Games That Weren't^®

A short entry for a set of expansion packs/modules that were being advertised and developed for Knights of Legend. They were only advertised by Origin and were available from them, not available in stores or advertised in magazines. Thanks to … Continue reading →

Yet another System 3 title takes to the GTW stage, this time with a rather obscure title which was briefly mentioned on a news clipping for System 3 in Zzap 64. As well as talking about Last Ninja and Bangkok … Continue reading →

When the C64 was dying out commercially, Jon Wells was trying to flood the C64 with new releases. One of his ideas was to take the entire back catalogue of Clive Wilson adventure titles and update them with new graphics, … Continue reading →

"My whole bodyached as I scrambled back into the chopper.. the subs were back! … The rockets were coming in over Krakatoa and the constant explosions had brought the volcano to life!… I could stay to defend the tanker or … Continue reading →

Another combined entry for a series of titles, this time from Krell 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 →

Another rather odd licence which has been dug up – Mentioned in Computer Gamer (October 1985), this was listed along with the announcements of Knightrider, Streethawk and Rambo. Now this particular licence never came through in the end, but Domark … Continue reading →

Thanks to contributor Asphodel for flagging up that a C64 version of Apple classic Kukulcan was seemingly produced, thanks to this entry on a museum website: http://gue.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?pub=3&item=12&id=2&key=0 Unsure if this was a mistake, we contacted the original author Michael Giltzow … Continue reading →

A long winded name for a point and click adventure by Exxos (who produced Captain Blood and Purple Saturn Day) was once penned for release on the C64 back in 1989. But as with Purple Saturn Day, the C64 version … Continue reading →

Yet another Beyond Belief game which was planned and mentioned in the interview with Jim Scott. Information is a bit scarce, as all we currently know is that the game was to be a horizontally scrolling game which was based … Continue reading →

Thanks to NM156 for the heads up. Kung Fury was a comedy short film with lots of references to 80’s martial arts had a game adaptation in the works called Kung Fury: Street Rage Apparently a limited release on the … Continue reading →

It has been somewhat of a mystery about Kwik Snax on the C64, which ended up being a completely different game to the ZX Spectrum puzzler of the same name. The ZX Spectrum game was a spruced up Pengo clone, … Continue reading →