Games That Weren't^®

Sector seems to be a very early stage puzzle shuffle game which was left to rot for reasons unknown. It looks colourful and well designed enough, but it’s an idea which has been seen many times over already. Did the … Continue reading →

Nothing really much to say about this title – it has some nice titles and a bit of a preview to show, but very little interaction. The demo just has a ship that you can move over a scrolling background, … Continue reading →

Very aptly named is our next entry, known only as Prototype. It even comes with its own proper logo, so it wasn’t a working title either. And the preview is very much a prototype, with not a huge amount to … Continue reading →

This early C64 game is a very promising sort of Xevious clone with futuristic backgrounds. It’s very glitchy in places, but it seemed to be shaping up nicely at the time. We guess that the game got leaked out, and … 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 →

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 →

Yet another puzzler to add to the archives, this time something a little different where you must replicate the pattern on the right most box. It’s pretty simple stuff, with some snazzy presentation at the bottom – it isn’t anything … Continue reading →

Move Out is another tile based puzzler, though I couldn’t quite work out what you were meant to do. Anyone have any ideas? Well, contributor Ken Knight found the following via the comments: “The only thing I figured out as … Continue reading →

This preview certainly is a mystery, and we guess this was a working title for a game cracked by Russ Michaels from his Ironfist days. This is a simple multi-directional scroller where you control a space ship within a maze. … Continue reading →

Also known as Moonstone – A hard days knight, this is an unofficial conversion of the Mindscape Amiga game, and a very good start too which has been made! There are some cool introduction sequence screens, followed by some brief … Continue reading →