Games That Weren't^®

No doubt a working title, but Ah Type is pretty much as you would guess and is a clone of R-Type in very early stages. But even though it is early stages, what has been done so far is very … Continue reading →

A short entry for a Badminton game which was being produced by Cory Kin during his early days of programming. Nothing much was ever started apart from a small tech demo to show a scrolling playfield. The graphics are merely … Continue reading →

A quick entry for remains of a bouncy platformer game in very early stages and written by Cory Kin. There was no name attached to the game, but upon executing we have a sprite which drops down from the top … Continue reading →

Yet another title from the brilliant Cory Kin, and this time a very impressive vertically scrolling shoot-em-up, with some lovely graphics and attack waves. It’s still early days and a relatively short map, but there is enough here to show … Continue reading →

Xytris is a really strange puzzler, which isn’t a tetris puzzler like you may think from the name, but a title where you must re-create the character from the box on the right side of the screen. There are two … Continue reading →

Xoanon (released as Xoanon Reptilia – which we’ll come onto shortly…) seems to be an early version of Xenon, or at least Gamebase makes the link with the game. So, are they indeed the same game? This preview just seems … Continue reading →

A simple and quick preview, but one which has been done very well and features a sort of wizard that you have to guide to the end of a room, avoiding some sort of raindrops. We believe that this was … Continue reading →

Trailrunner is an interesting preview, mostly because it seems to be lifting a lot from the C64 conversion of Stun Runner, at least in the main sprite form anyway. I wonder if Trailrunner was being developed in response to the … Continue reading →

This is the start of what seems to be an odd conversion of a title released on Amiga and PC – an icon driven graphic adventure game which was called “Telekommando II – The Return of the Telekommando” Nothing is … Continue reading →