Games That Weren't

Xyphoe · 17:41, 09 March 14

Also "Duck Tales" that was advertised for both CPC *AND* GX4000...

http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/File:ACU9103-076.jpg

CrookieMonster · 18:34, 09 March 14

I struggled to get to the bottom of Spider-Man this time around. We had to think about space too. But I'm continuing to plug away on this one. Thank you to everyone who helped on the forum and to Mr Campbell for some great steers.

arnoldemu · 18:53, 09 March 14

Quote from: CrookieMonster on 18:34, 09 March 14
I struggled to get to the bottom of Spider-Man this time around. We had to think about space too. But I'm continuing to plug away on this one. Thank you to everyone who helped on the forum and to Mr Campbell for some great steers.

Any chance the sprites from the GX4000 version of Toki could be shared and put up on the wiki?

CrookieMonster · 20:14, 09 March 14

I'll get a message to Dave who I'm sure will be fine with that and whack it across.

rexbeng · 15:19, 10 March 14

I just watched Xyphoe's new video of the Retro Gamer issue with the "Amstrad Games that Weren't" feature... A bit pity that the article misses some abandoned projects of the homebrew community, like Rigor Mortis and 'Cannon Fodder' from Odiesoft, or Face Hugger's 'Contra' clone; and I'm pretty sure there's more to remember if I squezzed my brain harder.

That said, the feature seems fixed on the UK (sommercial) scene, so maybe it's kind of expected that homebrews from the continent would be forgotten entirely (pun

), but then there's mention of Killing Fist which is a surprise! I remember having first seen a playable version while visiting Thriller some... well.... many years back. I'm wondering if I still have a copy in one of my numerous 5.25 disks...

I don't know if there's mention in the feature, but the Killing Fist engine was used in the duel stages in Xyphoes Fantasy. In fact, the duel stages in XF, IS Killing Fist.

rb

Carnivius · 18:09, 10 March 14

Quote from: rexbeng on 15:19, 10 March 14
I just watched Xyphoe's new video of the Retro Gamer issue with the "Amstrad Games that Weren't" feature... A bit pity that the article misses some abandoned projects of the homebrew community, like Rigor Mortis and 'Cannon Fodder' from Odiesoft, or Face Hugger's 'Contra' clone; and I'm pretty sure there's more to remember if I squezzed my brain harder.

I've not heard of any of those projects so would be quite curious to see them.

cpc4eva · 18:27, 10 March 14

these attachments might be some cpc games that werent the articles are from AA mags.....

i also believe i saw the game i.o advertised for cpc in one of the game mags back in the day.

some others i thought were going to be released for cpc were the entire leaderboard series of gamesbut only a couple were released on cpc.

i am not sure but test drive was another we never saw on cpc.

i also believe i read that in an issue of AA there was a car game to be released on cpc micro machines or something like that but never appeared it was meant to be a great game on other formats.

cpc4eva · 18:28, 10 March 14

some more attachments of possible games that werent on cpc

Carnivius · 18:30, 10 March 14

Quote from: cpc4eva on 18:27, 10 March 14
i also believe i read that in an issue of AA there was a car game to be released on cpc micro machines or something like that but never appeared it was meant to be a great game on other formats.

Micro Machines was a fun game. Had various versions of it on Amiga, Mega Drive and NES. Screen size and scrolling may be an issue with a CPC version but I can't see it being impossible to do to a playable and fun level of quality.

rexbeng · 19:04, 10 March 14

Well, for starters, everything you'd want to know about Odiesoft's games you can find here: Odiesoft's homepage

Face Hugger's Contra along with other products of his can be found here: Face Hugger - CPCWiki

rb

Carnivius · 20:28, 10 March 14

Thanks for the links. Some good reading there.

Shaun M. Neary · 01:42, 11 March 14

Could be wrong, but i'm almost certain that Re-Bounder was meant to be released on all 3 major 8 bits.
C64 was the only one that surfaced though in the end. All sorts of complications apparently took place with a Speccy version too, and given the amount of speccy ports Gremlin were doing in 87-88, the CPC version probably would have been ported from the speccy had it been a success.

Food for thought?

arnoldemu · 10:27, 11 March 14

I have added some of these to the vaporware category page on the wiki.

cpc4eva · 13:35, 11 March 14

im 100% that i read in one of the Amstrad mags that hewson had a games called Emmanuel due to be released and i believe had released it but it got censored and taken off shelves because of nudity GFX or something like that.

which is funny cause stormlord had a female with no clothes on go figure

Shaun M. Neary · 05:59, 12 March 14

Here's another one for ya...
Almost every Konami game that came out between 1985-1990 ended up on the CPC, I still remember getting Konami's Arcade Collection at the end of 1988 (only to have a fault in the second tape, but nothing a self duplicate didn't fix!). For some reason Jackal was replaced by Iron Horse on the Commodore 64, never quite understood why because it was actually released.

The same cannot be said for Iron Horse on the CPC though! The funny thing was, Imagine clearly had it planned.
Press release here, however I never saw it around anywhere:

arnoldemu · 09:49, 12 March 14

Iron horse didn't appear on spectrum either.

So perhaps no spectrum version = no cpc version here.

Misel982001 · 14:11, 20 March 14

Do you have any data for the Judge dredd game? Anything? Can you post me please?

Shaun M. Neary · 19:47, 20 March 14

Quote from: arnoldemu on 09:49, 12 March 14
Iron horse didn't appear on spectrum either.

So perhaps no spectrum version = no cpc version here.

It's one that's up for discussion anyway, because Imagine's guys weren't big on speccy ports back in 87 when you consider the differences between the likes of Nemesis, Renegade and Green Beret to name a few.

Devlin · 18:53, 22 March 14

One more to have a look out for? Runes of Zendos. cheesy little half-graphical IF game - I know it got a release on Spectrum, but a CPC version was hinted at in issue 4(feb 86) of Amtix on page 55.
Does anyone know what happened to this one?
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/e/e8/Amtix_04_Page_055.jpg

khisanth · 20:50, 22 March 14

Barbarian III ! Complete Barbarian 2 and it says to look out for Barbarian III

EgoTrip · 21:58, 22 March 14

Quote from: Devlin on 18:53, 22 March 14
One more to have a look out for? Runes of Zendos. cheesy little half-graphical IF game - I know it got a release on Spectrum, but a CPC version was hinted at in issue 4(feb 86) of Amtix on page 55.
Does anyone know what happened to this one?
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/e/e8/Amtix_04_Page_055.jpg

Probably got pulled after that review

cpc4eva · 09:13, 29 March 14

saw this ad in AA16 for terra kresta and had a look for the game in cpcgamescd and tacgr and couldnt see it so i would add this to the list of cpc games that werent

zeropolis79 · 21:40, 29 March 14

Do we know if any coding was started on Dalek Attack on the CPC? Dad wants to know.

cpc4eva · 08:58, 30 March 14

iron horse and terra kresta were released on c64.

i have not played them but terra kresta seems to have got some good reviews

Shaun M. Neary · 02:24, 31 March 14

Terra Cresta was an odd on one me as well. I remember seeing that same ad in C+VG too.

It was the sequel to Moon Cresta in the arcades, and the prequel to Terra Force, which subsequently never got release on any format (There is a game called Terra Force on the Speccy, but it's not the same one).
I initially thought it was abandoned and they pushed Slap Fight in it's place, but that went to pot when C64 users had a copy.

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