Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
Total results: 3507
1985, and Ocean were becoming the biggest UK C64 games company with its popular titles with Martin Galway’s fine music. Ocean, trying to dominate the market, bought licences to make conversions of some great programs, such as Knightrider, Miami Vice … Continue reading
Not worthy probably of individual entries, some of these may exist – but RR Software was one of the companies who popped up in a bedroom when the C64 was dying – very much like Visualize or EBES. The company … Continue reading
Rommel: Battles for Tobruk by Games Designers’ Workshop (GDW) was planned to be a war strategy game, based around four battles fought between the WWII German commander Rommel and the British in North Africa. Our evidence for the Commodore 64 … Continue reading
Think Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy, and add some Roller Coasters and some bits of theme park, and you have what is essentially Roller Coaster by Elite. A brilliant little game which got rave reviews on the Spectrum and Amstrad, but … Continue reading
Although eventually released, we are led to believe that there was an earlier version of Rodland on the C64 by Steve Snake, which was much different to the version that was eventually complete. So we enter Rodland V1 into the … Continue reading
John Phillips is linked to Roadstar XRi, and Your Sinclair detailed the game as follows: “Due in late August, it’s described as a racing shoot-em-up puzzle game (well of course), in which you fizz around 3-D tracks on an air … Continue reading
Advertised in Home Computer Weekly issue 104, Rhyme Land was to be an educational game where children can develop their skills of logic and deduction, improve their reading and spelling, and at the same time have tremendous fun. There were … Continue reading
Another brief one which was mentioned in The Games Machine’s news section. This was a budget title coming soon, but we know little more than that. Thanks to contributor Pablo Freire, we learn that a young developer from Spain called … Continue reading
A slightly different GTW this time, with us looking for a magazine listing from BigK magazine. The BigK magazine only ran for 12 issues and from issue 8 to issue 12, for the listings they had in their magazine, they … Continue reading
Renegade was was an attempt to push the Robotron style of multi-directional shoot-’em-up into more advanced territory, and on the C64 in particular! The game was to borrow heavily from the movie Aliens. It featured interconnected rooms filled with eggs, … Continue reading
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