Games That Weren't^®

This is a very short stub entry for now for a game called The Astronaut Eater, which was a concept for a Commodore 64 game that was highlighted on Viktor T. Toth’s website. Please see the gallery for more details … Continue reading →

The Battle Of Chickamauga was going to be a stragetic war game, of which there are many on the C64. Its scheduled release was for 1987, by Games Designers’ Workshop (GDW), an American company who already had a fine pedigree … Continue reading →

A short entry for a SSG title for the C64 that was advertised in its 1988-1989 catalog as coming soon. With thanks to Joseph Tsai for highlighting. Note, this is not to be confused with the game by Argus Press. … Continue reading →

A quick entry due to a lack of information at present. The Blues Brothers eventually did get a C64 release thanks to Titus Software back in 1991, but way back in 1987, CRL were also due to create a game … Continue reading →

Bobby Yazz is a computerised game show, featuring various games to win prizes and the normal quiz routine you got with many computer based game shows. The fun novel approach was appealing to many, and the game received good reviews … Continue reading →

An interesting puzzler which was released for the Amiga and Amstrad platforms, but not on the C64 – as stated would be the case in C&VG magazine. This was released in Europe under the name of “Tiny Skweeks” The game … Continue reading →

Mentioned in Commodore Format’s early warning scanner, no doubt this was to be a Boxing game most likely. However, Beyond Belief had already released Devastating Blow (http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=2147&d=18&h=0), so was this to be a more management styled boxing game instead? We … Continue reading →

Yet another game advertised by Goldstar in Your Computer magazine 1984. This was another text adventure which sadly never was! It is currently missing sadly. It could be a case that the game just hasn’t turned up yet, or it … Continue reading →

A very short placeholder entry for yet another missing 1987 Computer Novels title – The Count of Monte Cristo. Mentioned in Svenska Hemdator Nytt No.4/1987, it is suggested that the game would be released soon by the company on the … Continue reading →

Very quick entry, as there isn’t a great deal to really say about this one. A quite bizzare advert showed up from Mirage Software in Home Computer Weekly, mostly asking for programmers and then advertising a title for the C64 … Continue reading →

Our next entry is for a series of tools which was being advertised in 1986 in Zzap 64 magazine. The suite included a music, a battle game construction kit and an arcade game construction kit. Although the Arcade Creator was … 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 →

A rather old Probe game is next up, and from the depths of 1985 to be precise. The Devils Crown is an explorationg based game where you go under the sea to explore a sunken ship for treasure. CPC Reviews … Continue reading →

The Doomsday Papers was originally an Adventure game release on the ZX Spectrum by a newly formed software house from two teenagers Matthew Holmes and Andrew (Unknown surname), with the software house name "Matand" being a combination of both their … Continue reading →

A very quick entry thanks to Peter Weighill for a game that was advertised by American Eagle in 1984. The Elysian Fields was released on the Apple 2, but the Commodore 64 edition of the game seems to be completely … Continue reading →