Games That Weren't^®

Another game which was said to be released from Kele Line in 1987 (Mentioned in Soft magazine). It is another title from Kele Line which we know little about, but we can guess what happened to it anyway. Maybe it … Continue reading →

More from Mastertronic, this time from Binary Design who did a number of titles for the budget label. Speedboat Assassin was being worked on by Paul Gill and Haydn Dalton. Hayden was doing the graphics, with Paul Gill on the … Continue reading →

There is a Sphinx game in gamebase but I’m not sure if it’s the same one. I think this one might be a different one.”‹ “‹”‹ Not to be confused by the game of the same name by ALA Software, … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title which was written by a young Tim Wright whilst he was at school. The game was called Spider Chase, and it was a Scramble clone which was sold only to kids in his playground. … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that was being created by the developers of Jack Attack – Kevin Kieller and John Traynor. This was a title for Commodore – a multi-level treasure hunting type of game, where the aim was … Continue reading →

A short entry for a Commodore MAX title that was proposed, but never finished and released. Spiders From Mars was eventually released on the Commodore VIC 20 and was a sort of Defender style game. Spiders Of Mars for Max … Continue reading →

Spikey and The Search For Rip was a Graphic Adventure Creator based game which was quite good according to Jon Wells. It was submitted to Visualize back in 1994 and placed on their “Coming soon” list, listed as due for … Continue reading →

Thanks to @andynick42 on Twitter for flagging up this title that was advertised in the US and was due to be released by Interstel, who have a number of titles already preserved in Gamebase64. Spin Out was to be an … Continue reading →

Thanks to Jan Harries for highlighting this one, but when Rob Hubbard was asked to list all of the tunes he produced on the C64 – he turned up a few which never actually saw release (The game included). One … Continue reading →

Splidge and the Snowmen was to be a festive game in the mode of one of Richard Bayliss’ previous games Cetimiex. The game was being created 1999 and Richard was going to release Splidge and the Snowmen for the Christmas … Continue reading →

This game is one of the rumoured unreleased 22 Codemasters games which one day we hope to track down and bring to you, like Codemasters should have done a long time ago. Nothing is known about this game too well, … Continue reading →

Briefly mentioned in a magazine from the mid 80’s, there was apparently plans for a 4th game in the Spy Vs Spy series. The third game ends with our two spys being blasted into space. Therefore the theme of the … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a title which was being designed by Stephen Bedser in 1993 for the C64. The game had a working title of Squat Bot, and was based around a small robot that could change its faceplate … Continue reading →

Adept software recently released some of its old PC shareware games for free including one called Squarez deluxe. On their site they mentioned that the game originally started out as a C64 game called Squarez but was abandoned for the … Continue reading →