Games That Weren't^®

This is a very short stub entry for now for a game called Nightmare around the Falklands, which was a concept for a Commodore 64 game that was highlighted on Viktor T. Toth’s website. Please see the gallery for more … 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 →

Nimitz was being produced by Martech back in 1988 (possibly started even further back in 1986!) and Andrew found the game whilst scanning through ACE magazine (September 1988). In the mention, the price was quoted as £9.99 for cassette and … Continue reading →

A rather interestingly named game, Ninja Grannies was first heard about thanks to an entry on the World Of Spectrum and its own particular entry. The game was to be a multi-loader, multi-level pensioner fighting game. According to the developer, … Continue reading →

Yet another Titus title which was mentioned in a schedule list from 1990 for the C64 on Tape and Disk. Strangely the game never surfaced on any platform and doesn’t seem to have got past the schedule list. Just what … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a potential conversion of a popular Amiga game by Psygnosis. USER magazine back in October 1990 had listed the C64 version as being one of the available formats, so was this true at all? We’ve … Continue reading →

Nuclear Sub Command was being sold as a “Realistic Nuclear Attack Sub Simulation” in a 1992 issue of RUN magazine from the US. The game was sold on disk, but it seems that this is one that either didn’t sell … Continue reading →

Thanks to contributor Karl Kuras for the heads up. Nuclear War was a fairly well received strategy war game that was released on the Amiga and PC back in 1990 by New World Computing. The game advertisement would however list … Continue reading →

Our next title is a strategy game which can allow for up to 4 players in total. Number Jotto is described as follows: “Deduction, logic and patience are the skills you must master to win the game. The object is … Continue reading →

A game which was advertised by The Learning Company in the manual for Bumble Plot, which was released. Described as “In the electronic version of a classic 14th century game of chance, children learn to add and subtract and also … Continue reading →

Nutland was a game being written in the early 80’s by Richard Taylor, featuring a squirrel main character. At present we do not know any more information about the game, and will be updating this entry as we get more … Continue reading →