Nuclear Sub Command
Nuclear Sub Command was being sold as a “Realistic Nuclear Attack Sub Simulation” in a 1992 issue of RUN magazine from the US. The game was sold on disk, but it seems that this is one that either didn’t sell … Continue reading
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Nuclear War
Thanks to contributor Karl Kuras for the heads up. Nuclear War was a fairly well received strategy war game that was released on the Amiga and PC back in 1990 by New World Computing. The game advertisement would however list … Continue reading
Number Jotto
Our next title is a strategy game which can allow for up to 4 players in total. Number Jotto is described as follows: “Deduction, logic and patience are the skills you must master to win the game. The object is … Continue reading
Number Stumper
A game which was advertised by The Learning Company in the manual for Bumble Plot, which was released. Described as “In the electronic version of a classic 14th century game of chance, children learn to add and subtract and also … Continue reading
Nutland
Nutland was a game being written in the early 80’s by Richard Taylor, featuring a squirrel main character. At present we do not know any more information about the game, and will be updating this entry as we get more … Continue reading
O.F.A Adventures
A short collective entry for a series of Commodore 64 adventures that are currently missing and were advertised for a long period of time in Computer Shopper magazine in 1986. Flagged up by Bertrand / Atari Frog. These were three … Continue reading
O.F.A Adventures
1985 O.F.A Platform: Atari 400/800 series A short collective entry for a series of Atari 400/800 adventures that are currently missing and were advertised for a long period of time in Computer Shopper magazine in 1986. Flagged up by Bertrand … Continue reading
Obliterator
Now I bet you didn’t expect to learn that Obliterator was also a planned C64 title?… No?… Well, if you’re an Amstrad user you have probably played it already, where as us C64 users have suffered without a conversion of … Continue reading
Octil
A rather quick entry until we get more info, but Octil was in production by Paul Black, who did a number of C64 titles including Dizzy Down The Rapids. We don’t know anything about the game just yet until hopefully … Continue reading
Octopussy
A very quick entry to cover what seems to be a James Bond title which got caught up in the video game collapse of 1984. According to online sources, Parker Bros were planning to release a game based on the … Continue reading
Off Shore Warrior
Titus released a string of 3D-based games, initially on the 16-bit machines but often converted down to 8-bit. Among the most famous is the Crazy Cars series, all three of which made the jump to the C64. Offshore Warrior was … Continue reading
Old Scores
“An adventure of mystery and suspense, based around the London South Bank” – as described in the advert which was printed by CVG back in the day. Old Scores is yet another adventure game, and a graphic text adventure by … Continue reading
Olli & Lissa II: Halloween
It has always been wondered what happened to the sequel to Olli and Lissa on the C64. Especially if you consider that the first game was released by Firebird, and the 3rd game was released by Codemasters. We learn that … Continue reading
Onion Yupy
Thanks to Jazzcat for the heads up about this game, which was shown recently on the developer’s website. We are not sure what the exact aim of the game was and why it was never finished – but we assume … Continue reading
Oops!
1979 Larry Rosenthal Platform: Arcade As part of the launch and release of The Games That Weren’t book, we are gradually adding assets and content that didn’t make it to print as bonus content to share with you. The book … Continue reading
Ooze
Ooze was a horror based text adventure game which was released on the Amiga, PC and ST by German software house Dragonware back in 1989. It was also advertised for the C64 and was previewed in a German magazine called … Continue reading
Operation Gunship
Yet another Codemasters game to add to the pile – this time a conversion of an Oliver Twins game called Operation Gunship. This game was a top down multi-directional scroller – actually very similiar to Firehawk, which was later being … Continue reading
Operation Thunderbolt V1
Quite possibly one of the strangest goings on behind a Ocean release, coming in the form of the rather bizarre release of Operation Thunderbolt. It all stems back to Zzap! 64, and issue 57 in particular. Zzap reviewed the game … Continue reading
Ophir
An interesting looking title which looks a lot like Dicky’s Diamonds, but was a US based release that was going to be on cartridge back in early 1984. The game was reviewed by Electronic Fun with Computers and Games magazine, … Continue reading
Orbital Run
Orbital Run was a particularly ambitious project which was planned and started back in 1991. Shaun Pearson and some other guys believed that there was no decent C64 car game out there, and so they decided to create their own. … Continue reading
