Games That Weren't^®

Rip Off is a very simple single screen shooter that feels more of a technical demo than an actual game at this stage. There’s a simple ship at the bottom, and just a standard attack wave that swoops in and … Continue reading →

A rolling demo of a classic 3D maze themed game, with a grid and a scanner (Possibly to help track down enemies in the finished game). The game looks quite simplistic, like its other counterparts, and doesn’t seem to offer … Continue reading →

We had it all, over a decade of quality C64 games for our beloved machine, but it all had to end sometime. As the C64 started to make way for its 16-bit counterparts, titles were rushed and often there were … Continue reading →

Take a bit of Platoon level 1 style action, and take the sprites from Software Project’s "Hysteria", and you get "Runestone". This is another early game from the brains of Colditz and Fuzzball, Miles Barry. The game features sprites were … Continue reading →

A sort of “Lords of Midnight” type affair which got a release by Firebird on its “Hot Range” back in 1985, and in particular on the ZX Spectrum. A young Chris Yates and Jon Hare were just getting started in … Continue reading →

Our next title was found on a development disk that was likely given to Cory Kin by Mat Sneap back in the Compunet days. There isn’t anything playable unfortunately, but it seems that Mat Sneap produced a range of graphics … Continue reading →

A neat Minesweeper clone which was being worked on during the 1990s in Poland, and seems to have come quite some way. Unfortunately, for reasons currently unknown – the game has seemingly been abandoned long ago and it wasn’t polished … Continue reading →

It’s 1996 and games on the C64 are slowly drying up completely, the enthusiasm of creating new C64 games for mail order sale was dying too. Fanzines were the only real hope in the UK of any progress for the … Continue reading →

A rather interesting entry from the Dutch USA Team back in 1987 – Saviour is a 8-way directional scrolling shoot-em-up which looks a heck of a lot like Parallax in early stages. What is particularly interesting is that it is … Continue reading →

Thanks to Brendan Phoenix for the heads up.  Zzap 64 in October 1986 had a small news snippet about Scarabaeus 2 coming soon from Ariolasoft. Apparently the Zzap team had seen something of the game and thought it was very … Continue reading →

Sounds like a fight that has broken out in a Chemistry lab, but the game doesn’t quite resemble that in this sideways shoot-em-up. Quite a fair bit has been done for this game, all but the actual game itself. We’ve … Continue reading →

Another exciting title from the authors of Armalyte, Cyberdyne Systems. This time we were to be treated with a sooped up version of Sinistar from the arcades, with an awesome looking starfield effect and some superb graphics by Rob Levy. … Continue reading →

Forumites on Lemon 64 were happily surprised on the 4th August 2014, when the developer of a long lost adventure game of Scooby Doo was recovered and uploaded for the first time in over 20 years, after being recovered from … Continue reading →

After Turrican 2 and before Turrican 3 by Protovision and Smash Designs, another Turrican clone was being formed with a different main character. "Scorpion" was hoping to take off from where Turrican 2 left off and continue the craze of … Continue reading →

Our next title is a superb looking Scramble development that was started around 2009 and seems to have sadly gone off the radar. I remember being stunned by the amazing looking bitmap graphics and scroller, which has the level data … Continue reading →

Our next entry is a very good graphic adventure which is controlled with a joystick to move around different rooms and interact. Similar to games like BAT and Crime Time. This was a relatively late C64 game in its commercial … Continue reading →