Games That Weren't^®

Part of a series of Power House titles which never quite saw the light of day, or at least are not picked up in Gamebase 64. Did this game ever get a release? Certainly this title although mentioned in Zzap … Continue reading →

A very short entry for now for a game that was one of many that never quite made it from Crystal Software back in the later end of the 90’s. Alpha Zone X was to be a shoot-em-up game, though … Continue reading →

The Alternate Reality series was a huge set of RPG based titles by Datasoft in around 1986, with two titles released. The City and The Dungeon were both released, but the rest of the series never made an appearance. In … Continue reading →

Based on the Cartoon classic where a bunch of Chipmunks have a band and make loads of money while being exploited by their human (!) father. It was good when I was 10 years old anyway! Alternative Software, never a … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that has been highlighted by Peter Weighill as one which is currently missing. Described as an “Incredible Sailing Simulation”, the game supports up to two players as well. Martin/Stadium 64 has highlighted that there … Continue reading →

American Dream was a game by Blue Chip Software (and Jim Zuber?) that was planned to be a simulation of a robotics manufacturing business over 72 operating months. It came with a very high price of $119.95 – so we … Continue reading →

A short entry for a short lived System 3 title. The only real mentions were at the September 1985 computer show, where along with the Twister controversy, American GI was advertised with muscular men at the stand. We assume it … Continue reading →

A very quick entry thanks to Kevin Oxland, who informs us that he was working on a version of Anarchy on the Commodore 64 for Psygnosis. This was being done by the development team, WJS. However, after pretty much completing … Continue reading →

Ancient Warriors was a game by the famous CoCo game developer, Ken Kalish, who produced many a famous game on the machine and shunned the likes of the C64 due to the coding environment he was comfortable with. It is … Continue reading →

Our next entry into the archive come thanks to Gareth Pitchford, who flagged up this currently missing text adventure game by Graham R. Webber. The game was actually published by Satchel, who were a software arm of Angle Park Computing … Continue reading →

Released on the Atari, Vic 20 and TI-99/4A, this wasn’t a clone of the arcade game of the same name, but was closer to Dig Dug in many ways. The game was additionally advertised for the Commodore 64, but has … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for another MMG Micro game that we know very little about. It is thanks to collector John Christian Lønningdal that we learn about the title. The game was released, and it seems offered up for auction … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that has been highlighted by Peter Weighill as one which is currently missing. As you might have guessed from the title, the game is a Craps simulation that was developed after years of actual … Continue reading →

Yet another short entry, and probably a case open and closed before we even start. This was to be a conversion of the Amiga helecopter game that was being created by Jason Perkins and later taken over by Miracle Games … Continue reading →