Games That Weren't^®

A very brief entry which has stemmed from a mention in Bob Pape’s R-Type book. In the book, Bob mentioned that both David Jolliff and Jim Smart had worked on a original futuristic Ikari Warriors-type game. They were hoping to … Continue reading →

A very quick entry which was picked up upon by browsing through Thomas Mogensen’s work directory in HVSC. Within the directory was a tune labelled “My big brothers game”, which must have been a game being developed by Ole Mogensen. … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a title mentioned by Paul Rogers as being in production. This was a 4 player platform game with parallax scrolling – unfortunately not getting any further than 25% complete. The concept according to Paul looked … Continue reading →

A short entry for now for a title that was developed for PSS by David Bolton (who had created titles such as Johnny Reb II for MC Lothlorien. Unfortunately the title cannot be recalled, but this was a title developed … Continue reading →

A short entry for a new GTW that was flagged up by Fabrizio Bartolini. This time a horizontal scrolling shoot’em up for the Commodore 64 created by Jonathan Wheatman. The game, according to an interview with Jonathan, was written when … Continue reading →

Very quick entry, but mentioned in a 1997 edition of Commodore Scene was a Summer Games styled game set in space being worked on by Ewen Gillies. There is no further evidence of the game, and we do not know … Continue reading →

Back around 1985 time, Antony Crowther was working on a game based on the Red Arrows, which is another GTW which we have within our archives. In an interview with Commodore Horizons, Antony suggested that his next project would possibly … Continue reading →

A very early entry for a game we don’t even know the title for yet. This was a title mentioned by Geoff Phillips as being in development at Orpheus around 1986 time. It was farmed out to a set of … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title which was mentioned by Andrew Braybrook in an interview with FREEZE64. After finishing Intensity, Andrew started another game design – but it wasn’t really shaped into a game or anything. A title sequence was … Continue reading →

Ben Hayes was famous for his music produced at Sonic Grafitti, but also did a stint of game development – producing the C64 versions of Bubble Dizzy and Wrestling Superstars for Codemasters. He was also part of the Kick Off … Continue reading →

A short entry to cover a title that was being developed by Peter Ward, who was the coder behind the recovered Scooby Doo game, and also the as of yet unpreserved Typhoon Thompson. This other unreleased game has no name … Continue reading →

Yet another from the news vaults of disk mags and fanzines back in 1997. This currently unnamed game was a rumourmill title which was apparently being developed by RRR/Oxyron (graphics) and Baldhead/Alphaflight (code). The game details are very sketchy to … Continue reading →

EXON + SCHN were rumoured to have been working on a Creatures/Rick Dangerous clone which was according to reports almost complete. We only ever heard of the game in a brief news item and then that was it. There only … Continue reading →

Another unnamed game, and this time by Stephen Kellett. This game is best described by its author… “I also had an un-released 4 way scrolling space game with a huge landscape to fly over (using some nify storage techniques). I … Continue reading →

Yet another game with no name, this time a title from American group From The Ashes, which was apparently to be a new Project Firestart style of game. And that is all we currently know at present. Looking at CSDB, … Continue reading →

An interesting title mentioned to us by Paul Hughes as a title which was shown to Gary Liddon at Thalamus, before Paul actually got signed up by Ocean Software. This was to be a full screen scrolling Spindizzy clone with … Continue reading →

An early days entry for a title which was being written by Glyn Williams, who wrote Cholo and Starglider on the C64. This title was a currently unknown Helicopter game which was to be released by Island Logic (a short-lived … Continue reading →