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Knight Orc
1987 Level 9/Rainbird
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Gnome Ranger
1987 Level 9
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Time and Magik
1988 Level 9/Mandarin
(Level 9/Datasoft in the US)
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Lancelot
1988 Level 9/Mandarin
(Level 9/Datasoft in the US)
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Ingrid's Back
1988 Level 9
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Scapeghost
1989 Level 9
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Not
a lot of people know this, but the tape text-only
versions of all later Level 9 adventure games
contained much more detailed text in locations'
and items' descriptions (in order to make-up for
the absence of graphics) than their disk counterparts,
making playing both tape and disk versions a separate
experience. Sadly, most of these one-sided text-only
three-parters tended to be erased by collectors,
who in many instances mistakenly believed them
not to be 100% versions and were replacing them
with the 2-sided disk versions.
We
present here what Level 9 text-only versions we
possess, including (for completion's sake) the
tape version of Gnome Ranger which is fairly
common. By clicking on a picture you can see its
normal size.
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Ticket
to Paris
1986 Blue Lion Software
Blue Lion produced five educational games for
the C64 between 1986 and 1988, as part of their
'Ticket' series. They were:
Ticket
to London
Ticket to Paris
Ticket to Spain
Ticket to Hollywood
Ticket to Washington, DC
Only
Paris falls in the 'rare' category.
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Crosscheck
1986 Datasoft
The
only professional Crossword game on the C64!
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Teddy
Bear-rels of Fun
1987 Developmental Learning Materials
A
fun game for all ages, lets you draw your favourite
Teddy Bears, print them, then decorate your room
with them! Guaranteed satisfaction! :))
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Cabal
(US Version)
1990 Capcom
This
US version of the popular arcade game has not
been around much. For the record, let me mention
that the European version was produced in 1989
by Ocean and Special FX.
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Kaiser
(UK Version)
1985 Ariolasoft
It's
here! The first fruit of our Forever
Lost? section, it was brought to you thanks
to the hard earned pennies of Matthew Allen who
gave the highest bid in e-bay.
The
original's copy protection was removed in-house
by The Borg. Don't you just love a happy end?
:)
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Pictionary
(UK Version)
1989 Domark
A
nice board game (especially if you have artistic
talent ;) the French version of which seems to
be more common than the English! Well, not any
more...
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Sorcerer
Lord
(UK Version)
1988 P.S.S.
A
notorious for its difficulty Middle-Earth-type
strategy game, whose German version is very common.
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Pirates!
1987 Microprose
Not
so much a rare game, but the amount of its faulty
versions over the net is enormous! This version
has no disk-changing problems. If played in CCS64
use 'normal' load or the game will crash on the
loading screen. Turning on '1541 status' from
CCS64's 'special' menu eases the long load wait
by giving you something to watch! Changing the
emulator's speed to 500% during load (ALT+F3)
helps also. The 3rd disk included is the savedisk.
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The
Forest of Doom
1984 Puffin Books
Little
known, this is one of the best multiple-choice
adventures on the C64 (if not the best!). It contains
the whole text of the (sadly now out-of-print)
Puffin Game Book that bears the same name, including
graphic representations of all enemies encountered!
The dvarven items that must be collected in order
to win the game have been placed in alternative
locations, however, so walkthroughs of the book
do not apply here. This
version contains the file "BLOCK1",
missing from all other online versions which go
into an endless loading loop when you finish the
first game section.
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Crack
of Doom
1989 Beam Software
An ultra-rare gem, this is the 4th Tolkin game,
after The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings
and Shadows of Mordor. This game was distributed
only in Australia and the US, after the demise
of Melbourne House, and remained very little
known. In fact, most C64 users don't even know
a C64 version exists!
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The
Inheritance
(UK Version)
1986 Infogrames
This game can be easily found in its Dutch (De
Erfenis) and German (Die Erbschadt)
versions, but this English version is really rare.
We seem to have trouble with most Infogrames'
games, so pls contact
us if you own any original C64 Infogrames
game.
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Decision
in the Desert
1985 Microprose
This strategy game's non-working version is extremely
widespread over the net. Unfortunately, it does
not contain a lot of needed hidden sectors and cannot
be repaired in any way. Well, it now does not need
to be repaired as we present here an 100% version,
complete with codes typed by yours truly...
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Lunari
1988 Reaktor/Ariolasoft
A shoot-em-up (for a change) which was requested
in our forum.
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Panzer
Strike
1987 S.S.I.
A strategy game requested in our forum. Consists
of four disks, three of which are program disks
(West, East, & Africa). The fourth contains
scenarios, including a tutorial.
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Buck
Rogers - Countdown to Doomsday
1990 S.S.I.
This is the 6-sided original version of the game.
The one circulating is a 3-sided version that
requires on average, say, 5 disk changes a minute
when material is loaded. I don't know what the
crackers were thinking when they were 'shortening'
it, but they created a practically unplayable
version... (if you have the 3-sided version, just
try to watch the demo to see what I mean!)
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Dungeon
Masters Assistant - Volume II: Characters &
Treasures
1989 S.S.I.
If you are a Dungeon Master in the famous AD&D
games you are supposed to find this very useful.
However, I don't know if the new stuff out there
makes the data in this 1989 offering outdated...
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Gradius
1986 Konami
The US version of Nemesis, from the personal
collection of our J2001C. NTSC only, so watch
out.
So...
Who can pal-fix it? :)
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Dragonworld
1984 Trillium (later Telarium)
This
version contains a 5th disk with arcade sequences.
Many thanks to Jeremy [mjKapp] for sharing
this rare gem with the whole C64 community.
Anybody
aware of another Trillium/Tellarium adventure's
version containing arcade sequences?
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The
Amazing Spiderman (Disk Version)
1990 ODE/Paragon
Contains
an option screen and a different starting position
than the commonly-circulating tape version. Also
detects if your machine is PAL or NTSC...
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Attack
of the Atlanteans
1983 General Masters Corp.
Wrestled
over e-bay by our own Matt Larsen with a huuuge
bid, this quality game is now available for download
(and look at the size of that gamefile! :)
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