Pizza Time
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
Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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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
Plasmatak was originally being developed in collaboration with Thalamus by Steve Collins (Herobotix fame), who actually almost finished this game, but sadly interest was lost, and Steve went to work at Pizzaland for the summer. The game had a Paradroid … Continue reading
Platoon was a superb movie tie-in game from Ocean Software back in 1988 with some excellent varied levels that captured the essence of the movie. Thanks to contributor Martin Inter, here are some slightly earlier Commodore 64 screens which show … Continue reading
1982 Epyx Platform: Commodore Vic 20 A short entry until we can confirm that there was indeed a Commodore VIC-20 conversion. PlatterMania was a plate spinning action game that was released by Epyx on the Atari 400/800 in 1982, some … Continue reading
Yet another educational set of titles which are at large it seems, and highlighted thanks to Sean O’Neill. Ironically, it is within a Zzap educational article back in 1992 alongside the Fun School series where our next set of titles … 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
I had the pleasure of being a guest on the “Nice and Nasty Gaming Podcast” with Mamemeister recently! We chatted about Games That Weren’t, how I first got into gaming, and picked out three games I’d take to a desert … 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
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
This isn’t actually the title of the game…. but the title at the time wasn’t decided when Beyond Belief were given an introduction to the pages of Commodore Force. They had promise of many titles (Many with titles which sounded … 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
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