Games That Weren't^®

Mentioned on the title of Scorpion 2 for CDU, Bubble Blaster was only ever briefly known about just through this game. Leslie Wigmore was not much of a well known character on the C64, but produced two decent games for … Continue reading →

Bubbles was a 2D, 4 directional scrolling shoot-em-up. Not really a metalic and violent shooter, but one made as a children’s shoot ’em up. This game was bought up by Jared Derret who has kindly shed light on a number … Continue reading →

Our next game is slightly obscure, and was briefly advertised by US magazines in 1983. Thanks to Peter Weighill for the heads up. The game was called Bubbles, and has you controlling Clarence the Clam, who must avoid and destroy … Continue reading →

A quick entry for a title by Uruguayan development group Iron Byte, called Buggy Ranger. The game was released by Dinamic on the likes of the Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and MSX and was a sort of ATV clone with very … Continue reading →

A short entry for an early title that was created by Ocean’s Tony Pomfret and had wowed David Collier enough to get Tony a job at Ocean Software. The game was influenced by Choplifter, and featured a lot of raster … Continue reading →

A oriental game this time by Ariolasoft, we think mainly for their budget label Reaktor. This game name has been ringing around for a while now, though not to be confused with the Graftgold game called Bushido. Things were a … Continue reading →

A short entry for now on a title which was converted in a matter of a week by Richard Ikin for Future Concepts (who had released Ramparts). The game was handed over to Sean Lally afterwards and never seen again. … Continue reading →

This is a very short stub entry for a game called Butterflies, which was a concept for a Commodore 64 game that was highlighted on Viktor T. Toth’s website. We know very little at this stage apart from that the … Continue reading →

A bit of a lazy covering entry for a range of potential cartridges that were meant to have come out for the C64GS. Back when the C64GS was launched, there was a strong list of support from the likes of … Continue reading →

Thanks to Shaun for flagging up a title which was the competition winner for a Zzap compo to design your own game and win £500. This was ran in 1987, and Shaun was the lucky winner – where the game … Continue reading →

California Games 2 was the long awaited sequel which was supposidly available for mail order release in 1991 or 1992 by Tenex Computer Express. It is not certain if any copies leaked out to anyone in the public or not. … Continue reading →

A game which probably many wouldn’t have chosen to licence, but Big Apple software did back in 1989 as they tried to make their mark on the computer game market. Jason Kendal (Who also did Proton for Big Apple) and … Continue reading →

A short entry for a SSG title for the C64 that was advertised in its 1988-1989 catalog as coming soon. With thanks to Joseph Tsai for highlighting. The game was also due for release for the Apple II and IBM/Tandy … Continue reading →

Briefly mentioned in an issue of Commodore Cracker, there was a brief news item saying that the conversion of Cannon Fodder for the C64 was looking seriously delayed. It never surfaced unsurprisingly, and was most likely vapourware. There honestly isn’t … Continue reading →

Capitaly was a version of Monopoly for the C64 which was written by Andras Baneth. Andras had also worked on an unofficial Viking Child conversion for the C64, but mentioned this Monopoly game which he had also worked on. It … Continue reading →