I Of The Mask
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A very popular and ground breaking game on the Spectrum, was in fact also planned for the Commodore 64 back in 1987. Sandy White, creator of Ant Attack and Zombie Zombie, set to work on creating one of the most … Continue reading
Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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A very popular and ground breaking game on the Spectrum, was in fact also planned for the Commodore 64 back in 1987. Sandy White, creator of Ant Attack and Zombie Zombie, set to work on creating one of the most … Continue reading
One more Channel 8 Software ‘Game That Wasn’t’ for the collection, I, Spy for Children was part of a slew of planned released by Channel 8 Software, several of which never saw the light of day. Judging from the name … Continue reading
A very obscure title now, and yet another Firebird title to enter the archives. Ice Age mainly has come to light due to the SID file which is in HVSC that Jeroen Tel did for this game and sound effects … Continue reading
According to an article Aktueller magazine (05/1986), Nu Wave’s ID game was not only to be produced on the Spectrum, but would later get converted to the Amstrad and Commodore 64 platforms. It didn’t quite happen though – possibly due … Continue reading
An Italian title which may have been released, but is currently missing and yet to be preserved. Can you help us and ready64.org to recover it? Il Conte (The Count) was a text adventure game which was created by Riccardo … Continue reading
1989 MikroBitti Magazine Platform: Atari ST A slightly unusual post now, for a title that wasn’t really a game – but then almost turned into one! Illuminatus was news to me, until I heard from contributor Janne Sirén, who highlighted … Continue reading
Ilogical was to be a C64 conversion of a title which has seen release on a variety of platforms, and is a cool Picross clone: http://computeremuzone.com/ficha.php?id=744&l=en Sadly the C64 edition was never properly finished. Initially things were very slow by … Continue reading
Crystal Software and Electronics were an ambitious software house trying to save the C64 gaming market back in 1997 with a large range of planned releases. Sadly it wasn’t to be, and as with other companies – it was found … Continue reading
1994 Microprose Platforms: Super Nintendo, SEGA Mega Drive Also known as “Impossible Mission: The 90s Remix”, Impossible Mission 2025 was to be an enhanced version of the classic 1984 Commodore 64 platformer from Epyx. Not only featuring a whole new … Continue reading
Our next title is a text adventure which was being written by Tony Rome in 2014. Tony had created an adventure game called The Chinese Box, and this was his next title. In 2012, Tony posted that his new adventure … Continue reading
A bit of a surprise spotting in the preview section of Zzap!64 issue 52 in 1989. It seems that the Last Crusade action game was to feature multi-coloured based graphics instead of the hi-res ones we all know. What we … Continue reading
A very quick entry for a title we know very little about. The first we heard about Industria 14 was via Martin Holland, who said that he did the game for we believe Software Creations back around 1990. It is … Continue reading
A very short entry for a title which may have been something advertised in early magazines. The game was to be released by Playsoft, but we know very little else apart from this. The game is also part of a … Continue reading
1994 Ocean Software Platform: Amiga CD32 As Commodore were desperately holding on towards the mid-1990s, the Amiga CD32 was also desperate for an injection of new and exciting titles to try and help keep everything afloat. Ocean and Digital Image … Continue reading
Another quick entry due to a lack of information. Inside Trader was a stock market game which was mentioned in Commodore User September 1988 for the PC Show 88 preview. The game came out on the PC, but not on … Continue reading
Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Intellectual Software, which may or may not have been released. These have been highlighted to us thanks to Bertrand / Atari Frog. These were Commodore 64 titles listed in … Continue reading
1997-1998 Team 17 Platforms: PC, Mac and Amiga A quick entry post for a football management game that was due for release by non other than Team 17 back around 1997/98 time – thanks to Niklas Lindholm for the heads … Continue reading
Interceptor 2160 AD was a superb sounding game which boasted 4-layer parallax scrolling Defender/Choplifter/Falcon Patrol/Sanxion style action. Produced by Marc Walters, sadly nothing more than a scrolling demo was ever created, and nothing playable ever surfaced.. Marc tells GTW that … Continue reading
2017 Eric Hilaire Platform: Commodore Vic 20 Our next VIC-20 entry is sadly one only announced in recent years as a new development. A conversion of System 3’s classic one-on-one fighter International Karate. Started in 2017 by Eric Hilaire and … Continue reading
Yet another magazine showing screenshots of one of our favourite titles, but with graphics not ever gracing the final game. Take a look at the screenshots in November 1987’s edition of Commodore User magazine below (scans thanks to Mort!) and … Continue reading
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