Games That Weren't^®

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 →

A short entry for a Commodore MAX title that was proposed, but never finished and released. A baseball game by HAL Labs, which we know little more about. How far did it get? If you know anything more about this … 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 →

A technically impressive game which you’d never expect to see on a C64, though Gremlin had other plans… They had managed to get Lotus converted to the C64 with success, so Toyota Rally didn’t seem that impossible to try too. … Continue reading →

A short entry for a game that you can currently play, but not in its originally intended form. Strider 2 was a poor sequel released for various 8-bit and 16-bit platforms by US Gold and developed by Tiertex. Originally the … Continue reading →

Yet another Codemasters title that never was. This time, Codemasters put out an advert in a magazine – giving rates for conversions of their titles to other platforms. Transmuter was listed, with a £2500 bounty to convert from the Spectrum … Continue reading →

Trantor was a fairly well received game, but mainly for its awesome music and graphics. The game itself sucked a little bit, but overall it still has its fans. Recently C64 endings discovered that at the end of the first … Continue reading →

A very quick entry, but it seems that there exists a version of Trantor the Last Stormtrooper which features graphics by Paul (Dokk) Docherty. Paul Docherty wrote in a feature on C64.com that “I did some in-game graphics too, but … Continue reading →

At present for this title, we are merely going by a game title which was name dropped in a demo called Funitrax Banzai by Henrik Buus Jensen. In the greetings page, Henrik greets those who are working on the game … Continue reading →

Already there exists a TV game of the old classic TV series, but Domark decided to upgrade the old franchise on the C64 and soop up the aging Macmillan version which was already done. We don’t know exactly how far … Continue reading →

A short entry for a Grolier Electronic Publishing game spotted by Peter Weighill in an issue of Family Computing magazine October 1984. Treasure Hunter was described in the advert as follows: “Treasure Hunter which takes the whole family on an … Continue reading →