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.
fgasking on Interactive Football League: Ah interesting! I’ll see about getting a page up sometime! Sep 20, 09:37- on Interactive Football League: Similiar idea from Team17 ;) Profits Warning Profits Warning is a new game from The Games Room, the on-line division… Sep 20, 09:20
- on King Of Chicago: Many thanks Retro Piano Guy! Also relevant to S.D.I too, so I’ll add to both entries with a credit to… Sep 19, 15:42
- on King Of Chicago: The Mindscape catalog from mid 1988 lists King of Chicago on page 27 with the red text below it saying… Sep 19, 03:20
- on Interactive Football League: Great find, thank you Rygar! Updating the page now with the screenshots and text with credit to yourself and Internet… Sep 15, 16:21
- on Interactive Football League: https://web.archive.org/web/19970302034450/http://www.team17.com/TGR/ifl/faq.html https://web.archive.org/web/19970302034441/http://www.team17.com/TGR/ifl/screenshots.html Sep 15, 11:02
- on Bible Baseball: My atheist mind is thinking some very uncharitable things about the elementary spelling error in that screenshot. Good to have… Sep 12, 10:11
- on Thrust: Cheers. Lee was always a curio at Walking Circles, he was stuck in a little office on his own for… Sep 11, 23:09
- on Thrust: Thank you Carleton for flagging up the title to kick things off! Will be happy to connect you back up… Sep 11, 22:52
- on Thrust: Excellent work Frank, really glad you could follow this up. I’ve not seen Lee since the 80s, good to hear… Sep 11, 22:26
- on Thrust: Sorry to hear that Gareth! I’m using DosBox 0.74 on Windows 10 and looking at my dosbox config, I had… Sep 11, 21:02
- on Thrust: Sadly I cannot get this to run on 64bit Windows 11 I had this on my Amstrad, loved it Sep 11, 19:14
- on Typo Attack: Thanks SYaeger for getting in touch and confirming about your time on the game. I’ll be in touch shortly and… Sep 10, 16:53
- on EastEnders: I think the most likely thing was that the company folded closely after the Spectrum release of Eastenders and the… Sep 10, 12:29
- on Typo Attack: Under a contract with AtariSoft, I wrote Typo Attack for the Commodore 64. As usual for AtariSoft game conversions, the… Sep 10, 09:35
- on EastEnders: While reviewing a similarly themed games on CPC (Deadenders, that is) the reviewer wrote: “In the UK there is a… Sep 9, 14:53
- on Ze-III: Thanks Gaz, no worries – happy for you to have the credit finding Percy. Many thanks and i’ll try and… Sep 8, 16:43
- on Riftwar Saga: Just thought I’d mention it’s by a company call Kid’s Source, not Kids Creations as I’d previously thought. Sep 8, 15:02
- on Riftwar Saga: Actually, Midkemia is the fantasy world of Raymond E. Feist. RA Salvatore is known for the creation of Drizzt Do’Urden… Sep 8, 12:16
- on Ze-III: Hi Frank, no need to publish this comment but I think this guy has a youtube channel and in fact… Sep 8, 11:03
- on Riftwar Saga: Thanks Alex! Just updated the post a little with those details, and a credit to yourself. Sep 8, 09:34
- on Riftwar Saga: Midkemia is the fantasy world of RA Salvatore, a very well known fantasy author. Not long after this in 1993… Sep 8, 09:25
- on Pac Man Arcade: Hi Jon-Paul thank you very much for getting in touch. Sounds like we need to create an entry for Pac… Sep 3, 22:10
- on Typo Attack: Thanks again Betrand! As with DKJR – I’ve updated the page with those details confirming. Sep 3, 22:10
- on Donkey Kong Jr: Thanks Betrand! I’ve updated the page with those details confirming the game was actually started! Sep 3, 22:10
- on Pac Man Arcade: I was surprised to hear this music in this game as it has nothing to do with it. The music… Sep 2, 17:41
- on Typo Attack: According to an internal Atari document I have, two “test reports” were initiated on April 30th, 1984 for “REV. 0″… Sep 2, 11:03
- on Donkey Kong Jr: According to an internal Atari document I have, a “test report” was initiated on May 18th, 1984. It is not… Sep 2, 10:59
- on Matterhorn: Espial and Springer were also Orca coin-ops so Changes seems logical to also convert, it’s basically a combo of Pac-Man… Sep 1, 18:19
- on Matterhorn: Hi Mat, This was where the game came from: http://gb64.com/game.php?id=13659&d=18&h=0 .. On the comment: “cartridge version commercial in HC 1984/08″… Sep 1, 10:06
- on Matterhorn: I own Espial, I’m intrigued to know where Hedning saw mention of Matterhorn being released for the C64. Only because… Aug 31, 15:39
- on Brain Death: Thanks very much Professor Chaos! Just updated the main write up with those details and a credit to yourself. Very… Aug 30, 01:08
- on Brain Death: Wow… extra info: 1. The game uses 7 demosongs from “Advanced Music Programmer”, a music editor published by CP Verlag… Aug 29, 18:32
- on Picnic Paranoia: There has also been a TI-99 version of this game which was done by Atarisoft. I’m not sure if it… Aug 27, 20:56
- on Anty Up: The image came from an eBay auction I believe that John had spotted, and I think may have even purchased.… Aug 27, 19:33
- on Money Minefield: Hi Barry, that is fantastic! Thank you for reaching out and confirming that this was your game. I’ll update the… Aug 27, 19:26
- on Anty Up: Is there a specific source for the picture? This program piqued my interest as MMG Micro Software was primarily an… Aug 26, 18:32
- on Money Minefield: Hello, I am the original coder for Money Mindfield, both the Vic20 and CBM64 versions. I wrote these when I… Aug 26, 06:07
- on Diskovery titles: I am the creator of Word Bird, alphabet factory and time zone. I have copies of all three. If you’re… Aug 26, 03:11
- on Mario Is Missing: Yup, that’s the game that was apparently planned for a C64 release – though we highly doubt that anything was… Aug 25, 15:26
- on Mario Is Missing: I’m not sure about _this_ game, but there *is* an educational game by this title, on the NES, SNES and… Aug 25, 12:57
- on Thalimar: Land of Chaos: Hi Marcin, thank you very much for sharing! I’ll add these details into the main piece as well from you. Aug 25, 09:03
- on Thalimar: Land of Chaos: Hi. Shoot’em up joke has slightly enhanced engine. Standard keys: 8 – go forward 7 – turn left 9 -… Aug 24, 23:54
- on Realms of Darkness: That is superb, thank you Grzegorz! Just added the scans to the page, and also extracted out screenshots. Aug 24, 18:10
- on Realms of Darkness: I have found more previews: (FRANK – Removed links and added to gallery) Amiga Dream 01 1993 Nov page 25… Aug 23, 18:42
- on Thalimar: Land of Chaos: second demo looks like a joke from developers. It adds doom-like shotgun sprite and some random space marines who walk… Aug 22, 14:37
- on Monkeybuilder: Ah, so it was you that snatched up this cheaply… Congrats. If I had seen it before you it would… Aug 21, 04:53
- on Monkeybuilder: Thanks very much for confirming Jeff – good to see that this was indeed released. I’m guessing that because it… Aug 19, 18:51
- on Monkeybuilder: This was indeed released for the Commodore 64. A copy recently appeared on eBay. I picked it up. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235124853076?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=xOGTZDMwT1S&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=5u6NDzGgSDy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Aug 18, 22:46
- on Crossbow: Hi Brian Thanks for pointing out that Lemon64 had missed Exidy’s Crossbow out, I passed on the suggestion and it… Aug 15, 20:34
- on Wrecked: A Psychedelic Adventure: An Americanized version of the DOS shareware demo was produced. I randomly found it on a Dallas-area BBS in the… Aug 13, 01:47
- on Bomb: Domark’s Rejection of this Game could be the biggest blunder since Disney turned down “Back To The Future” ! Aug 10, 19:33
- on Crossbow: Fairly similar style to this particular game too, which i’m guessing is just co-incidental. Aug 7, 22:31
- on Crossbow: There’s also an arcade light-gun game called Crossbow that was ported to the C64 by Absolute entertainment. It was released… Aug 7, 17:43
- on Aliens vs Predator: Thank you Molasar! I’ve just added this into the main page with credit to you and links to the podcast.… Aug 2, 09:28
- on Mega lo Mania 2: I’d really like to see a return of MLM. A remake or ‘ spiritual successor’ would be great. Aug 2, 01:04
- on Krell Software: Yeah, it must be for the “American College Tests” that Bertrand had found in the encyclopaedia. Krell must have been… Jul 30, 16:48
- on Joust: A lot of magazines used to advertise games that hadn’t yet been released. Similar happened with Murder! on the C64.… Jul 30, 16:45
- on Joust: It seems that (if this is the right one) it was released on cartridge and priced $44.95 or special priced… Jul 30, 15:34
- on Krell Software: IF it is ACT: https://ibb.co/bbxvfNN I will keep on looking for more info about both of them. PS: Sorry for… Jul 30, 14:47
- on Krell Software: Can I ask if it is SAT or ACT? I have found these: https://ibb.co/nD5B7nR https://ibb.co/tbvfQb6 https://ibb.co/W2w2PyQ Jul 30, 14:33
- on Footloose: Great spot! Looks like Commodore Network got this confused as being a tip for an actual game when they borrowed… Jul 30, 11:19
- on Footloose: but then again it is Leg-end productions and this: https://ibb.co/M9vYGw9 Jul 30, 11:14
- on Footloose: The only thing that I have found now is this one. Could it be the same or a different one?… Jul 30, 10:50
- on The Living Daylights: A bit of info from the words of designer Richard Naylor: -A team from america Arcadia (Canada?,United States?), is doing… Jul 25, 19:02
- on Joust: No, After the release of Jouste Kim moved into business software Development and I moved into IT Services and support. Jul 25, 15:32
- on Danny Duster’s Dirty Deeds: Instantly remember me SpongeBob character, it is myopic that remains a joke a real game could have been very interesting Jul 24, 20:51
- on Danny Duster’s Dirty Deeds: Yeah, it’s likely the mock ups were done in a non-ZX Spectrum package. I’ve been given a bit more background… Jul 24, 16:29
- on Danny Duster’s Dirty Deeds: The graphic clearly does not meet the limits of the speccy graphics specification, i.e. a maximum of 2 colours per… Jul 24, 13:29
- on Fire and Forget 2: I’m pretty sure I played this game on this arcade cab in my little town in the south-west of France… Jul 21, 02:37
- on Crystal Castles V1: This is the version that for sure spread in the USA in 84/85. We had it in NE Ohio… Jul 18, 00:08
- on Mercenary II – Damocles: Lots of backups of that site in Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20230714165044/http://mercenarysite.free.fr/pcpics.htm Jul 14, 18:08
- on Worron: Ah that’s awesome, i’ll post a link in the main page! Glad you got it all sorted! Jul 13, 12:14
- on Worron: OK – I sussed out how to do it… here’s the video… feel free to add to the resources: FRANK… Jul 12, 19:19
- on Messiah 3: Thanks for sharing Gene (i’ll add the scan to the entry), and great to hear that you’re developing a new… Jul 12, 11:17
- on Worron: Good luck Richard – might also be worth asking someone who has done a YouTube video how they got it… Jul 12, 11:13
- on Quo Vadis V2: Thanks Neil and good to hear from you. Ah – so it must have been out there all along for… Jul 12, 11:07
- on Worron: Hi Frank – thanks for that… I spent about an hour trying to get that working this morning, but to… Jul 12, 07:33
- on Messiah 3: Also, posted the game loading to its title screen and credits here: https://twitter.com/arctips/status/1678860290128240641?s=20 Jul 11, 22:44
- on Messiah 3: Found and posted the first press we got for Messiah III (M3) on page 97 in Jul 92 issue of… Jul 11, 22:42
- on Quo Vadis V2: Hi Frank – Hope all is well. Was reading up on Quo Vadis as I am potentially considering a trade… Jul 11, 15:47
- on Worron: Hi Richard, good to hear from you! I think this is what people have been using: https://github.com/corrscope/corrscope Jul 10, 22:01
- on Worron: Hello – me again… I was just wondering if anyone knew someone who could produce one of those great oscilloscope… Jul 10, 21:36
