Games That Weren't^®

More simple space shooting now with Genocide – a sideways scrolling blaster over a cool starfield effect.

It’s a bit like Roy Fielding’s Frantic, but with not much going on at this stage. There are some attack waves, but no real gameplay at this seemingly early stage.

Was there more to it? Who was behind the game?

Another later in life C64 game which seems to have fallen by the wayside in the shape of a modernized Galaga clone.

It seems that this particular preview is a little broken, as the background is white and pretty garish. We’re sure that it should be black.

There is a great starfield effect and a few attack waves, before you hit a guardian that you can’t seem to kill.

A great looking game which sadly seems to have been abandoned. Can the coder confirm and shed some light on if it got any further?

Controlling what looks like a sprite from one of Alf Yngve’s Cyforce game, this is another static preview with some pretty backdrops and no real substance.

There are some sprite waves chucked in, but nothing much else at this stage. No scrolling or other features.

Did the coder get bored early on with this game, or was there much more to it at a later stage?

With a coder credit, we hope to find out more soon!

An early preview from 1987 this time, and a fairly simple Sprint clone with hi-res graphics.

This was at a time that Super Sprint was making its debut on the C64 from the arcades, and was looking a lot glossier than this particular effort from Paolo. The controls are also a little odd, as you press the direction you wish to travel, rather than rotate left and right and thrust forward.

And that could well be the reason why the game never surfaced in the end.

Of course, only Paolo will know – so we hope to get hold of him soon to confirm what happened to his game.

Not likely to have been anything official, someone took it on themselves to try and do a conversion of the PC football simulator of the same name and seemed to have a good crack of it.

There seems to be plenty of game mechanics in place, so our guess is that the game stalled due to real life commitments.

With a coder credit, we hope to find out more about the game and what the plans were exactly for it.

Watch this space!

Have a guess what this game is about.

As no doubt you will have guessed (and no, there isn’t a prize!) it is another match the pairs game – which was a pretty popular thing on the C64 back in the mid to late 90’s.

This seems ok enough, though rather than using joystick you have to use keys to match pairs, which is pretty clunky.

Did it get any further? We’re not sure. It seems fairly complete at this stage, so maybe this was it?

An unofficial conversion of the popular PC game, and one which was looking very impressive when the preview was released back in 2006.

Unfortunately though it looked as if the project stalled, but thankfully it seems that the game is back on track and is due for release hopefully very soon:

http://www.indieretronews.com/2019/11/eye-of-beholder-c64-this-upcoming.html

Hopefully case closed and a happy ending too? Well, yes … In November 2022 the game was finally released! 

Enjoy and indeed case closed!

Sadly I couldn’t get this one to run in Vice, so i’ve borrowed the screenshot from Gamebase 64 for now.

I’m not entirely sure what the game is about, but it seems to be a single screen isometric puzzler which may have a level or two.

It is possible that many companies felt it was a too complex a title for them to release and were scared off.

With no credits, this could be a tough one to find out what happened.

A neat looking Dungeons and Dragons style game from 1993 is our next title, just simply called Dungeons.

There is not a huge amount of interaction apart from a bit of moving around, so again as with many previews in GTW64, its early days.

We have a code credit of sorts, so can we find anything more about the game and why it never got much further?

A bit harsh I know, but Dump couldn’t be more apt a name for a game which doesn’t really do anything at all.

There is a simple logo screen to kick things off, followed by a static screen and some flying objects. No real interaction and no real gameplay to report.

Was the game dumped? One for the coder if we can ever find them.