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 X-Wing V1: Thanks JP, I agree it would have certainly been hard work. Thank you so much too for the additional screenshot… Apr 27, 17:01- on X-Wing V1: Give the pixel size and 1:1 scaling of the X-wing in that shot and the way that damage it’s taking… Apr 26, 04:58
- on The Godfather: Hi Nik – unfortunately we’ve found nothing of the game or the music on any format – there are only… Apr 25, 13:02
- on The Godfather: Frank, I just saw the update. Are you finding anything related to the music; The main theme in particular? I… Apr 24, 16:26
- on Scraper Caper: My guess is that he’s fearing the worst for Bob with the burning building! Apr 23, 23:43
- on Scraper Caper: I remember seeing this ad and being quite sad that Bounty Bob’s donkey was crying. Apr 23, 18:42
- on Mars Cops: Apologies Pete, almost missed your comment as it ended up in the spam list! That would be amazing, thank you… Apr 19, 16:28
- on Scraper Caper: Yeah, sadly there was – but it was quickly taken offline. There’s a link further down the post to where… Apr 19, 16:20
- on Scraper Caper: There was a video? I really hope that it gets made public again. Bounty Bob Strikes Back was one of… Apr 18, 17:44
- on Commando Libya – part 2: Also factor in that Germany at the time the game was released had just censored Commando, so it’s possible that… Apr 18, 13:38
- on Commando Libya – part 2: Thanks Alfonso – good point, i’ll update the page now quickly. Apr 18, 13:02
- on Commando 88: That’s a good point Alfonso! I’m wondering if Commando 86 snuck out though via one of the Hit Paks? It’s… Apr 18, 12:59
- on Mind Bender: It doesn’t help in the search that there was a Gremlin Interactive DOS game of the same name. I’ll keep… Apr 17, 21:15
- on Commando 88: I’m a bit surprised not to find an entry on Commando 86! It was advertised widely back in the day,… Apr 17, 08:31
- on Commando Libya – part 2: “It [Commando Lybia] caused a bit of an outcry on the C64 scene in 1986 as a result.” That’s a… Apr 17, 08:25
- on Mars Cops: Hi! I found this page looking for info about this game. There’s a rolling demo of the Amiga version on… Apr 16, 17:06
- on Missile Command: Thanks Duc! That is great work, and i’ve updated the page with suggested credits. Hopefully it will lead to something! Apr 14, 23:18
- on Missile Command: I forgot to mention GDRI said K-Byte was the one behind the conversion and Bob MacDowell appears to be the… Apr 14, 19:10
- on Vanguard: The GDRI Atarisoft page said Designer Software was behind the conversion of Vanguard. I suspect Bill Bogenreif was the game’s… Apr 14, 19:09
- on Champions: Bought a bunch of Champions stuff and a CGW magazine was in there with it on the cover and I… Apr 12, 04:29
- on Benidorm: Thanks Arcachnar! Added to the page, and also updated the text a little. Credit added too – thanks very much!… Apr 10, 12:29
- on Benidorm: Another article about the game. It could only been available through mail order: https://i.ibb.co/Ngv5qr8j/Issue851031-0003.jpg Apr 10, 07:54
- on Magnum Force: Here is an article/review about the CD-Games Pack: https://i.ibb.co/ccDszHHt/ZZAP-64-58-1990-02-0034.jpg Apr 10, 07:35
- on Paddle Mania: That’s awesome, can’t believe I missed this! Added just now, thank you Fabrizio! Apr 8, 13:22
- on Paddle Mania: This music collection lets you listen its soundtracks on a real C64 or an emulator: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=165939 Apr 8, 07:29
- on Magnum Force: That’s fantastic – thank you Colin! I will update the page quickly. Stupidly, I did see the Magnum Force mention… Apr 7, 14:42
- on Magician’s Apprentice: The work that the Konix Archive (Mark Campbell) and Lee Hammerton for the emulator side is phenomenal. My understanding is… Apr 7, 14:38
- on Magician’s Apprentice: So let me get this straight. This is an unreleased game for an unreleased sequel console which was the successor… Apr 7, 13:16
- on Magnum Force: Good evening, I’ve recently saw this story and wanted to clear something up with regards to the CD Pack manual.… Apr 6, 23:08
- on Barbarian 3: Steve Brown was working on a second sequel to the series as the sale went through. “It was a great… Apr 6, 08:44
- on League of Light: Fantastic work Fabrizio and thank you. Looks like this probably at the very least became an earlier prototype initially on… Apr 5, 23:11
- on Lifespan: I think that must be the same game! So perhaps a different company picked up the rights to do a… Apr 5, 22:46
- on Lauren of the 25th Century: Thank you Fabrizio! Just updated the page and added some links. That gives a great indication of how the C64… Apr 5, 22:44
- on Midwinter: Ah, it does! He’s never mentioned it, but i’ll ping him a message. Might be an error in the magazine. Apr 5, 22:35
- on Lauren of the 25th Century: The Apple II version was released and there are screenshots at MobyGames: https://www.mobygames.com/game/188751/lauren-of-the-25th-century/ , it is even playable online thanks… Apr 5, 21:44
- on Huge recovery for what was the Konix Multisystem!: Sh1t the bed!!! I remember seeing this at the PCW show in 89. We got let in before the public,… Apr 5, 11:51
- on League of Light: League of Light was released by Activision on Intellivision in 1983: “Released in 2001 Intellivision Rocks. Programmers, Russ Lieblich and… Apr 4, 21:24
- on Lifespan: Is there a relation to this? The description sounds very similar to me: https://www.mobygames.com/game/173431/lifespan/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespan_(video_game) Apr 4, 21:17
- on Midwinter: I think according to ACE appears that Mike Lyons, later of the unreleased version of Total Recall is the coder. Apr 3, 17:38
- on Battlestorm: Addendum: if you take a look at the UK ad (bottom page, central ad) it was expected to be released… Apr 2, 22:18
- on Battlestorm: The C64 version is listed also on its German Advert (Amiga Joker 1/1991, Page 13), see bottom right picture here:… Apr 2, 22:15
- on Mag Max V1: We finally dug it up. Had it been released instead of the one Paul Hughes had got, then we would… Apr 2, 17:12
- on Moonshadow: I knew this title screen looked familiar… Ripped off Rodney Matthews’ cover art for the first Praying Mantis album, “Time… Apr 1, 16:00
- on Fun Flyer: That’s great to see. I suspect the PC version did see release, but just in limited numbers. Hopefully that can… Mar 30, 14:20
- on Fun Flyer: Weird. Has anyone seen this? https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/fisher-price-dos-games-ibm-pc-xt-1929660150 Really wish it was still on Ebay to verify this. If you know what… Mar 30, 02:37
- on Fun Flyer: Thanks very much for the contributions Arcachnar! This is great, and I’ve updated the page with the new information and… Mar 29, 15:14
- on Rise of the Robots: Thanks Graeme – that’s awesome! It is really strange, then perhaps they considered it due to the codebase being mostly… Mar 29, 15:06
- on Fun Flyer: Another interesting thing is that it DID was mentioned in the bargain bin for the Commodore 64 for $9.88: https://ibb.co/RT3pdzvr… Mar 28, 13:09
- on Fun Flyer: Interestingly enough the IBM DOS release has more information about what the game is about; https://ibb.co/3y7hPVDt It has to be… Mar 28, 12:39
- on Rise of the Robots: I recently interviewed Clive’s artist partner on this (and several other) project, Marcus Russell AKA Trippa. While he didn’t know… Mar 28, 12:27
- on Populous: The master system version of this game is the game I put more hours on my life, ever. I’ve been… Mar 25, 11:35
- on Tetris V1: Interesting! It was displayed in Power Play (3/1988, p32) too, and it’s an Amiga game. In ASM (4/1988, p60), there’s… Mar 25, 10:55
- on Mr. Magoo: Interesting, At first I thought it might be like Sleepwalker/Eek! The Cat, vur if you’re just a cursor on screen,… Mar 25, 08:26
- on Populous: It is rather amazing a 6502 cpu can do this pseudo 3d generative landscape rendering. I dont know much about… Mar 24, 18:46
- on Populous: Amazing! I don’t know if it was previewed, but I believe it was found in Nintendo’s internal lot check lists Mar 24, 16:03
- on Populous: GTW is on fire lately. Congrats on yet another brilliant recovery. Amazing it’s complete and yet it was left to… Mar 24, 09:58
- on Cyberspace: “It’s a shame there isn’t more there, but great that we can still move around.” Sounds familiar. ;-) Mar 23, 20:41
- on Cyberspace: Thank you so much Zebate – that is amazing! Just added to the page now. It’s a shame there isn’t… Mar 23, 19:17
- on Cyberspace: I patched the exe but looks like that little showcased environment is really all there is and that exe was… Mar 22, 21:15
- on Where Time Stood Still: Excellent, after all it was true that the EGA version existed. Thank you very much for helping me discover another… Mar 21, 12:47
- on Where Time Stood Still: Yurum’s just replied :) You can find a copy at https://www.old-games.ru/game/download/2699.html or in the Total DOS collection. Thanks for the… Mar 21, 12:09
- on Where Time Stood Still: I myself have already left a comment on the video asking about this version, but I never got an answer.… Mar 21, 11:11
- on Cyberspace: Wow! I love it when finds like this happen. Works perfect in DOSBox albeit no sound. So much is buried… Mar 20, 22:42
- on Where Time Stood Still: That’s the first i’ve heard of it as well! I’ll post a comment on the video to see where they… Mar 20, 21:04
- on Cyberspace: That is amazing work Kusfo! I’ll update the page asap! So its another one which has been out there all… Mar 20, 21:04
- on Where Time Stood Still: There is a video on youtube of a EGA version of the game WTSS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHn62AhGUvU I cant find this version… Mar 20, 18:24
- on Cyberspace: Confirmed! It was in PCMANIA issue number 18. I just downloaded the image, and I’ve tested both an automatic demo… Mar 20, 14:05
- on Sensible Soccer: Hi there, yes it was PDS based. It’s unlikely we’re going to be allowed to release the source code, but… Mar 20, 11:20
- on Cyberspace: That would be amazing if it was! If you find anything, please let us know and we’ll update the page… Mar 20, 11:18
- on Cyberspace: I hope it’s not a Mandela Effect, but I believe a playable demo of this game was included in a… Mar 20, 09:45
- on Sensible Soccer: In this article and in the video you mention that it was compiled from the source code. Was it PDS… Mar 20, 04:53
- on Axe ‘n Crossbow: Just had confirmation that its a different Anonymous person :) Apologies! However, I had definitely forgot to add the archive… Mar 19, 16:55
- on Sensible Soccer: This is pretty amazing! It’s not everyday we see a new NES game, especially one that went unreleased and even… Mar 19, 13:01
- on Games That Weren’t talk now live!: Thanks Peter for the kind words – glad you enjoyed it :) Mar 18, 09:59
- on Games That Weren’t talk now live!: Just watched this and read the comments here. If you were nervous Frank, it didn’t come across at all. And… Mar 18, 02:50
- on Mr. Magoo: lo ricordo che non ci vedeva assolutamente per i videogiochi … s’intersecava d’astrattismo.come un gioco a mosca cieca rappresentativa in… Mar 15, 19:00
- on Mr. Magoo: Love the artwork, especially the sprites! Looks like one of those things where, had it been released, even if it… Mar 14, 23:35
- on Zolo: So I forgot to mention Kevin Grieve (w/ Grant Harrison) worked on the C64 port of Galivan for Imagine (Ocean’s… Mar 14, 17:03
- on Big Brother: Cool man. Yeah, I’ve got a NVidia 4000 series GPU based laptop and the game is almost unplayable without a… Mar 14, 15:09
- on Big Brother: Thanks for the info about installation! I got it running on Windows 10 without the need for limiting the frame… Mar 14, 11:44
- on Vanguard: Very cool! At least the Vic 20 got something of a conversion, even if unofficially! :) Mar 14, 10:42
- on Vanguard: http://www.vic20listings.freeolamail.com/vic20/mags/hcw/83-07-26/vangard.d64 I remember typing this into my vic from popular computing weekly, so I searched for a listing and fount… Mar 13, 23:38
