Commodore 64

Roche

I loved my C-64 /128. Hundereds of games for a fiver. Yeh, most times they didn't work when you bought them but that was half the fun. Postman Pat and Platoon were the best games ever!! Amstrad and Spectrum pail in comparison!

dlofnep

I used to like playing soccer outside while you wait for an hour for the tape to load and then to come back in to find out tis bolloxed.

Cj's elephant antics, Dizzy, Terminator 2 on catridge!

Owen

dlofnep wrote:

Cj's elephant antics

If you typed in 'hairyarseholes' at the start of CJ's Elephant Antics, you got infinite everything. My personal favourites were Hawkeye, Creatures 1&2, Flimbo's Quest, Armalyte, Last Ninja Series, and Mayhem in Monsterland.

Ruu_Old

I had the T2 cartridge as well, and some pool game that was brilliant. The tape deck ended up getting stuck on me.

dlofnep

Ah Flimbo's Quest.. I remember that too!

I think the T2 cartridge was the only one I had.

crosstownk

My mate used to have a 64 - we spent ages playing Ghosts & Goblins and other cool games. I ended up buying an Atari 1040ST for it's MIDI abilities and CuBase. But I do think that the C64 had better games.

Wishbone Ash

Combat Lynx is the only game I can remember!

Kimbot

Midnight Resistance.... dam that was an animal game.

The Circus one on the cartridge was good aswell.

What was the name of the secret agent game that was on it?

maraton_runner

dlofnep wrote:

Ah Flimbo's Quest.. I remember that too!

I think the T2 cartridge was the only one I had.

Ah Good old Flimbo. I nearly feel like jumping up in the attic, bringing it down to the sitting room and setting it up....

Anyone remember that football game I think it could have been on the same catridge. Graphics were terrible!!

Vmaxer

I remember losing a whole Summer Holidays playing The Last Ninja, there was one particular part that was impossible where You had to jump across a swamp with logs floating on it, if You failed after 3 attempts it was back to the start..
Here goes another few Hours

MagnumForce

jonny24ie wrote:

Midnight Resistance.... dam that was an animal game.

The Circus one on the cartridge was good aswell.

What was the name of the secret agent game that was on it?

Midnight Resistance was the business!!!

I broke out the oul Commodore 64 this week (we sold ours years and years ago to buy a 286 but i bought one a few years ago from a kid who couldnt play it anymore cos he went blind!), and someone brought over Pogs, we had a retro week!!! if was fantastic, the loading music for the games made by Ocean was the best!! (me and a friend incorperated the Rambo II Commodore 64 theme music into a song we performed at his school a few years ago!)

On some games, when you died and it said "Please rewind tape to beginning and press [whatever]", if you didnt rewind and just pressed the button it would just go to the next level! Analogue cheating! fúcking brilliant!!!

DeadSkin

jonny24ie wrote:

Midnight Resistance.... dam that was an animal game.

Used to spend days playing that, was class, oh the memories.
"Pick a weapon......3-way.......nitro"
Check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4HMn-RZBjg

Anyone remember the game Silkworm, you controlled a helicopter shootin' up baddies?

trout

Silkworm was a really good shoot-em-up, as was Sidearms.

My all time favourite was Uridium ... excellent game

dabbler2004

Flimbo's Quest,now that brings back memories, think I completed that about 15 times in a row non stop! Silkworm was quite good especially getting my brother to control bombs? maybe. I completed Terminator 2 on cartridge and tape and the end screen was slightly different on both; one referred to the T-101 and the other the T-800. Enjoyed most Codemasters games but one or two of them were impossible, Robin Hood especially.

Doctor DooM

dabbler2004 wrote:

Flimbo's Quest,now that brings back memories, think I completed that about 15 times in a row non stop! Silkworm was quite good especially getting my brother to control bombs? maybe. I completed Terminator 2 on cartridge and tape and the end screen was slightly different on both; one referred to the T-101 and the other the T-800. Enjoyed most Codemasters games but one or two of them were impossible, Robin Hood especially.

I remember reading somewhere that if a developer was pushed for time on c64 games they would just throw in parts that were impossible to pass rather than working on endings and later levels!

Ruu_Old

Think I might be looking for one on eBay. :eek: Maybe after the Atari 2600, I'm bidding on.

Link

Owen

Was anyone else in the C64 Demoscene? I used to have a 300 baud modem, and downloaded Demos from the likes of Crest, Triad, Fairlight. Demo's kicked ass. I was part of a demo group here in Cork called Ozone, and while I didn't code, I did do hand-drawings of Logos, a few scrolly texts, and story-boards for animations.

conky_05

remebr 'rick dangerous' ? was a fun little indiana jones spin-off, great little patform game !!!

Goolay

http://c64s.com/toplist/more/

qwertyface

My favourite game on the C64 was Mad Nurse...You were a nurse in a baby ward and had to stop the babies from jumping down the lift shafts and put them back in their cots...horrible game really now that I think about it. Also loved Dizzy Down the Rapids, and various other "Dizzy" games... ooh memories...

http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D78

DeadSkin

Dublin579 wrote:

http://c64s.com/toplist/more/

I see Paperboy on that list, f*ckin' hated that game, didn't remember it 'til I saw it on the list.

2Poc

conky_05 wrote:

remebr 'rick dangerous' ? was a fun little indiana jones spin-off, great little patform game !!!

I remember that - it was so hard it used to drive me mental..

I had a copy of 'Gianna Sisters' which was pretty much the same as Mario brothers.

Also liked Barbarian & Ghosts and Goblins and Flimbo's quest.
We only had a black & white tv though so it made playing some games hard

I bought 'Summer camp' and 'Tourican 2' out of my confirmation money.
Some bugger borrowed/robbed them on me shortly afterwards. :mad:

Remember there was some kind of cartridge you could get for copying games - can't remember what it was called - it was red & I think it was called something to do with 'freeze'?

Reku

Remember how some games used to take so long to load that they'd "entertain" you with packman while it loaded.

The only game I played that I can remember the name of is "Battle Valley" I believe.

s_carnage

I'd a C64 years ago and was after upgrading for a newer model (megadrive or something!!) and I lent it to one of my friends. It totally went out of my head till about 2 years ago I was coming out of work and there was a box left beside my car with ....... my C64 in it and all my games!!!!

Can't remember who I lent it to but went home that night and set it all up and it was working perfectly!!!

Owen

2Poc wrote:

Remember there was some kind of cartridge you could get for copying games - can't remember what it was called - it was red & I think it was called something to do with 'freeze'?

The Datel Action Replay II cartridge. It had a turbo loader for loading from CDs very quickly, it programmed the F keys to have the usual dir and load "*", 8,1 and load "$",8,1 commands, it allowed you to turn off sprite collision detection, enter peek and poke codes, and allowed you to save the entire active memory to disk to save a game that didn't have save game functions. It was also pretty handy for anyone who wanted to code 6502 Machine Code.

On top of that, it had a reset button. Now if you were really crafty, you already knew by reading the C64 manual that most of the ports on the rear, the Parallel Port, the Tape Port, the Serial Port, and the Cartridge Port all had a reset and ground pin, and if you shorted these two with a paperclip, you could reset the C64 to the ready screen, with all your game still intact, enter your pokes, and then do a sys 4096 (Or whatever the address was), and re-enter your game with your cheats enabled. Simple happy days of computing!

Owen

DeadSkin wrote:

I see Paperboy on that list, f*ckin' hated that game, didn't remember it 'til I saw it on the list.

Ah yes, Paperboy, and the incredibly useless Paperboy II, both with horrible diagonal scrolling.

noclee

Are yes the commodore 64, used have a commodore 128 and had to jump back to the C64 by typing "go 64". The peeks and pokes were also good fun. The Turbo loader for all the games also good. With like 100 games on 1 cassette. Also was in the C-64 demo (the dayz of Zap-64) and then the Amiga scene (Cork) then the days of 14.4K - 28.8K BBS Boondox Holland Tristar. With all the demo's from the group scene from 4k - 64k demos. Some of my favorite C64 games Hawkeye, Delta , Katakis (R-type clone better) and also Last Ninja and Savage. Tunes chip music :- Fairlight / Bonic commando (used in the Ariston add) Spellbound / Hawkeye and anything else via Rob Hubbard. Ultramarine.

Holmer

jonny24ie wrote: »

Midnight Resistance.... dam that was an animal game.

The Circus one on the cartridge was good aswell.

What was the name of the secret agent game that was on it?

Midnight Resistance... the business!
The circus one i think you mean was fiendish freddy's big top of fun. The secret agent one was sly spy, another classic. I loved Turrican and Dragon Ninja, and the classic Flimbo's Quest of course

dobsdave

I remember buying the magazines that were on the go, that previewed games etc and also had a game that you typed in yourself.
Pages and pages of code, took at least 3 or 4 hours to type it

And the f**ker would never work!:D

Holmer

the fu**er would never work...
story of the C64's life!
Does anyone remember Operation Wolf, must have been one of the first ever first person shooters (though it scrolled sideways) It was different to other games cos it played music while it loaded. Cabal was similar, though it was in third person. I also had a Famous Five role playing game! Was free on one of those tapes with Commodore Format magazine

Archeron

Did every commodore owner then move onto an amiga of some sort? As a Spectrum 128 man who then, like most spectrum 128 people, moved onto the atari 1040ST, it seemed like you chose your side of the fence early then and stuck with it.

BTW, BOOOOO COMMODORE 64, BOOOOOO AMIGA. Ha, havent said that for about 18 years :D:D

Dun laoire

Remember Gangster town? You use the gun! Man that was so good. The aiming was all over the gaff but the enjoyment was unreal. Can anybody remember the name of the C64 pack? That game and gun was part of it and if memory serves me correctly that weird game toolbox was part of it too. I'd love to use the loading screen as an avatar gif.

Holmer

Dun laoire wrote: »

Remember Gangster town? You use the gun! Man that was so good. The aiming was all over the gaff but the enjoyment was unreal. Can anybody remember the name of the C64 pack? That game and gun was part of it and if memory serves me correctly that weird game toolbox was part of it too. I'd love to use the loading screen as an avatar gif.

Ah one of those rich kids who had a light gun! I never met one of our type before! No I've never heard of Gangster though. Remember Chase HQ? I had it on cartridge, I think it was the only cartridge I ever bought. They came in those huge boxes for some reason

Owen

Speaking of C64 Magazines, anyone every get published? I had letters to Lloyd Mangram published, along with a walkthrough I did for Last Ninja 2.

The best games though were Creatures 1&2, Mayhem in Monsterland, Hawkeye, Armalyte ... all good fun. I remember one game called Project Stealth Fighter from Microprose. A flight sim, which came with a 3 inch book explaining all the technical systems and flight physics theory behind the Sr-71 Blackbird stealth plane. Mad stuff, they wouldn't even dream of it now.

robo

Oh I loved my C64...I think it is in the attic in my mums still.
But I downloaded an emmulator a while back and you could play old games...it was great, lost it when my laptop went crazy.

My fave games were Split Personality -
Also loved Bubble Bobble and Paperboy.
Oh and there was another one that my cousins owned about a beach buggy race thing!

But the best was playing Trivial Pursuit with a gang and after about 100 games I knew the answers to most of the questions...it was great fun...ONCE IT LOADED PROPERLY! :mad:

Did anyone ever tape friends games? It didn't work very often - put a blank tape into a double deck stereo and the game in and press record, but turn down the sound!!!

WindSock

Jet set willy, Spychaser and Bombjack were games I remember fondly.

Dun laoire

Holmer wrote: »

Ah one of those rich kids who had a light gun! I never met one of our type before! No I've never heard of Gangster though. Remember Chase HQ? I had it on cartridge, I think it was the only cartridge I ever bought. They came in those huge boxes for some reason

HA!! Rich kid??? Thanks for the laugh. I got it second hand about 5 years after it came out. My old fella bought it off his mate in the pub on xmas eve when he realised he'd nothing for his kids.

Holmer

robo wrote: »

Oh I loved my C64...I think it is in the attic in my mums still.
But I downloaded an emmulator a while back and you could play old games...it was great, lost it when my laptop went crazy.

My fave games were Split Personality -
Also loved Bubble Bobble and Paperboy.
Oh and there was another one that my cousins owned about a beach buggy race thing!

But the best was playing Trivial Pursuit with a gang and after about 100 games I knew the answers to most of the questions...it was great fun...ONCE IT LOADED PROPERLY! :mad:

Did anyone ever tape friends games? It didn't work very often - put a blank tape into a double deck stereo and the game in and press record, but turn down the sound!!!

Yeah, I couldn't believe it when I found out about that. It WAS very noisy though alright. Most of my teenage music collection came about the same way...

120_Minutes

Archeron wrote: »

Did every commodore owner then move onto an amiga of some sort? As a Spectrum 128 man who then, like most spectrum 128 people, moved onto the atari 1040ST, it seemed like you chose your side of the fence early then and stuck with it.

BTW, BOOOOO COMMODORE 64, BOOOOOO AMIGA. Ha, havent said that for about 18 years :D:D

your kind were my enemy as a child. everyone knows the 64/amiga was superior to the spectrum/st

but both camps always slagged the poor saps who bought amstrads!

Amiga memories:

TVS Basketball
Rocket Ranger
Shadow of the beast
Sensible Soccer
Back to the future 2
Batman

composing music using protracker and octamed (with a whopping 1mb of ram for samples and my technosound turbo sampler!)

I miss my amiga....anyone know where i kind find a workbench screengrab to use as a desktop?

Dr_Darkness

Ah I remember some of those games...

Loved Flimbos Quest, Dizzy and Mad Nurse...
Anyone remember Fiendish Freddy, Nightmare on Elm Street and Tiger Road?..I remember losing many hours trying to complete that one!

Garthicus

Ahh Flimbos Quest, it brings a tear to my eye!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPbuL8pTp1w

Oh and here are 100 commodore games in ten mins, how many do you recognise?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY2gK1MPgh8

ICN

The Last Ninja (s) was the best game ever.. Wish I still had the C64.:(:(:(:(

sweetie

They are as difficult to get as wiis this christmas I loved the turrican games, creatures, mayhem, dizzy, myth, ghouls and ghost (and goblins) midnight resistance (first game I got, came with the machine) speedball 2, gods, emlyn hughes and microprose soccer and new zealand story. Got an action replay and the disk drive really cheap and tons of games on it like spindizzy and Elite. Gosh, those were the days. Ned, Llyod Mangram was deadly, well done! I heard that they started selling well in russia after they went out of fashion over here, dunno if it's true though.

how much is a working c64 with tons of games, cartridge and disc drive worth in todays money?

lazygit

i loved my C64, i still have it along with a bunch of cart and tape games.. i reacently went into the marked looking for a new gaming PC and for the laugh i bought a commodore GX

http://www.commodoregaming.com/pcshop/Game+PC/Commodore+gx.aspx

its a slight bit more powerful than a C64

it comes with a C64 emulator with 50 games, including my fav Flimbos quest!!
i have to say it was kinda wierd playing flimbos quest on a 22" TFT, with a quadcore processor and watching the flashy loading screen!!! ahh memories!

Owen

sweetie wrote: »

how much is a working c64 with tons of games, cartridge and disc drive worth in todays money?

Christ I don't know, but I'd be interested in it Sweetie if you're selling!

Thomas_S_Hunterson

sweetie wrote: »

how much is a working c64 with tons of games, cartridge and disc drive worth in todays money?

only about 6/7 euro....i'll give you a tenner for it though;):D

Holmer

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Owen

I wasn't allowed to plug my C64 or my Vic20 into the family TV in case it blew up. Even though I was 9, I knew damn well it wouldn't, but because some old eejit of a relative told my Mother that it would, I was consigned to a 10 inch B&W TV from a second hand shop. Anyone else have this experience?

Hotblack Desiato

Yeah (tho not with a C64) all because of the scare stories.

I believe some eejits left old Atari consoles, or maybe even the old crappy yokes with analogue joysticks and built-in ping-pong type games, plugged into the TV for hours on end showing the same thing and it burned into the screen. Very unlikely to happen with a computer playing different games, not the same one all the time, and with the brightness set to a reasonable level.

Plasma TVs are easy to burn-in accidentally though :eek: we got one in work a couple of years ago to display the LAN status and it was wrecked in a few months from showing the same thing. You used to be able to see a plasma on RTE news with "RTE NEWS" burned into it