Games That Weren't^®

EXON + SCHN were rumoured to have been working on a Creatures/Rick Dangerous clone which was according to reports almost complete. We only ever heard of the game in a brief news item and then that was it. There only … Continue reading →

Another unnamed game, and this time by Stephen Kellett. This game is best described by its author… “I also had an un-released 4 way scrolling space game with a huge landscape to fly over (using some nify storage techniques). I … Continue reading →

Ben Hayes was famous for his music produced at Sonic Grafitti, but also did a stint of game development – producing the C64 versions of Bubble Dizzy and Wrestling Superstars for Codemasters. He was also part of the Kick Off … Continue reading →

Yet another game with no name, this time a title from American group From The Ashes, which was apparently to be a new Project Firestart style of game. And that is all we currently know at present. Looking at CSDB, … Continue reading →

Very quick entry, but mentioned in a 1997 edition of Commodore Scene was a Summer Games styled game set in space being worked on by Ewen Gillies. There is no further evidence of the game, and we do not know … Continue reading →

An interesting title mentioned to us by Paul Hughes as a title which was shown to Gary Liddon at Thalamus, before Paul actually got signed up by Ocean Software. This was to be a full screen scrolling Spindizzy clone with … Continue reading →

Universal Military Simulator was a very advanced battle strategy game which was developed by Rainbird and was released on the ST and Amiga platforms back in 1988. For more details about the game, check out Richard Hewison’s excellent write up … Continue reading →

Selindek Software Studio (SSS) was a Hungarian Software house which did a few adventure games. Uj Vadnyugat was to be a trio of adventure games – two of which did make it to release back in 1989, but sadly the … Continue reading →