Games That Weren't^®

Two games essentially, but we’ve decided to create just the one entry for this one. Drax – Evilblood was produced mostly for fun it seems in its first instance, developed by Mark Gallagher with Ed Campbell on graphics. Previously the … Continue reading →

Dreadnought was a multi-scrolling shooter being developed by Icon Design back in late 1988. The game was coded by none other than John Buckley of Solar Jetman fame. The aim of the game was to control a fleet of ships … Continue reading →

I’m not a fan of puzzlers, and this game does little to convince me to play more of them. A typical example of what was saturated onto the C64 scene at one point. A word game which i’m uncertain how … Continue reading →

A neat little platformer this one, and something I fondly remember playing from the days of Zzap 64 and their famous megatapes. Created by Zach Townsend (coder of Batman The Movie and Army Moves) after he had left Ocean, Dreamraider … Continue reading →

A very short and quick entry for a title which was produced by Martin Piper in 1989. Code named Droid Alert, this was a title which essentially was just an early test of scrolling and door routines. It is very … Continue reading →

All I can say is that this game looks really cool and reminds me of a PC strategy game that an old work colleague used to play and had a similar vector feel to it. Unfortunately I have no idea … Continue reading →

A neat and almost complete game, where you control a blue penguin type creature that flies around collecting many many objects and sweets for points, before progressing to the next level. Each colorful level is multi-directional, quite fast and smooth … Continue reading →

A bit harsh I know, but Dump couldn’t be more apt a name for a game which doesn’t really do anything at all. There is a simple logo screen to kick things off, followed by a static screen and some … Continue reading →

Don’t get too excited about this one. Its uncertain if this was meant to be, but Dune 2 may well have been planned for development at some stage on the C64. The static mock ups that we have here could … Continue reading →

A rather grey attempt at Dungeon Master on the C64, quite literally with its greyscale multicolour graphic mode. This is an ambitious project to try and attempt on the commodore, but someone had the guts to have a try, and … Continue reading →

A neat looking Dungeons and Dragons style game from 1993 is our next title, just simply called Dungeons. There is not a huge amount of interaction apart from a bit of moving around, so again as with many previews in … Continue reading →

A very quick and new entry thanks to a recent release by Onslaught with a Demo compilation pack. Dwarfs and Diamonds was one of those games on the pack, and is a pretty neat looking Bubble Bobble/Bombjack styled clone with … Continue reading →

Dynaboys is a pretty impressive early Dynablaster clone from 1993, which ironically looks quite close to the official C64 conversion that never got released. It’s quite uncanny actually, and I wonder if its related to that development at all? Or … Continue reading →

A very short and quick entry for a title that was released by cracker Zenith back in the day of a very early sideways scrolling shooter. It just has a simple parallax scrolling background and has a sprite multiplexer implemented … Continue reading →

A new GTW which has plenty more to be added in the near future.This is a very promising platformer game with some very nice graphics. At the moment nothing is much playable, and you’ll only be able to see the … Continue reading →

Our next entry is for a title we believe was called Earth Mover, due to its filename, but this could also have been a work in progress name. The game was found and recovered from Cory Kin’s personal disk collection. … Continue reading →

Another title in the archives which was due out in the post-commercial era of the C64, with a simple RPG title in the shape of Eelona – The Warrior Princess. This seems to have been abandoned very early on, and … Continue reading →

Thanks to Csaba Virág for passing on our next GTW entry, which is a Hungarian text adventure produced by Cream in 1992. The title translates roughly into ‘A little fling’. Unfortunately you probably won’t be able to play the game … Continue reading →

Elaroo is based around an elephant who bounces around various platforms on a pogo stick, while collecting as many coins as possible and bouncing on the heads of enemies to get bubblegum. I can’t quite make out which game this … Continue reading →