Commodore 64

branie

Anyone here have this computer when they were younger?

old_aussie

Yes, I did and I've still got it. Huge half meg ram and all the accessories.

Oafley Jones

branie wrote: »

Anyone here have this computer when they were younger?

First computer when I was wee lad. It's probably what made me obsessed with technology. I still remember waiting anxiously for Wheeling Wally to load, only for it to fail and give up and use a cartridge instead. Some of those games were pretty weird, such as the one where you had to defend teeth against tooth decay.



We'll be seeing another commodore 64 fairly soon...
http://gizmodo.com/5496112/the-return-of-the-commodore-64

Melodeon

Yes indeed, Boulder Dash was a particular favourite, as was carefully typing (in BASIC) and debugging Jeff Minter games from various magazines at the time.

Bloody commodore kids,

Amstrad CPC 464 FTW!

omerin

i had one, used to love playing last ninja. turning and adjusting the screw used to do my head in at times!

x in the city

thing on a spring had me hooked, whatever the hell it was about....

speccy for me tho.

lord lucan

Had one too. My dad bought it with the intention of it being an educational tool but all we wanted to do was play games!:p

Games we had off the top of my head are;

Tooth Invaders
Zaxxon
Pole Position
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Wheeling Wally

Great days!:)

Marty McFly

yeh i had one as a kid loved it used to be mad for paperboy on it and some other monster truck game i had.

lizardfudge

Loved my C64.

Especially the Dizzy games.

A great site for info on C64 games is http://www.lemon64.com/

lord lucan

lizardfudge wrote: »

Loved my C64.

Especially the Dizzy games.

A great site for info on C64 games is http://www.lemon64.com/

Thanks so much for the link,i've been playing Wheelin' Wallie and Hunchback all night! Great stuff!:):)

DeadSkin

lizardfudge wrote: »

Loved my C64.

Especially the Dizzy games.

A great site for info on C64 games is http://www.lemon64.com/

Without that link I wouldn't have fully remembered the names of the 2 coolest games for the Commodore, Midnight Resistance & Silk Worm.

I worked my ass off for a whole summer and paid it off weekly. Longest summer ever.

lizardfudge

There's also one for the Amiga for those of us who upgraded:

http://www.lemonamiga.com/

WindSock

Ah Boulder Dash I remember that. And Jet Set Willy, Spy Hunter, Beach Head (I think) and another about a witch I think was called Elvira Rides Out.

old_aussie

Melodeon wrote: »

Yes indeed, Boulder Dash was a particular favourite, as was carefully typing (in BASIC) and debugging Jeff Minter games from various magazines at the time.

Wasted months of my life playing Boulder Dash.

lizardfudge

Trailblazer was a great one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EXsxd8O7eU

Royal Seahawk

Flimbo's Quest anyone?

MickShamrock

Yes. My first console. Probably still have it somewhere.

sellerbarry

You lucky people. My first was the vic 20. Remember that eh? A year earlier than the 64. My watch had mor ram. Lol

http://oldcomputers.net/vic20.html:D

FunnyStuff

Outrun Europa, brilliant !!!

sellerbarry

remember doing this every week.?

http://www.64apocalypse.com/images/cvg/cvg32.htm

sellerbarry

http://www.64apocalypse.com/images/cvg/cvg32.htm

pawrick

Still have mine at home with the T2 box - I think something is broken though as I gave it to my nephew yrs back for a bit and then it stopped - I forget if it was the C64 itself or the tape loader.

still have about 20 games in perfect condition etc. might drag it out of the press the next time i visit home.

loved New Zealand story (only game I could do well at due the cheat of sticking a paper over the C64 and pressing all the keys together)

Nemesis was also a game I played a lot.


Any one remember GW Basic? (i think that's what it was called) hours typing out lines of code to get a fecking ball to bounce!

lizardfudge

My C64 was the pack that came with the light gun.



It was a bit ****.

lord lucan

We had one of these:


Think it's still up in my parents gaff.

lord lucan

pawrick wrote: »

Any one remember GW Basic? (i think that's what it was called) hours typing out lines of code to get a fecking ball to bounce!

It still gives me nightmares. We thought we were at the cutting edge of computer technology inputting all the code!:D

bonerm

lord lucan wrote: »

We had one of these:


Think it's still up in my parents gaff.

Ah yes! I see it even has autofire lock-button at the base there. Nice. I think we had 2x of them but they were in all black with red triggers.

We got our C64 in Xmas 1985 and I remember being blown away by it like nothing else since (possibly my first time using the internet coming close).

There was a demotape on it that showed off the computers abilities (graphics , sounds, functions etc) and the one thing on it that I thought was great was this demo clip that I guess was meant to be played on a loop in retail stores.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVtOOZPuGM

That Christmas I would just watch this again and again in sheer amazement. Ah, simpler times!

sellerbarry

Here's a few memories.;)

http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schooten/software/Vgrabs.html

Holmer

Flimbo's Quest had such awesome music!
Also loved:
Midnight Resistance
Turrican
Dragonninja
Operation Wolf
Barbarian
Haven't checked that link, but Jeff Minter was the Llamasoft guy, right? He was always in Commodore Format magazine, 'Llamas in space' and all those games. I bought that magazine religiously, with the free tape every month, you'd sometimes (very rarely) get a great game on it.

DeadSkin

lizardfudge wrote: »

My C64 was the pack that came with the light gun.



It was a bit ****.

Ha, I remember shooting pigeons or ducks with that yoke.

I was also hooked on pitstop, grand prix game. The tyres wolud change a lighter shade as they lost grip. You had to do a pitstop and change tyres one by one, great stuff.



Was also a fan of Ghost 'n' Goblins.

BluesBerry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0msxihp1fFQ

abouttobebanned

I loved CJ's elephant antics.

Turbulance hits the plane...

120_Minutes

old_aussie wrote: »

Yes, I did and I've still got it. Huge half meg ram and all the accessories.

thats an amiga.


the c64 had well, 64 k of ram.

bonerm

120_Minutes wrote: »

thats an amiga.


the c64 had well, 64 k of ram.

... with 38k free.

But that should be enough for anyone , as Bill Gates might have said at the time.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

lol, one of my aul mans mates apparantely 'made' games and he used to bring them over on this massive floppy disk
(wtf is a floppy disk)
There was this soccer one where your opponent would run towars you and just stand there, you could kick the ball at him a million times and he wouldnt move then run around him into the goal. Then the crowd cheering was the static sound you used to get off a TV. I spent days playing it all the same

But I had a Terminator 2 cartridge which may still be the best game I have ever played. There was one fight where Arnie was fighting the t-1000 where all you had to do was beat him into a corner and push the joystick topright and hit auto-fire. He would then headbuut him 100 times a minute and batter him. Jesus I loved the commodore...

Holmer

Iker Loud Scrooge wrote: »

lol, one of my aul mans mates apparantely 'made' games and he used to bring them over on this massive floppy disk
(wtf is a floppy disk)
There was this soccer one where your opponent would run towars you and just stand there, you could kick the ball at him a million times and he wouldnt move then run around him into the goal. Then the crowd cheering was the static sound you used to get off a TV. I spent days playing it all the same

But I had a Terminator 2 cartridge which may still be the best game I have ever played. There was one fight where Arnie was fighting the t-1000 where all you had to do was beat him into a corner and push the joystick topright and hit auto-fire. He would then headbuut him 100 times a minute and batter him. Jesus I loved the commodore...

I had the cassette version of the T2 game, which was less fun..."rewind tape to the beginning of side 2and press play" every time you got killed. Lost your momentum a bit, but the flashy colours were great...

anbrutog

[quote=[Deleted User];64985529]Bloody commodore kids,

Amstrad CPC 464 FTW![/QUOTE]

haha, dunno about other places but in my school the rivalry between Amstrad464 & 6128 and Commodore kids was fierce , often leading to violence!

But yeah , think the C64 would have beaten the 464 but defo not the Amstrad 6128.

bently

My First one (sigh) was a Spectrum ZX.........Oh the nostalgia is nearly painful.

CiaranC

sellerbarry wrote: »

Here's a few memories.;)

http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schooten/software/Vgrabs.html

Those arent C64 screens.

I was obessed with Emlyn Hughes International Soccer on this. Awesome game.

Azhrei

Had several C64's and C128's for years, loved them. Used them regularly from 1991 to about 1999 - late, I know! Switched to x86 pc's after that. Bit by bit, I sold everything, even up to three years ago when I found some boxed disc games that sold enough to buy me a nice new tower case

Succumbed to nostalgia in September/October of last year and bought a C128, 1084 monitor and two 1541-II disc drives. It's set up next to two gaming pc's looking completely out of place! Been playing Lemmings on it recently - amazed that they got all one hundred lemmings on the screen, considering the C64's eight sprites on screen limitation - I believe the NES could only display fifteen of them, and the Spectrum something like twenty. Amazing what can be done with 64K of RAM and a processor that runs below 1MHz.



I've ordered a 1541 Ultimate II, so that'll remove the need to transfer everything across via the XM1541 parallel cable, which is slow and unreliable, but I'd still love to own one of those old cartridges with International Soccer, Flimbo's Quest, Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun and Klax. My sisters and I played those games for hours.

dnme

sellerbarry wrote: »

You lucky people. My first was the vic 20. Remember that eh? A year earlier than the 64. My watch had mor ram. Lol

http://oldcomputers.net/vic20.html:D

me too, remember the RF Modulator (the box between vic20 and TV) went a couple of times and had to be replaced. Also remember the first time I managed to get it to successfully read a program off a tape played on an old tape recorder.......joy

bonerm

Azhrei wrote: »

It's like the room that never grew up.

Sigma Force

Not sure if it's been mentioned already but my fave Commodore 64 game was Zak MCcraken I don't think I ever got to complete it but used to love that game.
I wonder will they bring out a new version if they do hopefully they won't change it just update the graphics or mabey not even.

Winter Olympics was another one but didn't like it much, we didn't have many games to choose from though.

Check out this link to an intro. to the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OspGbCi2ve8

There was another game but can't remember the name of it, think it involved robots.

It took sooooo long to load though and made that clicking noise.

Azhrei

bonerm wrote: »

It's like the room that never grew up.

You should meet me, never mind the room.