Games That Weren't^®

Thanks to @andynick42 on Twitter for flagging up this title that was advertised in the US and was due to be released by Interstel, who have a number of titles already preserved in Gamebase64. Spin Out was to be an … Continue reading →

Thanks to Jan Harries for highlighting this one, but when Rob Hubbard was asked to list all of the tunes he produced on the C64 – he turned up a few which never actually saw release (The game included). One … Continue reading →

Splidge and the Snowmen was to be a festive game in the mode of one of Richard Bayliss’ previous games Cetimiex. The game was being created 1999 and Richard was going to release Splidge and the Snowmen for the Christmas … Continue reading →

This game is one of the rumoured unreleased 22 Codemasters games which one day we hope to track down and bring to you, like Codemasters should have done a long time ago. Nothing is known about this game too well, … Continue reading →

Briefly mentioned in a magazine from the mid 80’s, there was apparently plans for a 4th game in the Spy Vs Spy series. The third game ends with our two spys being blasted into space. Therefore the theme of the … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a title which was being designed by Stephen Bedser in 1993 for the C64. The game had a working title of Squat Bot, and was based around a small robot that could change its faceplate … Continue reading →

Adept software recently released some of its old PC shareware games for free including one called Squarez deluxe. On their site they mentioned that the game originally started out as a C64 game called Squarez but was abandoned for the … Continue reading →

Squire was a game by Blue Chip software and Jim Zuber that would have been a financial planning based game, which was part of a series that included Millionaire and Baron. Although advertised and listed, the game is still very … Continue reading →

A short entry for now, as we are not 100% certain if a Commodore 64 conversion was ever on the cards. Stainless Steel was an arcade adventure game split into around four sections overall. You would start out on foot, … Continue reading →

Star Fighter was listed in a Triton Mail Order catalogue for the C64 and listed as a Cinematic Action in Space title with movie like effects. Solid 3D graphics were also stated, but there seems to be nothing of the … Continue reading →

Quest of Eternity was to be a space based text-adventure written by Ian Soutar with Argus Press and their Mind Games department. The description was as simple as “Starring The Zurga. After a desperate space battle only a fleet of … Continue reading →

Part of a series of Power House titles which never quite saw the light of day, or at least are not picked up in Gamebase 64. Did this game ever get a release? Certainly this title although mentioned in Zzap … Continue reading →

A very short entry for now, for a title that was being heavily considered for the C64, according to a review by C+VG. Star Goose was a vertical scrolling shoot-em-up, looking a little like Xenon, and with a 3D segment … Continue reading →

Part of an educational series, Star Maze is one of around 6 which is sadly missing and one which may have been released, but is very possible that it didn’t quite make it out. We’re not 100% sure what happened … Continue reading →