Games That Weren't^®

This entry originally began as a possible V1 hunt, but it has been confirmed that Finlay indeed programmed the version we all know (and love?). However, a recent conversation with Wayne Billingham showed that a Cartridge version was being produced. … Continue reading →

A short entry for a collection of games that are currently missing. Advertised in Compute! July 1983, the four games were to be: Head On – A daring and dangerous death race Alien Invasion – 4 players. Creatures descend. Atomic … Continue reading →

A very quick entry, but in an article by Commodore Format and written by Gary Penn, it was mentioned that Gary Liddon had written a game called Advanced Soccer Simulator for Codemasters back in the day which was never released. … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that was being created by the developers of Jack Attack – Kevin Kieller and John Traynor. This was a title for Commodore – an educational title to teach basic math concepts. Sadly Commodore were … Continue reading →

Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. After the Fire was a graphic text adventure due for release from Channel 8 in September 1984. Although due for … Continue reading →

Agrophobia was a text adventure game written by Mark Healey (who did graphics for Sleepwalker and the Fun School series). The game was created whilst at school, and Mark sold about 3-4 copies to friends. It was likely his very … Continue reading →

A short entry for a Commodore MAX title that was proposed, but never finished and released. Air Battle would set you in air and space, pitting you against many different types of alien invaders. At each level, the player would … Continue reading →

A very short entry unfortunately for a title which we should have added a long time ago. Aircat was a game to be developed by Canvas Software for an unknown publisher at the time. We believe it was some kind … Continue reading →

A rather interesting story with another game which had an earlier version … but one which was infinately better it seems than what was eventually released. Airwolf 2 was released on the Hitpak collection as the final game was awful. … Continue reading →

Before Elite got the licence for Airwolf, Ocean Software actually started producing the home computer conversions. Although it was advertised for the Spectrum in the scan, it was infact also planned for the C64 until Elite Software won a legal … Continue reading →

ALA Software were an obscure company from the US who defined their games as “Games with Guts”. They were part of a mother company called ALA Enterprises (which was a record label). All software was written by General Masters Corporation. … Continue reading →

A very quick entry which was brought to our attention via a tune in Gilles Soulet’s HVSC folder. Albedo was a game released by a company called Myriad, and saw release on 16-bit platforms including the Amiga. The existence of … Continue reading →

A short entry for yet another Kele Line title, and one which at this stage we know little about. We have learnt about the title thanks to contributor Henrik Matzen, who had a bunch of Kele Line related materials and … Continue reading →

This rather bizzarely named game was first reviewed in Home Computer Weekly on the 29th November 1983 and was priced at £7.50. The game was a text adventure game, and seemed to be sold from home. The address given in … Continue reading →