Games That Weren't^®

Titan’s Mystery was to be a new title from Italian label Genias for 1992. The game was mentioned in “C+VG Annuario 1992”, an addon to “C+VG” issue 11, December 1991… http://ready64.org/articoli /leggi/idart/30/-rivista -panorama-del-software-ludico -nazionale Stefan Roda, software manager in Genias, … Continue reading →

A strange naming for a title, so close to the publishing name. However, Titus The Fox was an above average platform affair on the 16-bit home computers. The 8-bit conversions were all planned also, and saw the release of the … Continue reading →

Yet another quick entry into the archive, highlighting a platformer title called “TJ”, which was being produced we think by the same team as those behind The Critters Company. Little is known at this stage, apart from that Raymond Zachariasse … Continue reading →

A very quick entry for a title that was being developed for System 3 by LT Software (who were to originally do International Karate and Twister on the C64). This was a robot shooter called TOBOR, which was ROBOT spelt … Continue reading →

Channel 8 Software, the company behind this GTW, Toddler Tutor, released a series of educational software in the 1980s, for the C64 and the CGL – Sord M5, which was a Japanese computer similar to the ZX Spectrum. They also … Continue reading →

A very quick entry which we will properly flesh out over time. But this was a Spanish arcade action game which was based on a cartoon of some kind. The game was split across 4 areas, including a Disco, Beach, … Continue reading →

A very quick placeholder entry for another surprise V1 entry. This time in the shape of Toki! Toki of course was eventually released on the C64, with a superb conversion by Al Dukes that was released onto cartridge. Rather surprisingly, … Continue reading →

A rather intriguing title from "The Edge" this time, and one which to be honest i’ve never really heard of before until now. The only mention seems to have been in Soft 1988, Issue 2, and no UK magazines at … Continue reading →

Now for yet another potentially uncovered title in the lost 20 something from Codemasters. This time a title which seems to have been the result of when Codemasters attempted to buy some cartoon licences from Hi-Tec after they ceased trading … Continue reading →

It was meant to be a nice conversion for the cool budget kings of Flair, Microvalue. Eventually it turned out to be a nightmare for the game’s developer. Topsy Turvy was being developed for Microvalue back in 1992 by Jed … Continue reading →

Thanks to Hedning for flagging this game up, but in COMPUTE’s Gazette May 1985, page 147, a game called Tornado Tom was flagged up. We know little about the game at present – but here is the scan from the … Continue reading →

Touchstone was a rather ambitious RPG/graphic adventure game which was being developed for Origin by Sensible Software, back in the days when Martin Galway was part of Sensible Software. Zzap 64, issue 61, ran an article on Sensible Software and … Continue reading →

Combining comedy and, er, cycling, Tour De Force was due for release by Gremlin Graphics in 1988 yet never materialized on the C64, despite being released on the Spectrum and CPC. Your objective is to cycle through various locations around … Continue reading →

Tournament Golf was to be a conversion of the Sega arcade game Arnold Palmer’s Tournament Golf for the C64. The only knowledge we have of such a conversion was from Elite’s very own website: http://www.elite-systems.co.uk/elite/htdocs/games.php?id=64 The game got a release … Continue reading →

‘Tower Toppler’ was basically the American version of Nebulus…. and none other than John Romero of Doom fame was beind it apparently. Nebulus basically involved you controlling a frog which had to be guided up a tower, all the way … Continue reading →