Games That Weren't^®

A terrible preview, with awful graphics and no playability. There is a simple grey blob thing at the bottom of the screen, with some naff score bits on the left, and nothing to do. It’s not known what this game … Continue reading →

A wonderful sounding project was announced to the C64 world when Legend Of Kyril was being planned for release by Crystal Software. A potentially stunning RPG game in the style of Johnny Reb and other RPG’s was on its way … Continue reading →

Legendary Deed is another powerful RPG game in similiar vein to those created by US Gold around the same time. The preview is unplayable, but shows a series of screens which build up the game. Graphically, all looks nice and … Continue reading →

Information had been a little bit vague on this game. It was uncertain for a while if this were meant as a joke, or in fact was a real Lemmings conversion attempt. All there was, was a simple attempt at … Continue reading →

Liberation was a game similar to Turrican, and was in development for quite some time by Profile Entertainment. Danish based Profile Entertainment are also known under their demo name, Camelot. The game had a brief mention in the pages of … Continue reading →

A nice little single screen western OP Wolf style shooter, with the added ability to choose your route of travel. This game was also slightly similiar in some aspects to Tusker. There was to be some puzzle solving elements in … Continue reading →

Liberator was to be part of a two game bundle along with a game called Sarumax (which eventually turned into Elven Warrior and was released by Players Software). The game itself was a sort of Hunters Moon meets Solar Jetman, … Continue reading →

This was planned as a late release for the Trojan Lightgun, featuring Archery as the theme. Featuring some fair graphics and additions to make it playable for joystick users in this preview, it isn’t too bad. It’s certainly not the … Continue reading →

This game features the adventures of Leroy, a Lego character in a lego based world. The graphics are very cartoony, and very faithful to lego (No.. not blocky before you say!). Levels are portrayed over a horizontal push scroll landscape. … Continue reading →

This is a bit of an obscure title which was never really mentioned in any magazines, that is apart from Games X magazine in 1991. This game was a Wonderboy 3/Alex Kidd clone done by the team behind Escape From … Continue reading →

Weird little platform game featuring a cute looking duck (Or what is supposed to be a duck anyway). You collect various little gems and jump over holes in the ground, and that’s currently about it in this preview. It’s currently … Continue reading →

Little Hero is a simple platformer, in the style of Giana Sisters and in a very early phase it seems. At present the demo which has been floating around seems to just be a quick test of the graphics, with … Continue reading →

Unknown to many people apart from those at Ocean Software, Liverpool FC was to be also developed by Ocean Software in the early 90’s, and the team were hard at work on the title. It seems Grandslam must have kicked … Continue reading →

An incomplete game from the 80’s, similar to Ghost and Goblins and Shadow Of The Beast, with functional graphics. Living Dead puts you in the control of a skeleton who roams around a ghost town, but roaming around for what … Continue reading →

More from the creative mind of Duncan Kershaw – this time an impressive clone of Super Locomotive. It was more based on Tony Crother’s Loco game than the arcade original though to Duncan’s own admission. This was being done roughly … Continue reading →

It has been found that thanks to one of our visitors, Helfried, that this game was in fact published by a German magazine called "Magic Disk Classic". The full game can be found on Gamebase here: http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=4430&d=18&h=0 This entry is … Continue reading →

A sequel to the wonderful Heavenbound game by Cosmos Designs was in production for Cherry Software in 1996. It caused a bit of a storm in a software drought era for the C64, promising some great new gameplay, and with … Continue reading →

A classic 3D maze game, cloned again on the C64. Sadly, apart from a modern looking font, the actual game is not progressing any further than its 80’s counterparts. Graphically its very simplistic, and overall the gameplay is very simplistic, … Continue reading →