Storm Force

1990 Clockwize Platform: Amstrad CPC (possibly ZX Spectrum too) Next into the Games That Weren’t archives is an Amstrad CPC game that never was, called Storm Force. The game was a RNLI simulation which had graphics created by Lee Burns and code by Jeremy Fowler. Unfortunately, it seems that only a few test routines were completed and just some graphic screens were produced which you can see here. These were recovered thanks to Dean Hickingbottom from a CPC disk. There was some code, but it was just quick routines for displaying the map or panel on the screen. At somepoint we may be able to add the source code for people to have a poke around. Dean did find a game plan for the game on one of the disks, which describes a little about how the game was to play and some of the different sections. Rather than simply steering a lifeboat around the sea, players would initially take on the role of a coastguard operator. From the main control panel you would monitor incoming weather reports via…