Games That Weren't^®

CJ is probably one of the biggest games to come out of Codemasters apart from Dizzy back in the day. Originally created by the hugely talented Genesis team, the game spawned a sequel and then promise of this 3rd (and … Continue reading →

A short entry for now until we find out some more, but this was a text adventure game that was mentioned in a German C64 magazine called Aktueller Software Markt – where the title Classroom Chaos was announced as coming … Continue reading →

Cloak of death was to be a horror based text-adventure written by David Cockram with Argus Press and their Mind Games department. The description was as simple as “Starring Ghosts Galore, Spine Chilling, blood curdling, great gory graphics, Horror, Shock … Continue reading →

A very short entry for now regarding a game which was produced by Karl Hörnell during his Players Software development days. The game was called Clod Jumper, and would involve controlling a guy who could step inside a robot suit, … Continue reading →

Club JR’s is a text adventure game for over 18’s which was advertised in RUN magazine in the US, where you date up to 13 women and live through a dating lifestyle. The game come on approximately 3 disks, had … Continue reading →

An interesting tale to tell with our next entry, which is thanks to the excellent interview with Jason Finch from Commodore Format. This was to be an adventure game that was to be sneaked onto the very last issue of … Continue reading →

Cobra was of course released on the C64 by Ocean Software in 1986, but Paul Hughes was a bigger fan of Joffa Smith’s awesome (and far better) Spectrum effort. So much so that just before joining Ocean, Paul started converting … Continue reading →

A very short entry, flagged up to us by Fabrizio Bartoloni. This is for a title called Code 3, which may well have been released, but has yet to be preserved. This is an Italian title that was being sold … Continue reading →

A game which was advertised by The Learning Company in the manual for Bumble Plot, which was released. Described as “A brand new type of colouring book for young artists – children learn about colours, hues and matching. Ages 3-6” … Continue reading →

Advertised in many magazines, this was a title being sold by Anik Microsystems… however only two Anik games exist and seem to have been released on the C64. The advert describes the game as follows: "A fascinating game of logic … Continue reading →

Originally billed as the sequel to Psychedelia, Colourspace took Jeff Minter’s light show program to another level… but only on the Atari (and BBC we think..). The amazing limitless abilities to create various light effects to accompany your music collection … Continue reading →

Our next entry is a text adventure from 1986, which may well have been released – but has yet to be found and fully preserved. The game was released by Kalisti Enterprises for the C64, and the task was to … Continue reading →

Yet another Titus title which was mentioned in a schedule list from 1990 for the C64 on Tape and Disk (And later cart!). We know very little about the game though sadly – as there is no sign of any … Continue reading →

The only information we originally had on this game comes from a CES show in Chicago, USA in 1987. Basically the game was to be a chess game, with the background being shown as a landscape. Avalon Hill made its … Continue reading →