Games That Weren't^®

Outbreak is a decent stab at a clone of Dr. Mario on the C64, which was due for release by the short-lived C64 label Flimsoft back in 2013. The game seems to have been pretty much mostly running, just lacking … Continue reading →

An exclusive look at another Cosmos Designs title you may not have heard about before. This is another fantastic looking Cosmos Designs game which has sadly never seen the light of day. We didn’t know much about the game, but … Continue reading →

An intriguing title next up, which we are as of yet unsure if it was intended as an official conversion pitch attempt or was something unofficial to demonstrate the credentials of Video Images. Two loading screen variants were created, but … Continue reading →

A rather yellow looking, but impressive representation of the Another World animated introduction on the C64. Called ‘Outside’, its not known if this intro was created as part of another game, or actually just as a demo part. More confirmation … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title which was to be an epic role playing game for the C64. Graphics and music had already been mostly completed, but the game itself hadn’t been programmed. Development was started around 1991, and finished … Continue reading →

Another pacman clone, with a imaginative title of "Pacman X" :).. A fairly early preview, as the game is not 100% playable. The game is slightly modernised from the original Pacman, but not by too much. The graphics are still … Continue reading →

Paku Paku is another stab at trying to bring an accurate conversion of Pac Man to the C64, and its not too bad at this early stage. It’s not entirely accurate, but it plays well and looks good – with … Continue reading →

Although Pang actually did make it out on the C64, it wasn’t just Arc Developments who had a crack at producing the C64 conversion. Programmer of the C64 version of Speedball 2 and Turtles, Carl Muller tried to get the … Continue reading →

First Star are famous for some fantastic C64 games, such as the Spy vs. Spy and Boulderdash series and many more. Along with these fantastic titles there seems to be a few which got away too. One such title that … Continue reading →

A bit of a shock finding from Visualize Software way back late in 2004. Upon digging out some disks, Kenz stumbled across some demos by Jon Wells, which included this interesting little preview called “Parallax Preview”. This was thought to … Continue reading →

A graphically nice looking Arkanoid clone, featuring background images from various games and demo’s. The game was being developed by Thomas Mittelmeyer around 1993/94 – who is famous critically for Lemmings on the C64. More polished looking than Arkanoid, but … Continue reading →

PenPalz was a neat little game that was being developed back in Jan 1997 by John Pericos and Nathan Perry – intended for GO64. The idea is simple – draw on the screen as much as you can and try … Continue reading →

An interesting conversion of the ZX Spectrum version of Melbourne House’s Penetrator, which did actually see a C64 conversion back in the day. However, many feel that the ZX Spectrum edition was far superior, so it is interesting to see … Continue reading →

After the games stopped being reviewed in Commodore Format, it looked like the end. That was, until a games explosion occurred and where this little gem was all seemingly ready for release. Being coded in Finland, this Bomberman clone was … Continue reading →

Indeed, there was another version of Penguin Tower in production, by non other than Ewen Gillies. After the non-appearance of the original game by Jani Hirvo, Ewen was very disappointed and decided to create and finish off the original game … Continue reading →

A interesting puzzle game with some very interesting credits too. Created by Miles Barry, who has had an unfortunate record with his game releases, having worked on Fuzzball and Escape From Colditz as well as this little puzzler. Graphics were … Continue reading →