Games That Weren't^®

More Activision for GTW, and this time a graphic adventure game called "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", based on the Science-Fiction novel from Robert A. Heinlein ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress ). All we know is that Charles H Weidman is linked … Continue reading →

A very quick entry, and probably not one to take too seriously! This was mentioned by a chap called Duncan Lyons from Stockport back in Issue 20 of Commodore Format. He wrote in to the letters pages saying that he … Continue reading →

A shoot-em-up game which got a release on the Amiga was also due for the C64 too, but seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth since its magazine advert. The Amiga game wasn’t too bad, but not … Continue reading →

A quick entry for a title that was spotted by Martin/Stadium64. This is a football quiz game based on the Merseyside blues football club. www.mobygames.com/game/official-everton-fc-intelligensia Versions were released for the Amiga and ST, but the C64 version is very much … Continue reading →

Although Epyx have been linked to this game from 1987, The Omnicron Conspiracy was eventually released by Imageworks in 1990. The game was a point-and-click based adventure game which looks like it would have been doable for sure on the … Continue reading →

Its a Demonware title yet again, and yet another Commodore Format Early Warning title. And you guessed it!… another one which never surfaced in any shape or form other than its blip on the CF scanner. We can only assume … Continue reading →

The Punisher was advertised in various magazines, and was advertised by The Edge for all machines, including the Commodore 64. The game is based on the film project of the time which starred Dolph Lundgren and which went straight to … Continue reading →

A quick entry of another Rocky Horror show game which CRL were planning to release, which was to be written up as a (slightly different?) story by Richard O’Brien and then converted to a game. This was following on from … Continue reading →

A quick entry for a title which was to be an Electronic Novel for Broderbund and Synapse.  Where most of the planned titles were released and coded by Joe Viera (http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php?a=5&f=1&id=1963&d=18&h=0), the rest of them for some reason never quite … Continue reading →

Text adventure from Kayde who went into administration at the 26th August 1983. Did Spectrum releases, tried to do C64 and Vic 20 ones, which never seemed to surface. The game in the advert (Two adverts were submitted by Peter … Continue reading →

When it comes to RPG’s one of the obstacles computer games have always had to overcome is how to proficiently transfer the unlimited experience of playing a pen and paper RPG, such as Dungeons and Dragons, to a computer, especially … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for a title which may well be vapourware, but was briefly mentioned in the news pages of Zzap Italia back in 1987. After the massive success of The Sentinel, it would have been no surprise had … Continue reading →

Advertised a lot in the magazines and created by Thalion/Grandslam, The Seven Gates Of Jambala is best described as a clone of Son Son II on the PC Engine, and not Super Mario :). The game was released on the … Continue reading →

Mentioned in issue June 1986 of Commodore User, this was a game mentioned as coming soon along with 3 Days in Carpathia. It was described as a sience fiction saga and would have been written in The Biro like with … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that may or may not have ever been released. This title was flagged up by Mat Allen. This was an educational title that was to be released by Commodore on cartridge, and supporting the … Continue reading →

A very quick entry to confirm a title which was on the rumour list for sometime for the C64GS. Thanks to coder Neil Harding, we can confirm that there was to be an improved cartridge edition of The Spy Who … Continue reading →