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Commodore 64

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  • 19-11-2016 11:14pm
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    Olishi4
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    Did you have one of these?

    They took ages to load. My brother had this soccer game.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EZt5q2BASR0

    I remember something where I was wrecking his head to play two player but he never wanted to play with me because I just kept either running in circles or off the pitch! :)

    My dad use to love this golf one...

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEk4iIw4ds


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    vicwatson
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    Feckin top class computer (at the time)


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    Skommando
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    Only rich knobs that new nothing about computers had them. The real computer heads had sinclairs.


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    Barry Badrinath
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    Stick in Flimbos Quest, wait for the coloured stripey screen to feck off and happy days!

    Notable mention to T2, blow the cartridge (hey hey) which I could never get out of the nut house.


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    Mr. FoggPatches
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    I remember being g told that you could record games to blank cassettes. Never worked for me though
    Ikari warriors was the best game ever.


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    Zaph
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    Olishi4 wrote: »
    Did you have one of these?

    They took ages to load. My brother had this soccer game.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EZt5q2BASR0

    I remember something where I was wrecking his head to play two player but he never wanted to play with me because I just kept either running in circles or off the pitch! :)

    My dad use to love this golf one...

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEk4iIw4ds

    Had both those games. I was pretty crap at International Soccer, but I played Leaderboard Golf for hours and hours. I was a lot better at it than the soccer game. I think the C64 is still in my parents' garage somewhere.


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    AllGunsBlazing
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    Skommando wrote: »
    Only rich knobs that new nothing about computers had them. The real computer heads had sinclairs.

    And how long did the keyboard last on that garden shed-made piece of shi_t?:D


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    Skommando
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    AllGunsBlazing wrote: »
    And how long did the keyboard last on that garden shed-made piece of shi_t?:D

    Long enough to learn far more about computing ;)


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    Mr. FoggPatches
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    Skommando wrote: »
    Long enough to learn far more about computing ;)

    Which is better, ps4 or Xbox one?


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    B.A._Baracus
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    Had one myself as a kid. Was pretty good. I only found out recently that piracy was insane back in the day.


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    Ludo
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    Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »
    I remember being g told that you could record games to blank cassettes. Never worked for me though
    Ikari warriors was the best game ever.

    Dual tape deck recorded them fine. They were a bit finicky but usually worked. Always had to keep a tape handy to shove under the cassette tape cable to keep it working on mine due to loose connection.


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    Senna
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    I think ours is still in my mum's attic, should really take it down some day.
    There was one game, think it was called "Hunchback", each screen was a different obstacle, jumping from pillar to pillar, swinging over a hole, etc. Loved that game, I did look for it on an emulator a few years ago but couldn't find it.


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    Mr. FoggPatches
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    Ludo wrote: »
    Dual tape deck recorded them fine. They were a bit finicky but usually worked. Always had to keep a tape handy to shove under the cassette tape cable to keep it working on mine due to loose connection.

    I only tried it a few tines and when it did t work, I decided it was an urban myth.
    No Google in those days :(
    Decided to learn basic instead of playing games then.


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    Grayson
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    Atari Jaguar?


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    TinCool
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    You can emulate pretty much 100% a C64 on a PC these days. https://sourceforge.net/projects/vice-emu/

    I still fire it up to play some of my old favs like Impossible Mission every once and a while


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    buried
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    Soundtrack for Last Ninja 2 is still f**king class

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    AllGunsBlazing
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    There was a few of us in our national school with C64's and we had quite the little piracy ring going for a bit. The games would eventually corrupt and become unloadable but tapes were dirt cheap so you just banged out another copy.


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    theteal
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    Did anybody successfully program the bouncy ball? I just could not get it.....so I went back to Flimbo


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    B.A._Baracus
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    Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »
    I only tried it a few tines and when it did t work, I decided it was an urban myth.
    No Google in those days :(
    Decided to learn basic instead of playing games then.

    I remember using a double tape deck radio to copy a game once. Thinking it would work. It didn't :pac:


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    TinCool
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    Senna wrote: »
    I think ours is still in my mum's attic, should really take it down some day.
    There was one game, think it was called "Hunchback", each screen was a different obstacle, jumping from pillar to pillar, swinging over a hole, etc. Loved that game, I did look for it on an emulator a few years ago but couldn't find it.

    One of the first games I played on the C64. That and Beach Head


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    soap1978
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    Skommando wrote: »
    Only rich knobs that new nothing about computers had them. The real computer heads had sinclairs.
    did the poor people have amstrads 464


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    Ludo
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    buried wrote: »
    Soundtrack for Last Ninja 2 is still f**king class

    Way of the exploding fist is the one I remember...class sound effects.


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    Mr. FoggPatches
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    buried wrote: »
    Soundtrack for Last Ninja 2 is still f**king class

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NeTZ3AHfpY


    Nostalgia overload


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    brevity
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    I remember playing that Terminator 2 game on it.

    Frustrating game tbf


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    B.A._Baracus
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    Anyone else think Freddys fiendish circus game was really really dark and weird looking?


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    Dr Turk Turkelton
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    soap1978 wrote: »
    did the poor people have amstrads 464

    I had a 6128 does that make me middle class?


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    AllGunsBlazing
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    Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »
    I had a 6128 does that make me middle class?

    Not unless you had a BBC Micro lying around as well. That was the real middle class computer of choice.


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    Olishi4
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    The only other thing I can remember was a really basic tennis game. I think it was on the computer itself and not a tape? I loved that.


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    buried
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    Would love an actual hi-def copy of the Last Ninja 2 soundtrack. Its funny, this London based electronic musician released this album this year. You just know this guy played and loved Last Ninja 2. Could well still have a commodore 64 and used the soundboard to make some parts of his tunes

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    mzungu
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    These were always great for a laugh back in the day:

    California Games:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2S5CSc97M


    Platoon:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBz8GsKIu-E


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    Fiery mutant
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    Platoon was awesome, but my fav by a mile was Outrun Europa, brilliant for its day.

    We should defend our way of life to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed, so that any adversary will never make such an attempt in the future.



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