Joust

This is an entry for a long lost Atarisoft conversion of Joust for the Commodore 64, due for release back in 1984. The game had made it across to a variety of platforms, but the C64 game was thought to … Continue reading
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This is an entry for a long lost Atarisoft conversion of Joust for the Commodore 64, due for release back in 1984. The game had made it across to a variety of platforms, but the C64 game was thought to … Continue reading

A strange little game this, with some nice looking early graphics and main character. This preview is at a very early stage, as you cannot really do anything apart from jump on the platforms. It’s not known what kind of … Continue reading

Great news, but for years this game was existing as a preview, but the guys at Protovision in 2011 have now released the game! Check it all out here: http://www.protovision-online.com/games/jimslim.htm Case closed!
J.Morrison Micros was a very early development company that produced games for the Commodore 64 such as Bonka, Cybermen and Vultures … unfortunately they disappeared rather quickly too. In issue 86 of Home Computer Weekly, another game called Jellybones was … Continue reading
This was recently brought to my attention by Jason Kelk, who spotted an advert for the game “It’s Rory” in an early Llamasoft advert in 1985. We know very little about the game itself and just have this little portion … Continue reading
One more Channel 8 Software ‘Game That Wasn’t’ for the collection, I, Spy for Children was part of a slew of planned released by Channel 8 Software, several of which never saw the light of day. Judging from the name … Continue reading

Found hiding on a bunch of old Compunet disks by Viktor Vargor came this interesting little preview of a Submarine game by none other than Mike (Kernal) Berry, who later went on to create Boing!, Reckless Rufus and the other … Continue reading
Another fleeting reference to an unreleased C64 game here, this time found in Zzap Issue 13 (Page 92, no less!). The text is quoted below: It has a broadly Ultimate type look and feel, however the graphics are stronger and … Continue reading

“Starting life as a humble molecule in the Pre-Cambrian age, you progress through this exciting ten-level game to the Dawn of Early Man – if you are clever enough! Create the ideal fish, play a new kind of ‘Snap’, judge … Continue reading

Another puzzle game, but a rather intriguing one… “Infection” was a game to be released by Virgin Mastertronic back in 1989, but the game never got a release although it was completed on Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, PC, C64 and … Continue reading
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