A very colourful single screen platform game. “Rainbow Bomb” certainly lives up to its name. Apart from the annoying colour scroll as you move, the game seems to be fairly playable at its current stage, though some jumps are hard … Continue reading →
Parallel Logic were to be one of the saviours of the C64 in the UK market, as many companies began to leave the C64 behind in favour of the consoles. Amoung their selection of releases was to be a text … Continue reading →
Some of you may have seen this game released on another label in Europe in the early 90’s, but what you don’t know is that this game infact was due for release on the Firebird label around 1988/89. Sadly, the … Continue reading →
Another amazing looking C64 title that bit the dust, again suffering from the gradual commercial decline of the C64 back in the early 1990s. After completing the C64 conversion of Rolling Ronny in 1991, the team were assigned to work … Continue reading →
What we have here with our next GTW entry is Miles Barry’s first C64 game which was started while Jason Kelk and Nigel Smith were crashing over his place for a week. The majority of superb graphics were done by … Continue reading →
This rubber-burnin’ coin-op conversion, sequel to Atari’s classic Hard Drivin’, was expected around Christmas 1991. After the miserable attempt to get its predecessor onto the Commodore 64 (the filled polygons moved slower than London traffic), the programmers dispensed with the … Continue reading →
This second version of a released game, Quo Vadis V2, was brought to my attention by DanSolo over at the Lemon64 forums. Quo Vadis V2 was mentioned in a news item where a disk version was being planned that could … Continue reading →
Quo Vadis was to be a German adventure with animated graphics and some other nice little features. The vocabulary wasn’t that big (200 words), but the game was judged as a good solid adventure game with excellent animated graphics. The … Continue reading →
The source of this next entry is interesting as it was mentioned in “Illegal” pirate fanzine as something seen at PC 1988 show (or so it seems) by SSD of Cosmos. Quondam was an arcade shoot-em-up written by Denton Designs, … Continue reading →
Unlike we previously thought, this game was actuallyreleased on the german disk magazine "Input 64" in the year 1986 as "Die versunkene Stadt" (sunken city). Gamebase64 has the game here: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=8381&d=18&h=0 This entry as a result will be removed in … Continue reading →
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