Games That Weren't^®

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 →

An interesting entry, which was a Game Creator game produced by Andrew Boosey of Hayes, Middlesex. This seems to have been for a competition of somekind to prove that good games could be produced using Games Creator. The competition it … Continue reading →

Another title highlighted by Peter Weighill which seems to be long lost on the C64, with Pop Quiz 85. A title created by Independent Software and sold via mail order between late 1984 and early 1985. The game was advertised … Continue reading →

I can’t believe that in 2020, we didn’t have this game in the archives! I’ve known about it for years and assumed it was already there when I kept seeing the game listed in Commodore Format’s early warning scanner. When … Continue reading →

Prehistorik is a platforming game from Titus which is a sort of Caveman Ninja/Chuck Rock clone of sorts that did fairly well on the Amiga platform. In the German magazine "ASM", issue 7/91, there was a double page advert for … Continue reading →

An interesting title brought to my attention from a reader of Atariage.com, Avram Dumitrescu. This is a kind of frogger clone which was developed for Adventure International by a guy called Russ Wetmore. A review of the released Atari game … Continue reading →

A short entry for a game that was advertised in the US press as a mail order only title. The game was described in the advert as being a scripture treasure hunt game, based on biblical principles. 255 rooms to … Continue reading →

Priceless scrolls was being sold as a "A Scripture Treasure Hunt Game Based on Biblical Principles" in a 1992 issue of RUN magazine from the US. The game was sold on disk, but it seems that this is one that … Continue reading →

Designed by another best-selling science fiction author, Walter Jon Williams, Pride and Prejudice was billed as a game of 19th century romance and today is possibly the most sought after game from the Berserker Works stable. Apparently it was released, … Continue reading →

A game which has been known about for some years, but only really for its music by Drax. The music has been used in various places over the years, and has been ever present in HVSC almost since the beginning. … Continue reading →

Confirmed – finally! …. but Domark were indeed working on a C64 conversion of Prince of Persia. Who confirmed it?… Chris West. Who is now hoping to recover a copy to show to the world and said the following on … Continue reading →

It is true that Prince Of Persia was to have an official conversion onto the C64 by none other than E&E, the creators of Lemmings on the C64. Although quite late into the C64’s life, Prince Of Persia was to … Continue reading →

The Legend Of Prince Valiant was to be a platform game based on the cartoon series shown on BBC television in the early 90’s. Ocean bought the licence and had planned to do conversions across a series of platforms. Commodore … Continue reading →

A sequel to a fairly popular tennis game on the C64 was due according to the Amiga review in one of the popular magazines of the time. The review stated that "A C64 version may follow in several month’s time" … Continue reading →

Will Wright, creator of Sim City and The Sims, started his career on the C64 with Raid on Bungeling Bay. (There is one theory that he got the idea for Sim City from creating the maps for RoBB.) According to … Continue reading →

The source of this next entry is interesting as it was mentioned in "Illegal" pirate fanzine as something seen at PC 1988 show (or so it seems) by SSD of Cosmos. At present we know very little about the game … Continue reading →

Very quick entry, but mentioned in a 1997 edition of Commodore Scene was that a company called Project 64 were working on 4 full price titles Unfortunately we no nothing about the games themselves, maybe you know more? Very very … Continue reading →

Project Stealth Fighter was one of Microprose’s excellent simulators, this one being based around the American Stealth Fighter and the C64 version was a good conversion. A ZZAP feature on Microprose Software mentions various versions of their software including Pirates … Continue reading →