Games That Weren't 64

Nothing yet.

The Great Space Race was to be a huge game across many platforms, especially after the success of Valhalla by Legend.

The game was advertised quite heavily with large black space backgrounds with text "The Great Space Race" in large white lettering. For ages people waited for the game, and eventually it was released on the ZX Spectrum and people were very disappointed overall. It wasn't quite the mega game that people were expecting, and people felt very let down.

Legend tried to rectify things later with some other games which were pretty good - but sadly the damage was done and eventually they faded away.

According to Home Computer Weekly, The Great Space Race was also to be released on the Commodore 64 - but as you can probably tell, this didn't quite happen for reasons unknown. It is possible that the C64 version was running late after the Spectrum version, they saw the failure of the game on that platform and decided to scrap the C64 version. Or did it even get started at all??

We have a strange feeling that the C64 version may have been underway by Trevor Inns, who had contributed towards the C64 version of Valhalla and was prolific at doing Spectrum conversions to the C64 in the early 80's. Was he behind the game?

More info needed, so dig out your magazines and see if you can find any C64 references!

Frank.