Cancelled games?

[Einar Saukas]

There's a list of cancelled ZX Spectrum games in Wikipedia here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... trum_games

Besides all titles we already know, there are 3 games in this list that I never saw mentioned anywhere else:

Shufflepuck Café
Spot: The Video Game
Wasteland

Are you aware of a magazine reference to any of these games indicating they were going to be released for the Spectrum?

[Alessandro]

The Games That Time Forgot on the TZX Vault lists a Durell unfinished game named Spot Board which looks just like the one you are looking for.

No idea about the other two, though. Wasteland in particular, the precursor to Fallout, was most probably never designed with the Spectrum as a target platform in the first place, just like many other similar games of that era.

P.S. The Wikipedia entry says that Spot (Board) was eventually to be released by Virgin Mastertronic as Infection, but it does not mention either the Spectrum version, available in the archive (https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/ent ... /Infection), or the Durell game.

[Einar Saukas]

Good point! I think the wikipedia article clearly refers to Infection.