Games That Weren't^®

A platform game, where you are given the chance of actually creating you own levels. Good, but unfortunately the game itself lacks a lot of thing to make it that playable. Apart from some simple graphics, a simple main character … Continue reading →

Nether is a game that I can remember from the days of Commodore Scene, being touted as a Doom clone. Eventually when I saw a preview, there wasn’t much to see and I then completely forgot about it. The game’s … Continue reading →

I’m surprised that we hadn’t had an entry for this title a lot sooner, but there you go! Many may not know that New Zealand Story was originally being developed out of house by Choice Software, a Northern Ireland based … Continue reading →

Thanks to screenshots from various magazines for an Amiga version of Night Hunter, it can be confirmed that this is in fact Night Hunter by Ubisoft. In the game, you control a nice Hi-res overlaid Dracula who must roam around … Continue reading →

Our next title is a simple minesweeper style game which was being done in the mid-late 90’s for an unknown source. It’s a nice enough implementation, but nothing too special which hasn’t been seen before. The likelihood is that the … Continue reading →

Nodule is nothing out of the ordinary, and repeats a genre of game that has been done before. Here you control a blue blob which has to navigate past green obstacles, while not touching them and avoiding worms. All within … Continue reading →

An interesting start of what seems to be an interpretation of Duck Hunt on the C64. It’s not badly done, though the target is a little slow and lethargic. But it looks promising overall, and would have maybe made a … Continue reading →

Nuclear Nick was one of a few titles advertised by Electric Dreams back in issue 8 of Zzap 64 games. Nuclear Nick was to be part of a double pack with a game called Scooter. It never quite surfaced, but … Continue reading →

Nucleus is an interesting game, not for its gameplay however (which is a basic invader clone). Well for a start, there is music in this game which sounds a lot like a Jon Dunn tune, but is infact by a … Continue reading →

Octron was Enthusi’s first attempt at game coding around 2007-2008 time – the game being an impressive 8 player Tron game! To play with 4 players, you would need a 4 player adaptor, and for 8 – two C64’s and … Continue reading →

Omega Ceti is a title that has been around for some time, possibly first surfacing on Compunet as a preview. The game is an interesting Uridium clone of sorts – which has a split screen display for two players to … Continue reading →

On Table is a very simple looking Pacman clone from 1997 where you control a strange spaceship style sprite over a shaded background. It has some functional graphics, and a nice tune (which starts off sounding like Supremacy with its … Continue reading →

A very simple side way scrolling shooter which was apparently being done for Markt and Technik back in 1992. Your fighter is fixed to the bottom of the screen and has no real interaction at this stage, but there are … Continue reading →

Oolong is a game which seems to be based on the character from Yie Ar Kung-Fu, and when you play this early preview – its clear to see that the entire game is based on that arcade. The moves are … Continue reading →

A graphically superb Pang clone from the publishers of PP Hammer, Ooops Up promised to beat the Ocean single screen arcade conversion, where you had to shoot various bubbles (which broke into smaller ones) until all were cleared from the … Continue reading →

Our next entry is quite a nice and polished fighting game from 1987, featuring some ripped Rob Hubbard music for good measure. You can kick enemies, or shoot them with a gun or bazooka, or throw grenades at them. There … Continue reading →

A Dinamic Software game that never was. Operation Neptune was a game that was produced by Narciso Quintana, who back in 1987 wanted to work within the games industry. He sent a music demo off to Dinamic, and had a … Continue reading →

Unfortunately another game in the archive I couldn’t get working to tell you about. Its quite a simple puzzler, with high detailed monocrome hi-res backgrounds. I remember the preview being very poor, and not really getting me too excited. More … Continue reading →