Games That Weren't^®

From what sounds like a racing game, Fast ‘n’ Furious was infact to be a game based on whizzing across the screen on a magic carpet, where you would have obstacles and monsters to avoid like crazy. The game only … Continue reading →

Thanks to contributor Chris Hester, who flagged up an old piece that he wrote possibly for his magazine Adventure Coder. Felix the Cat was the winning entry to a competition ran by Incentive Software (Write Your Own Adventure) to create … Continue reading →

Another GTW entry for Kele Line games, Field of Fire is not to be confused with the SSI strategy game of the same name that was released in 1985. The only references to Field of Fire we have comes in … Continue reading →

One of our last games to focus on from Psytronik which never saw the light of day is Fighting Cops. This seems to be the 5th game in the series, following on from the other unreleased SEUCK “Cops” sequel, “Cops … Continue reading →

A quick entry until we get more info, but Atari Frog brought this game to our attention. Ubi Soft were advertising the game via a poster which was picked up at a show by Atari Frog and recently discovered. It … Continue reading →

Final Eclipse was to be a 3D space shooter published by a company called Boone in 1983. The game was being coded by Rebecca Ann Heineman at the time and it is believed the game was coming on well. The … Continue reading →

Final Frontier was part of the Wargamers series by PSS and was advertised in their catalogues, but the C64 version has never surfaced by the looks of things and no other version seems to have either. The game was rumoured … Continue reading →

A short entry, where Namco/Atari’s Final Lap was to be converted to the C64 and other 8-bit and 16-bit platforms according to PowerPlay magazine from December 1988. The conversion was listed alongside news of conversions of Xybots, Vindicator – which … Continue reading →

We all may remember the sequel to Fire and Forget coming onto our C64 screens in the early 90’s, but the eagled eyed people out there will have realised that like with the likes of James Pond, only the sequel … Continue reading →

Mentioned in "Illegal" pirate fanzine as something seen at PC 1988 show (or so it seems) by SSD of Cosmos. We don’t know much about this game at present, and there doesn’t seem to be any acknowledgement of the game … Continue reading →

A very quick entry which was picked up upon by browsing through Thomas Mogensen’s work directory in HVSC. Within the directory are a large number of tunes for a game called Firefighter, which obviously must have been about firefighting. So … 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. We don’t know much about this game at present, … Continue reading →

Thanks to Jarrod Bentley, we have learnt about yet another Codemasters title that was never released on the C64 – and making the original Commodore Scene story in 1996/97 about there being 22 unreleased Codemasters games looking more and more … Continue reading →

Flame Island was to be a sophisticated adventure with graphics and sound, as described by its advert in the December 1984 edition of Personal Computer Games. The aim was to try and find an Emerald of Power within Flame Island … Continue reading →