Yet another short entry, and probably a case open and closed before we even start.

This was to be a conversion of the Amiga helecopter game that was being created by Jason Perkins and later taken over by Miracle Games to be finished off after a bit of development hell. It was a neat update of the classic Choplifter game which many of you may recall: https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=75

Well, according to Gary Penn in issue 22 of Commodore Format, there were talks of doing a C64 version. Did those talks ever get any further? Was anything ever started?

Very unlikely, but as it was considered at least, so here is an entry for it. Would be amazing if there was something started wouldn’t it?

Do you know anything more about this potential conversion?

A possible vapourware title which has been brought to our attention by Richard Bayliss, who made a very good point that it was odd about there being a Sidewinder 2 game for the C64, but nothing of the original game.

So the question is whether a conversion was ever attempted for the original game at all – or if they just decided randomly to do a sequel conversion only at a later date.

With no evidence of any other 8-bit conversions or adverts for such a conversion, this could very much be an open and closed case. Does seem odd though that the sequel made it, but then look what happened with James Pond 2.