Games That Weren't^®

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 →

Pizza Time was to be a Intellivision game conversion to the C64 by the Mattel Electronics France offices. It was scheduled, but apparently never worked on, though it was given an id of #7858 on diskette. The game was a … Continue reading →

An interesting entry which ties in quite nicely with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes by the same company. Plan 9 from Outer Space was to be based on one of those old really cheesy sci-fi movies which came out in … Continue reading →

A short entry for a Mastertronic title that never was called Planet 10 – a late title that was due for release back in 1989. It is thanks to a great article by Simon Plumbe about the game on the … Continue reading →

Our next entry is a title which was meant for release way back in 1983 in the US. Planet Quarx was mentioned in a magazine called Microcomputing with the following details: “Planet Quarx is a three-stage video game for the … Continue reading →

This game was released on the Amiga in 1990 and was reviewed in Zzap May 1990. The game was essentially a managerial version of Kick Off, with the Kick Off engine used for the arcade game. At the end of … Continue reading →

A quick entry for a title which may have been released, but doesn’t seem to have been preserved just yet. The Maths Tutor game in the series by Screenplay was released in 1984, along with a number of other titles. … Continue reading →

This may well be a red herring, but ACE magazine’s review of the Spectrum game by Mastertronic suggests that a C64 conversion may have been considered. We’ll keep things short for now until we get further confirmation, but you can … Continue reading →

Plum Duff was a Christmas game being produced by Jason C Brooke, before he fully broke into pure music development. It was 1985, and after producing an unreleased music tool for Melbourne House in 1984 – he produced the Plum … Continue reading →

Very quick entry, but mentioned in a 1997 edition of Commodore Scene was a new Poker game being worked on by Ewen Gillies. At present there is a Solitare game in GB64, but not a Poker game. Does this one … Continue reading →

Police Quest was the first of a trilogy written by former officer Jim Walls. It centered on you controlling Officer Sonny Bonds who had to solve various murders and drug cases. This was a favourite on the Amiga and it … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title highlighted to us thanks to Pirate Dragon. This was an economic strategy game related to the French Ministry of Finance and was released for the Thomson computers, as well as an SC-3000 version too. … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a title which may well be out in the wild somewhere. Pontoon was as you’d expect, a computerised version of the popular card game that can be played with one or two players. The game … Continue reading →