Games That Weren't^®

Phantom – The Mission Remive was a remix of a SEUCK game called Phantom – The Mission that was created by Alex Aris and David Axtell back in 1988 on Commodore Disk User magazine. It was a pretty neat shooter … Continue reading →

Yet another Ocean title which seems to have got lost along the way from its translation from other formats. In particular from the Spectrum/Amstrad in this case. Phantom Club was a Knightlore style game from the creator of MOVIE, another … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a title which may have been something advertised in early magazines. The game was to be released by Playsoft, but we know very little else apart from this. The game is also part of a … Continue reading →

Yet another unreleased Codemasters game! … But this time from early on in their life in 1987. Phantomas was to be a conversion of the released spectrum game where you control a robber in a Manic Miner/Dizzy kind of game. … Continue reading →

Pharaoh’s Pyramid was a fairly popular game for the Atari in the early 80’s by Master Control Software, and was a rather enjoyable Q-Bert clone. In the advert, it was stated that a Commodore 64 conversion was coming soon … … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title which we know was released, but is yet to be fully preserved. This was an expansion disk for PHM Pegasus by Electronic Arts, and was released back in 1987. The expansion disk seems to … 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 →

Part of an educational series, Picture Parts is one of around 6 which is sadly missing and one which may have been released, but is very possible that it didn’t quite make it out. We’re not 100% sure what happened … Continue reading →

Pimania was an adventure game released very early on back in 1982/83. If you managed to crack the game and interpret the clues correctly – you could work out the time, date and place where someone will be waiting to … Continue reading →

Early days, but it seems that Empire Software were considering a sequel very early on to Pipe Mania, so much so that a design document was produced with all the details by The Assembly Line back in 1991. A massive … Continue reading →

A cheat entry for now, as its possible that all 4 of the games were actually released – so this is more of a call to try and find these games and get them digitally preserved and available. Piper Software … Continue reading →

A short entry for a Commodore MAX title that was proposed, but never finished and released. Pirate Attack (a working title) would have you trying to destroy an attacking pirate ship before it destroys you. The game would start with … Continue reading →

Another GTW entry for Kele Line games, for more on their background check out the entry for Force of the Vulcan. Pirates of the Ocean was one of four games slated for release by Kele Line in 1987, alongside Force … Continue reading →

Pirates was an excellent game written by the brilliant Sid Meier, who with ‘Major’ Bill Stead founded Microprose. This was a popular hit on all machines and has recently resurfaced as a major new PC game, again written by Sid … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that may or may not have had a C64 release under way. Pixie and Dixie was based on the Hanna Barbera cartoon and was to be a late 8-bit release it seems. The game … Continue reading →