Rainbird - Lost titles
The following are titles that were in development at Rainbird but were never finished or published. As with the published titles list, what follows might not be comprehensive. The old grey cells aren't what they used to be! ;-)
Acrobat - The (Mike Lewis)
The Acrobat was a 16-bit enhancement on the original comics-based adventure
system that Simon Price and Mike Lewis had created for Red Hawk and Kwah!
(both published by Melbourne House)...
Broadsword (Electronic Pencil Company)
Broadsword was a third-person Role Playing Game (RPG) with a party of characters
who could be pre-programmed to run off and perform tasks on their own...
City States (Ricardo Pinto)
City States was a wargame simulation (think Civilization rather than UMS) and was being coded by former Torus and Telecomsoft employee, Ricardo Pinto. It was being developed originally for the Apple Mac but would have been ported to the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and IBM PC...
Dick Special - The Search for Spook (Sandy White)
Dick Special was in development on the Commodore Amiga. The development versions
of the game were running in the Amiga's hold-and-modify (HAM) mode...
E.P.T. (Andy Beveridge, Adrian Stephens, Ricardo Pinto)
E.P.T. was an infamous solid 3D space game that was in development for a year or so between 1987-1988. The acronym (a working title) stood for...
Lasers and Labyrinths (Mindware)
Lasers and Labyrinths was a game from Mindware, the same developers who
wrote the 16-bit versions of Tracker. The game was essentially
a sci-fi based Dungeon Master clone...
R.A.I.L. (John Jones-Steele)
R.A.I.L. was the Rainbird Adventure Implementation Language. It
was a text adventure authoring language...