Commodore 64

fade2black

World of Wonder currently have a C64 joystick that allows you to play 30 C64 games by simply plugging it into your TV.

Great nostalgia, but unfortunately none of the old favourites are there and ultimately all the games are pretty shit. You might recognise the likes of Pit Stop and Summer Games but there's no Dizzy, out run, ghost and goblins, wonder boy etc...

However, for €10, you can't really go wrong.

Trode

fade2black wrote:

World of Wonder currently have a C64 joystick that allows you to play 30 C64 games by simply plugging it into your TV.

Great nostalgia, but unfortunately none of the old favourites are there and ultimately all the games are pretty shit. You might recognise the likes of Pit Stop and Summer Games but there's no Dizzy, out run, ghost and goblins, wonder boy etc...

However, for €10, you can't really go wrong.

Yeah, I have that, it's pretty obvious the range of games was restricted by licensing issues, as they're all from 1 or 2 publishers.
But c'mon, Paradroid, Nebulus, Impossible Mission(1&2), Uridium, Cyberdyne Warrior and Speedball are by no means ****. Any 3 of those is worth the price of admission alone, plus there's some fun to be had from the rest, like California Games, Firelord, Pitstop and Ranarama.

Filan

I bought the same for 30Euro early last year and returned it two days later...for 10 Euro maybe , but 30 plus the purchase of batteries it was awful I thought...

Shigsy

I bought a CD called "C64 Classix" or something along those lines a good few years ago in HMV i think, has over 3000 C64 games on it, along with a load of C64 game screenshots and music. Was only €10 too I always questioned the legality of it considering the games were all in .c64 rom format and it had 3 or 4 different emulators on it..

r3nu4l

I have this joystick and must say I really like it. There were some games on it I'd forgotten all about Okay, I would have preferred The Last Ninja II and Platoon amongst others but not a bad selection overall, some very weak titles and some good ones thrown in.

I also use an emulator and roms on my PC so I can pretty much play any game I want

LoGiE

What games of note does it have? If it had any of the last Ninja games it would be worth the money without question. I'd love to play it again on a television:)

r3nu4l

That's the thing, there's none of the genuine classics on it but for pure Retro appeal it has California games, Firelord and Uridium, games that I passed many hours playing.

No Micropose Soccer, no, last ninja, great escape, platoon, Ghosts n' Goblins. Not a bad effort overall.

I would like to see a joystick that has a SD card port (or similar) and then see cards with multi-packs of games on them.

Of course, if that did happen you would be guarenteed that if there were 10 games on the pack, three would be stonkers, two very good and five absolutely rubbish

EDIT: tbh, I haven't picked up the stick in about three months (I've been hosue-hunting and buying) so I can't remember the full list. I do know that there are some of the games I've only played once!

Trode

LoGiE wrote:

What games of note does it have? If it had any of the last Ninja games it would be worth the money without question. I'd love to play it again on a television:)

Here's the full list for the european/UK version. I've listed a few of my personal highlights further up the thread, but no Last Ninja. I'd say it's worth getting for 10-15 euro, but for me at least a big part of that was the joystick itself

LoGiE

Ok not the best selection of games but then again it does focus solely on the 1980's. Given a lot of the games were Epyx releases they could have at least included chips Challenge!:)
I agree Trode the Joystick is a huge part of the appeal. Does anyone remember the repair shop a couple of doors down from the old Peats that repaired them? (Along with just about any Comps of the time) I must have broken at least four at the hight of my c64/Amiga years.

sioda

I think a joystick feauring Hit Squad games would be great New Zealand Story Bubble Bobble and R-Type

r3nu4l

sioda wrote:

I think a joystick feauring Hit Squad games would be great New Zealand Story Bubble Bobble and R-Type

Yes, that would be cool

Here's a link to a gallery of the C64DTV joystick...in it's packaging and then taken apart piece by piece and modded to interface with a C64. Very interesting

Firewalkwithme

Weren't The Hit Squad games the budget re-releases of Ocean games? An Ocean collection could be great as would a Codemasters collection so long as it included my personal favorite Slicks of course!

It would also be nice to have a collection of some of the later games such as Mayhem in Monsterland, Turrican I and II and perhaps the Creatures games.