Games That Weren't^®

A very quick entry for a proposed sequel which doesn’t seem to ever got past the planning stage. Black Knight was a late game in the C64’s life, coming out in 1996 and released by Polish games company TimSoft. It … Continue reading →

Black Shadow was to be a vertical scrolling shoot em up in the vein of Xevious and Xenon. It was released on the Amiga and ST with mixed reviews, and was mentioned in TGM as being imminent. You can see … Continue reading →

In a recent 2020 feature on Black Tiger in Retro Gamer magazine, C64 developer Mark Hughes (who worked on the released Black Tiger conversion) revealed that they were offered the chance to do the conversion after US Gold received a … Continue reading →

Yet another title which had graphic work being done by Haydn Dalton, but again another title we don’t know that much about at the moment, until we chat to Haydn about it. We have no idea who the game was … Continue reading →

The third and final game in the Blinky game series sadly never quite came to life. Mentioned at the end of Titanic Blinky, Arthur J Hackensack sends himself back in time to the Wild West in America just as the … Continue reading →

An entry where there isn’t too much we can say at present. Reports are of a game which was in production by some Hungarian "demo freaks", which had music exclusively produced for it by Guy Shavitt. The music doesn’t seem … Continue reading →

A quick entry for another game being developed by Tony Gibbs. Tony will hopefully fill us in very soon with more information on the game. Basically, all we know at present was that Bloo! was to be a Pacman clone … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for a potential C64 game that wasn’t from Games Workshop. According to an ex-employee, for Blood Bath at Orc’s Drift – the programmer who was hired to create the game for various platforms had simply copied … Continue reading →

A Games Workshop board game of sorts by Tynesoft in their dying days I think. The game was first mentioned in around 1989 with Paul Rand from Zzap 64 talking about seeing the preview version in its early stages. He … Continue reading →

A very short placeholder entry for yet another missing 1987 American Action title – Blood’n Guts 2 Mentioned in Svenska Hemdator Nytt No.4/1987, it is suggested that the game would be released soon by the company on the Commodore 64 … Continue reading →

A quick entry for now until we learn more – but Bloody Kids was a game based on a comic strip that briefly featured in Skateboard Magazine. Players Software were to release the game as a budget title, but it … Continue reading →

Due for release in May 1985, Blue Sun was believed to have been a graphical adventure from Zinta Micro-Systems in 1985. Sadly, although advertised in the US – it seems the game was never released. Quite possibly it was due … Continue reading →

Yup, you guessed it!… another Beyond Belief title, this time brought to our attention by Marco Das, who found a little advert from Beyond Belief stating about the game’s up and coming release. Sadly we only know of a name, … Continue reading →

Ok, a bit of a gap here with this one at present, but another title in the archive to be preserved at least as a memory for the time being. This is another game for Mastertronic which had graphics by … Continue reading →

Compute!’s Gazette (May 1990) ran a news piece on this possible baseball game from arcade specialists Data East. Bo was a superstar in the US, famous for playing both American Football and Major League baseball during his career as well … Continue reading →

This game was announced in an issue of Home Computer Weekly back in 1985 and was to be sponsored by Sir Bobby Charlton. It was promised that the game was to be very accurate and also featured input from Sir … Continue reading →