Games That Weren't^®

Another cool looking Dungeons and Dragons preview goes into the archives, this time one from Kopido games which seemed to run out steam. In this preview, you can move around a little bit – but there is no real gameplay … Continue reading →

Mission X is a cool looking sideways scrolling shooter with cool Uridium style backgrounds. It’s a short map, as you start hitting random parts of the game’s code as it runs out of map to show, but its enough to … Continue reading →

Mini Don is a cool Don Doko Don conversion which was being done as part of a mini-game compo. Although looking and playing brilliantly, the developer didn’t finish it as the graphics were too much to fit within 4K. It … Continue reading →

Created by the developer of Gemini Wing on the C64, this seems to be an advert for Carl Wade’s coding abilities that was leaked out. the game is a sideways scroller with a nice scrolling background and a cool attack … Continue reading →

A strange game where you are having a fight with a neighbour or someone in a carpark. There is no end to the game, and you just wander around aimlessly as the opposition follows you and you try to beat … Continue reading →

Jump is a very neat looking Great Giana Sisters clone with a cool hires sprite. In this preview, there is one level and some annoying spikes to avoid – but it is enough to see the amount of promise in … Continue reading →

I remember first seeing Grubz about 10 years ago and being completely blown away. At last here was a fully fledged Worms clone on the C64 and looking every bit as good as the Amiga original. Sadly 20 years on … Continue reading →

An early preview from the days when the C64 was riding high commercially. Griffin could easily be thought of as a Rastan clone of sorts, and I say that as the main character is ripped from Rastan. However it isn’t. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →