A bit of a shock when looking through some Darren Melbourne disks which C64.com preserved. This was simply labelled on a disk “Unnamed”, and it is certainly a game which was meant for CRL (due to the CRL logo appearing … 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 →
From what looks like a compilation, Ultra Games was some kind of gaming olympics title. An Epyx-style olympics game, with each event being a particular genre of computer game. Mentioned within the news pages of Zzap 64, the following 9 … 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 →
Briefly mentioned in an issue of Commodore Cracker, there was a brief news item saying that the conversion of Uefa Cup Soccer for the C64 was looking seriously delayed. It never surfaced unsurprisingly, and was most likely vapourware. Note in … Continue reading →
This game involved flying an hot air balloon across a slow scrolling landscape, dropping sandbags on enemies. The game was in fact released on the Atari 400 around the time with the same name, and was ported over to the … Continue reading →
A rather ambitious title which sadly never made it as more current life commitments came about. This was to be a cross between Narc, Splatterhouse and Final Fight, featuring some nice graphics similar to those in Rubicon, and over 200 … Continue reading →
DISCLAIMER: We are a non-profit digitisation project, aiming to digitally preserve software and history which would otherwise be lost for good. If for any reason there is anything that you do not wish to be on the website, please contact us for removal.
Games That Weren't® is the registered trademark of Frank Gasking.