Here is a larger overview of recent comments on the Games That Weren’t website, so you can keep up to date with any recent input from others on our various entries.
Frank Gasking on Cruise Attack: That’s fantastic news Dave – completely forgot about this one! Just updating the page now. Oct 15, 12:36- on Cruise Attack: This kind of fell by the wayside, but tape and disc image versions of BBC Micro Cruise Attack are now… Oct 14, 14:25
- on Stargate: In the 1980’s a lot of computer games released for the Home Computers, the companies wanted to maximise profit at… Oct 12, 15:13
- on Last Ninja collection + unreleased titles: Should have some quick pages up soon for both games, though it will be mostly what has been shown on… Oct 8, 00:39
- on Last Ninja collection + unreleased titles: I’m looking forward to seeing the Last Ninja 4 gameplay on your channel/website! I had no idea of its existence… Oct 7, 13:39
- on Stargate (C64) saved after 40 years!: From the article title I was going there’s no way they made a Stargate movie tie-in game that early!!! Oct 7, 12:07
- on Exorcist: I remember that someone posted as a contestant game a hack of Mr. Pluckverse from mastertronic just with a language… Oct 4, 00:18
- on King Of Chicago: So many times I would see game screen mockups for various platforms and get excited as a kid in the… Oct 1, 15:00
- on Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth: Yes: according to the Infocom Archives, the PC version was planned to start its beta-test in February 1989 – and… Oct 1, 04:03
- on Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth: Will be interesting to see if anyone can complete it. It was due to be tested for bugs when it… Sep 30, 22:54
- on King Of Chicago: Ken, that is fantastic! Thank you for getting that confirmation from Doug, i’ll update the page and will close the… Sep 30, 22:50
- on King Of Chicago: I just talked to Doug Sharp, the programmer of all of the versions of King of Chicago. They did some… Sep 30, 20:31
- on Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth: Have anyone completed it? I tried to, but with no luck. The first half seems to be fine, but later… Sep 30, 18:54
- on Garden Wars: Nessun problema, Silvio. Spero che Andreas riesca a farlo funzionare. Spero che tu abbia sue notizie presto – gli ho… Sep 28, 17:50
- on Garden Wars: Ciao, beh, io non ho modo di provarlo. È stato conservato correttamente ma non ho la certezza matematica che sia… Sep 27, 11:46
- on Mission Extreme: Yup, mentioned at the top that its a conversion of the Deadheat PC game. Not seen it myself – was… Sep 27, 09:06
- on Mission Extreme: I think it is indeed! I’ll quickly update the page, as we added the game in a rush at the… Sep 27, 09:05
- on Mission Extreme: It’s hopefully a coincidence, but this looks uncannily similar to a mid-2000s freeware PC game (of the same name) made… Sep 27, 03:08
- on Garden Wars: Grazie Silvio, ho appena trasmesso un messaggio ad Andreas. Sarebbe fantastico vedere il gioco preservato correttamente, quindi grazie per averci… Sep 26, 23:04
- on Garden Wars: Ciao, grazie per la risposta. Attendo di essere contattato da Andrea Pachetti, in ogni caso mi farebbe piacere farvi avere… Sep 26, 22:50
- on Garden Wars: Grazie Silvio, sembra fantastico. Vedrò se posso metterti in contatto con Andrea Pachetti, che sarà più vicino a te in… Sep 26, 22:10
- on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Ah interesting Aaron – similar to when Ocean advertised Airwolf. Was there any particular magazines that had their adverts in?… Sep 26, 22:09
- on Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth: Ah that’s great, thank you Gunther! I’ve updated the post with the details and added a credit to you. Sep 26, 22:08
- on Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth: Thank you for offering this. For what it’s worth, I got sound working using Dosbox-X and doing the following: -… Sep 26, 13:04
- on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: I also believe that originally Ocean Software thought they had the licence in the bag to create and produce the… Sep 25, 20:17
- on Garden Wars: Ciao, ho letto gli articoli relativi al gioco in oggetto e io ne ho una copia. Vorrei venderla. Se siete… Sep 25, 11:18
- on Penitentiary: Hi Frank What about that ‘Raid On Romaro’ game also in the advert? Doesn’t look like GB64 has it at… Sep 24, 12:24
- on Unnamed Game: Ah, brilliant – just added his full name to the credits. Many thanks! Sep 24, 11:22
- on Valley Of The Source: Thank you Fabrizio – updated the text, added the article scan and also extracted out the article as text too. Sep 24, 11:15
- on Bee 52: It’s a shame it was so late in the day, but great now that it has finally had a proper… Sep 24, 11:06
- on Eagle Storm: Thanks Fabrizio – just moved the English translation into the articles and added a scan, with credit! Thanks very much! Sep 24, 10:48
- on Paranoid Pete: Indeed, but I realized it only after hitting the “Send” button, doh! Sep 24, 10:21
- on Paranoid Pete: I think the wiki is out of date Fabrizio. I did a bit of digging with Chris Abbott for his… Sep 24, 10:17
- on Erik The Destroyer: Thanks Fabrizio – just updated the page and added some scans. One of the first magazines I wrote for too… Sep 24, 10:07
- on Valley Of The Source: July 1989 issue of “Adventure Coder” features Valley of the Source at page 20 trying to find out what was… Sep 23, 09:35
- on Deadly Summer: “[…] Synapse Software’s William Mataga and Steve Hales spent much of 1984-1985 designing a new “predictive” text adventure parser to… Sep 22, 21:12
- on House of Changes: Computer Entertainer says the game was a murder mystery (page 13) and slated for release on the fourth quarter of… Sep 22, 21:09
- on European SuperLeague: This is the kind of things driving me crazy when doing some retro researches, the issue #38 of “Super Commodore… Sep 22, 17:17
- on Euchre for Four: Euchre for Four was still selling in 1987 according to issue 14 of Info, page 41, where it was bundled… Sep 22, 15:05
- on Erik The Destroyer: Upon further investigation from the previous comment, a later issue of Commodore Scene (March 1999) provides us with a name… Sep 22, 13:21
- on Erik The Destroyer: In Commodore Scene issue #23 from December 1998, page 8, there is written: “[…] Also mentioned are the products that… Sep 22, 13:16
- on Eagle Storm: According to ASM issue 67 of 1989, Rob Cobain was responsible for the launch of the Players Premier line up,… Sep 22, 12:33
- on Daxis: The C64 version is dated to 1986 by this article from the March 1987 edition of “A & B Computing”:… Sep 22, 09:29
- on Starace: Such a real shame that this game did not make it into the commercial market. It was kind of Zzap!… Sep 21, 13:35
- on Bee 52: There was a demo on Issue 53 – Feb 95 of Commodore Format, they provided a play guide and reprinted… Sep 20, 17:14
- on Paranoid Pete: This wiki lists Rob Hubbard as the author of the soundtrack for Paranoid Pete on C64: https://vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Rob_Hubbard Sep 20, 15:31
- on Unnamed Game: RRR/Oxyron is Timo Buschmann, already featured on GTW64 for two other entries: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/results/gy/0/gh/0/gc/0/gco/0/ga/Timo+Buschmann/gs/0/go/0/ Sep 20, 14:23
- on Lasertrain: From C+VG issue 85 page 11, November 1988: “You could have been forgiven for ignoring The Big Apple, a new… Sep 19, 17:41
- on Jetpac: I’ve seen that version. It seems that the developer did a lot of unofficial conversions or clones of popular games.… Sep 19, 16:56
- on Mars Cops: This also reminds me of the 2019 Amiga/Sega Genesis prototype VergeWorld that is now being developed for PC. The game… Sep 19, 14:50
- on Sophisticated games: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/league-soccer-oao c64 and vic20 versions Sep 19, 14:03
- on Mars Cops: Seems that way sadly Graeme. That reminds me – I don’t think the microdrives with the Scooby graphics were recovered… Sep 19, 00:09
- on Mars Cops: Hi Ian, thank you so much for getting in touch to explain what happened. I’ll update the page now quickly,… Sep 18, 23:54
- on Mars Cops: Wow. This looks cool. The mountains remind me of Rescue on Fractalus! Just render enough pixels to give the illusion… Sep 18, 16:42
- on Mars Cops: looks like it would have been a cool game before they suffered from ‘scooby doo’ syndrome and bit off more… Sep 18, 11:55
- on Mars Cops: Hi. I worked at Arcana as the house artist while this was being developed for the Amiga. No work was… Sep 18, 09:46
- on Hydrogenese: »And to be honest, I had some issues with the game play and lost a lot of time to find… Sep 16, 19:57
- on Stargate: Defender on the C64 was a completely different development by Joe Simko about a year earlier: https://gb64.com/game.php?id=2079&d=18&h=0 Tom’s development was… Sep 16, 13:11
- on Unicorn Software titles: Hi Joseph, thank you so much for sharing your memories about working on Animal Kingdom, and i’m sorry to hear… Sep 16, 13:03
- on Unicorn Software titles: I did the artwork for Animal Kingdom C64 (later renamed Wonders of the Animal Kingdom due to threat of legal… Sep 16, 11:29
- on Hydrogenese: Thank you everyone for the heads up! What a lovely surprise to see yesterday! :) Sep 16, 09:06
- on Stargate: Isn’t that Defender for the C64? It looks 1:1 like it. Can someone here explain the connection between Stargate and… Sep 15, 18:18
- on Hydrogenese: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=245753 Apparently a demo of the game has been found and also has a tune in it not included in… Sep 14, 16:25
- on Big Run: Big Run on the C64 was “previewed” in Games-X issue 41 (February 6th-12th) from 1992. The “preview” claimed: “As you… Sep 13, 11:55
- on Questprobe 2 – Spiderman: Thanks very much for the suggestion – just added that to the page with a credit :) Sep 13, 09:44
- on Questprobe 2 – Spiderman: My guess is that the game would have been ported by somebody at Adventure International’s UK branch, likely Andy Burras… Sep 12, 15:03
- on Monster Muncher: One thing I love about this website are the stories of how these lost titles are found and preserved (this… Sep 10, 15:26
- on Diabolik: Great spot! Thank you! I think that essentially confirms that a C64 version was likely never in serious production or… Sep 10, 13:48
- on Alternate Reality – Missing parts: Ah thank you Non sono Mandrake – i’ll update the page. As for Jim’s name – its *very* likely that… Sep 10, 13:39
- on Xamitlu: That’s really sad to hear. Thanks for letting me know Professor Chaos – will update the page now quickly. Sep 10, 13:36
- on Xamitlu: That’s the scary thing, it *should* have been when the credits were established! :D Sep 10, 13:35
- on Diabolik: Note that the Diabolik demo in Basket Play-Off says “Coming soon on your Amiga, PC VGA 256 colors” (and it… Sep 10, 11:29
- on Alternate Reality – Missing parts: according to https://archive.org/details/CRPGBOOK/page/n73 , only a design document for “The Arena” was developed, and no coding at all. By the… Sep 10, 10:06
- on Xamitlu: Sadly, Johann Stoeten is no more: https://8bitlegends.com/2021/12/13/r-i-p-johan-h-stroeten-a-k-a-ultimax-the-east-agents/ Sep 9, 23:37
- on Xamitlu: Oh, I thought this is quite obvious. ^^ So I never mentioned it specifically. But in case you don’t know… Sep 9, 16:51
- on Xamitlu: I never saw that and can’t believe I missed it!! :D I’ll update the page now, thanks Fabrizio! Sep 9, 12:35
- on Exorcist: That’s interesting to hear and hopefully that will surface one day in the future. Perhaps it was just a port… Sep 9, 12:34
- on Exorcist: Actually I remember that Sigma Commodore the Mexican branch of Commodore, released an Exorcist version for C64. It looked closed… Sep 9, 04:22
- on Xamitlu: “Strange name… small sized game…” <– it's the demoscene handle of its author spelled backwards :) Sep 8, 18:10
- on The Last Job: This looks awesome. So many bad games are released, yet this gets canned. Sep 8, 08:55
- on Huxley: The Dystopia: I to was hyped for this game. told all my friends to watch out for pre orders. and to get… Sep 7, 08:05
- on Rampage V1: That’s OK, thanks though Charles! Might be worth uploading to the CSDB archive though? Sep 6, 09:04
- on 7 Minutes To Midnight: Could well be! Same year too, so i’ve added quickly. Thanks Fabrizio! Sep 5, 17:45
