Games That Weren't^®

A very quick and interesting entry which stems from the very last issue of Your Commodore magazine (Better known as YC issue 84). In the news section, it was stated that Sales Curve had signed up an exclusive deal with … Continue reading →

This is what sounds like your bog standard platformer from a company which didn’t quite make the impact it may have wanted on various formats, with one of its biggest titles being the average "Jaws" licence. Screen 7 promoted this … Continue reading →

Highway Blaster was to be a new title from Italian label Genias for 1992. The game was mentioned in “C+VG Annuario 1992”, an addon to “C+VG” issue 11, December 1991… http://ready64.org/articoli /leggi/idart/30/-rivista -panorama-del-software-ludico -nazionale Stefan Roda, software manager in Genias, … Continue reading →

Never to be released, Hijack was a side-on strategy game to be released by Electric Dreams (A division of Activision). This was an interesting game which did fairly well, and was recieved on the Amstrad and Spectrum platforms. However, the … Continue reading →

Our next entry is thanks to Gareth Pitchford, who spotted in issue 40 of Your Commodore magazine details of a History title that was being created in The Quill. It was mentioned in a small article on educational games. The … Continue reading →

A very quick entry, and which was ever so briefly mentioned by Darren Melbourne when discussing Carl Coffey’s programming past. Carl as you may recall is the programmer of the first version of Soldier of Light, and also of the … Continue reading →

Apparently not to be confused with the release by Golden Games back in the same year, or is it? … We’re not too sure, but it seems a co-incidence that there would be two Hollywood Poker games released around the … Continue reading →

Our next GTW entry comes in the form of Honest Joe, a game by Bubble Bus Software and advertised in a Bubble Bus catalogue from around 1985 time. The game was also due for release on the BBC Micro. The … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for an educational title which was due for release in 1991 on the C64 by Scetlander, a company based in Glasgow. The game was released on the ZX Spectrum and various other platforms. We know that … Continue reading →

The third and final part of the Horace trilogy was sadly never to be on the C64. Indeed the game was planned, but it kind of fell by the wayside, and as far as we know… nothing was ever actually … Continue reading →

Text adventure from Kayde who went into administration at the 26th August 1983. Did Spectrum releases, tried to do C64 and Vic 20 ones, which never seemed to surface. The game in the advert (Two adverts were submitted by Peter … Continue reading →

Very limited information at the moment, but this was to be a title created by Commodore Cracker editor Brian Turner of which he said the following in one issue: "At last I have manage to find the time to start … Continue reading →

A rumoured title from Empire, the little known C64 games crew. It has been found however that this was a game being developed on the C64 by Palace software, around the same time that Barbarian 3 was being produced. Hot … Continue reading →

A short entry for now until we find out some more, but this was a quiz game that was mentioned in a German C64 magazine called Aktueler Software Markt – where the title Hotline Quiz was announced by Chalksoft Ltd. … Continue reading →

Originally we always believed that the first game was never released, but infact it was by CP Verlag. But thanks to Professor Chaos we learn that a sequel actually underway and mentioned in the end sequence. Upon chasing up, it … Continue reading →

A quick entry for a title which was to be an Electronic Novel for Broderbund and Synapse.  Where most of the planned titles were released and coded by Joe Viera (http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php?a=5&f=1&id=1963&d=18&h=0), the rest of them for some reason never quite … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title which has been revealed as in production by Craig Wight in the early 90’s. The game was penned for Hi-Tec software, and it is very likely that it got caught up in the company … Continue reading →