The Good Old Commodore 64... A True Diamond...

RopeDrink

Oh come on...

If you were born anywhere near the eighties you would have at least heard of it...

Commodore knocked the socks off Spectrum in quite a lot of ways, yet the games on both systems were the most addictive you could find...

Right all you old buffs...

Start posting your C64 classics please...

It's about time I relived a few good old memories

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Kane, Impossible Mission 1&2, Renegade, Jet Set Willy, Phantom Of The Asteroids - That series that involved the knight... It was a sort of RPG... Always had a Wand Of Command in it... Can't remember off hand what they were called in general but I spent hours playing all in the series I had...

Also, try the "Dizzy" collection... Classic's...

I have a box in the attic containing a couple of hundred games, and cartridges... Ah yes, Shadow Of The beast 3 was a scary one...

Come on lads... Get naming!

Bluehair

Head over Heals wahey!!!! Mind you i had a blast from the past with my old speccy+2 last year and though it was fun i have to admit nostalgia definately wears rose tinted glasses....

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Firefox

Ah yes.......those 80's Games. We had a ZX Spectrum back in those days. Their was always a friendly rivalry between C64 people and the Spectrum Folk, not like the cold blooded affairs of today. Usually a game came came out on ALL Formats. Games I remember are the likes of Jet Pac, Elite, Jet Set Willy, and all the Ultimate Games Like Saberwulf and Head over Heels. Classic Stuff.

_CreeD_

Choplifter, Fort Apocalypse, Manic Miner, Blagger, Elite, Boulderdash (All of them), Last Ninja 1 and 2 (Didnt play 3), Driller (First filled 3d graphics in a game, amazing soundtrack), Wizball, Parallax, Renegade, Psycho Pigs UXB (on multi only, crap single player), Pitstop 2.

Ah, what a machine (pats his emulator) and the music is still being remixed today.

Kaidos

Rick Dangerous

RopeDrink

Gah - Forgot the Last Ninja Series...

Last Ninja 2 had some amazing music...

Here's one for you...

International Karate + ... You must have played it

Barbarian was a good one also - The only Commodore game I knew at the time which allowed decapitation of another human... Some of the movie/games where great...

The Great Escape was good, as was Miami Vice, Rambo - First Blood and Platoon... Platoon was **** hard, but very addictive, with viatnamese lads jumping you from fox holes and the trees... Ultra hard...

There are plenty more... Come on lads - Has to be more C64 buff's than that...

Ri-ra

Forbidden Forest... and that soundtrack...

And, for all you Dragon 32 owners, Cuthbert in the Jungle. Why did the Dragon have such a s h i t t y system for colours? Ah, tape...

RasTa

i used to hate loading up tham damm cassette's and have of tham didnt work but the only games i remember playin are flimbo's quest and a terminator 2 game
oh yeh and tha circus game that was on the catridge along with other games

RopeDrink

Ah yeah...

What was it called...

Can't remember, but it invloved knife throwing (Which usually resulted in a screaming woman with a blade projecting from her stomach) high wire climbs, jumping hundred's of feet into a Tub, then a bucket, then a glass... and various other great stuff...

Was a good one, that game...

There was also a game called "Sphere" - And by god you never knew the definition of hard until you played this one...

LOL - I remember the old Spy v Spy classics...

I prefered number two, the "Spy v Spy - Desert Capers" - I believe they are remaking Spy v Spy for another system... Or were at least revamping it...

One game that amazed me was "Jack The Nipper" - I played that game oh so much, but unfortunately, this eventually wore my tape down and it then refused to load...

Another goody is "SilkWorm" (Also on the Amiga) involving a Helicopter and a Jeep taking on a variation of enemy vehicle waves, a massive flying beast called a "Goose" and several different types of big bad military bosses...

Was fantastic with Two Players.

Canaboid

Pyjamarama anyone ?

TinCool

Commodore64, now we're talking. Here's my list in no particular order

Elite
Spy vs. Spy
Beach Head 1 and 2
Summer Games 2
Impossible Mission
China Miner
Staff of Karnath
Entombed
Blackwyche
Bruce Lee
Thrust
Boulderdash 4
Pitstop 2
Barbarian
Falcon Patrol
The Sentinel
Forbidden Forest
Cauldron I and II
Rambo First Blood Part II (class music)
Green Beret
Kokatoni Wilf
Hunchback I
Zaxxon
Tapper

Probably loads of others but I can't remember them.

chernobyl

i can go even better...i had a commodore 16 now thats was da $hit.
i had a mad external floppy drive but main storage was tape (forever crashing).64K or RAM..
many ppl say its virtually the same as the commodore plus4.

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Kix

Harrumph.

Didn't get to play with the C64. I was stuck with a Vic 20! Should I say I was stuck with my mates Vic 20, I didn't have a computer of my own!

The Vic, for those who don't remember it, looked almost identical to the C64, except for the colouring of the case and buttons.It came out maybe a year before it.

It had a staggeringly small 4.5k of RAM, even as kids we used to write BASIC programs which filled the memory. The useable screen area was the now almost unbelieveable 20x22 chars (160x176 pixels) If you produced a PDA these days with such low res you'd never sell it! All this flickering on your big telly screen.

The best games were on cartridge. The cassette tape system caused many hours of heartache. Still, it made pirating games as easy as finding a double tape deck.

Does anyone else remember Soft Aid? After Band Aid there was cassette released with a bunch of games on it. Proceeds in aid of Ethopia. I never did get any of those buggers to load.

That's when there was a games shop in Francis St. in Galway. Now if you can remember that you're at least as old as I am!

Memories!

K

Firefox

Hmmm...let me see.....there was the the Dragon 32, The infamous BBC Micro, the Oric, I remember when it used to make sounds when you typed in PING or ZAP. The Amstrad CPC 464 with that green Screen you could only play on.

MrTimewalk

How I remember sitting a my buddies house who had just got his 64 and running poke commands to get the sprites to move. Awesome

Squire

Midnight Resistance
Bionic Commando
Turrican
Creatures 2
Sly Spy
Outrun Europa

Excellent, excellent games.

OSiriS

Oi don't knock the VIC 20. It was my first machine, and gave me 3 long years of joy before the C64 came out. Back in those days most of my games were cartridge, so no long load times that I suffered increasingly and with surprising patience during the eighties. These days I wonder how I ever had the patience to wait 60-90 mins for some games to load.

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TinCool

90 minutes my **** . The longest load time on the C64 was the original tape version of China Miner. It took 15 minutes to load, I ain't ****ting you. As for the vic20, I had one of those too, still have the first game I got for it. Typically titled Jeff Minter game "Metagalactic llamas battle at the edge of time".

Canaboid

Ah, them were the days.

Shinji

Spotted someone going on about Head over Heels up there... odd little story to tell!

Guy in my clan just started doing some writing for CTW, so I got him a free subscription to the magazine. It was delayed and stuff last week, which confused me since everyone else had got theirs on time... It arrived in his door a couple of days later with a note saying "Sorry, this landed on my doormat along with my own copy! Bit weird that there's two of us working in the games industry on the same street, eh... Regards, Jon Ritman"

I nearly fainted. This means that:
(a) Jon Ritman reads my mag;
(b) there's a chance, however remote, that he might come out for beers with EED in the future sometime.

Now we just need to get Jeff Minter on the beer with us (we did name the clan after the all-enemies-cleared screen in Tempest X after all...) and our lives are complete...

DeadBankClerk

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by RopeDrink:
I prefered number two, the "Spy v Spy - Desert Capers" - I believe they are remaking Spy v Spy for another system... Or were at least revamping it...
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game boy colour (its out)

Rapier-q3

About a month ago I brought the old c64 from its dusty grave in the attic, little did I know the 2 joysticks were ****ed but guess what, my sega megadrive pad worked with most of the game!

I had the most fun with Emlyn and Hughes International soccer (still better than fifa for psx). Midnight resistance, Elite wouldnt load but it was class, Arnie, Platoon, Great Escape, AirBorne Ranger, Tomcat, Ghosts & Goblins (love the nappy y-fronts) Green Beret ARUUUUUUAAHHHHH DEN DEN DEN)YIE AR Kung Fu 1 only, 2 was utter ******, Creatures 1 + 2 , Rambo first blood part 2 last ninjas were deadly hard but the greatest was Turrican 2. btw ever notice how much easier games were on the amstrad or spectrum esp. target renegade barbarian etc?

Da_cOmRaDe_MiKe

WIZBALL!!! NOW THAT WAS A GAME!!!
AND OUTRUN!! WEH HEY! I DOWNLOADED A EMULATOR THEY ROCK.. PLAYING ALL THOSE OLD GAMES BRINGS BACK MEMORIES

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- Da_cOmRaDe_MiKe

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> Man causes all problems. No man, no problems. - Stalin </font>

Kix

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by OSiriS:
Oi don't knock the VIC 20. </font>

Don't get me wrong, I loved that little machine more than life itself. We used to spend 14 hours a day programming and playing on it. His parents used to occasionally throw us out so that we could get some fresh air. That little Vic put me on the road to my current career. I just find it funny looking back now at its almost calculator like spec. But a little star, without question.

K

TinCool

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jeff_Lebowski:
Can anyone point me in the direction of a good C64 emulator - I want to spend my evening reliving past glories and falling behind on work. And yes, I am too lazy to use a search engine.

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http://www.lemon64.com/

for all your C64 emulation needs.

TinCool

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jeff_Lebowski:
Anyone remember Daley Thompson's Decathalon? All you had to do to win was open up the joystick and keep hitting the buttons inside instead of wobbling the joystick back and forward continously and banjaxing it.</font>

Do I remember Daly Thompson's Decathlon. Anyone remember the crappy Commodore joystick you got free with the Vic20 ? Well, after playing Daly's for weeks, one 10,000 metres joystick waggling was just too much for this little joystick. The stick snapped. But I opened it up and took out the circuit board and used the pads on that
I also went through 2 Cheetah's and 1 Quickshot II Joystick because of that game.

Manach

Never played the C64 - a user of the Amstrad 464 (the one with the built in tape-deck/monitor).
Games played
- Sabre Wulf
- Beach Head
- Elite
and many others for a totally wasted but enjoyable youth.

Red Moose

Jeez you people are living in the PAST. Get a real computer like a SAM Coupe.

K!LL!@N

I still have my C64 out in the room.
The damn datasette doesn't work anymore though.
Did any of you have C64 cartridges?
I thought they were so amazing when they came out.
Navy SEAL's was brilliant!
I also had Pang and some others.
I wonder if my cousin still has them, i might get them back from him.

Miguel_Sanchez

oh wow! The C64! Those games!!! I loved them all.

Elite - great space adventure - never got anywhere near finishing it though
The Pawn - great RPG
Spy Hunter - Cars, the Peter Gunn theme, what more could you want?
Loderunner - Stickmen and ladders
Way of the Exploding Fist - Great kung-fu game
Barbarian - I remember lopping off heads, WUHOO!
Raid over Moscow - spaceships, snipers, jets, robots, commies. brilliant
Gilligan's Gold - like a cheap Indiana Jones
Manic Miner - i was **** at this game but it was great
Also there was some game I used to play about computer hackers, where you had to steal money from banks and search for clues on BBS and I could never get past the airport cause when the game was corrupted and it would crash. I loved it though. Anyone remember the name?

Also we had a basketball game where you couldn't tell which way the players were facing and so you ended up throwing the ball the wrong way all the time. ****e. Absolute ****e.

Then there was a great football manager game - can't remember the name.

Anyone remember Daley Thompson's Decathalon? All you had to do to win was open up the joystick and keep hitting the buttons inside instead of wobbling the joystick back and forward continously and banjaxing it.

hmmm other games....

Blue Max,
Choplifter,
Falcon Patrol,
Defender,
Return to Eden,
Zelda.
Impossible Mission - "Stay a while... STAY FOREVER!"
Boulderdash
Green Beret
Dig Dug
Airwolf
Blue Thunder
Bombjack

Forbidden Forest? That name rings a bell - can someone tell me what it was about?

God Bless nostalgia!!!!

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Miguel_Sanchez

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good C64 emulator - I want to spend my evening reliving past glories and falling behind on work. And yes, I am too lazy to use a search engine.

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I'm the Dude

Mr_Wonderful

C-64 happy days!! Catridge in all, tape to cd, cd to tape wow my first hacking experience. If anyone has a workable c-64 and a state of the art 5 1/4" floppy drive and is interested I have 2 boxes of C-64 discs with a load of games. Give me a shout and i might pass them on oh yeah i can remember my best friend staying over one night and i think if memory serves me right it was a wrestling game we where playing. And do any remember the josticks that time constantly breaking i think it was down to the constant left to right movement of it!! Hey do't forget the Atari ST and the spectrum first time using the spectrum was ' 10 ? "My name is"
20 GOTO 10
Run
Happy Days!!

dr_bob

"Ah yeah...
What was it called...

Can't remember, but it invloved knife throwing (Which usually resulted in a screaming woman with a blade projecting from her stomach) high wire climbs, jumping hundred's of feet into a Tub, then a bucket, then a glass... and various other great stuff...

Was a good one, that game...
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'fiendish freddies big top of fun ' if I remember rightly - came on a cartridge..
always though a spy vs spy remake or last ninja 2'd make a grat HL mod but hey thats just me


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The Sweeper

Ah dammit to hell all I can remember is playing Gauntlet on my Spectrum and gazing wistfully at the Atari and Omega screenshots on the back of my tape cassette inlay card...
<sigh>

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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

HornedGod

The memories...

Elite was definitely the one I played to absolute death on my Speccy for well over six months (and still only got up to a rating of Deadly).

Other memorable classics from those bygone days:

Mercenary (flying around in the paper aeroplane!)
Starquake
Tomahawk (first game I had where you had to use that damn Lenslock system)
Match Day
Trans Am
Skool Daze (the PC remake is worth checking out)
The Hobbit
All the Level 9 adventure games (swearing in Price of Magick was especially funny)
All the Gargoyle games: Tir Na Nog, Marsport, Heavy on the Magick
Zynaps
Quazatron (the Speccy's answer to Paradroid)
The Sentinel

I remember meeting Jon Ritman a few years ago at one of the ECTS shows. He was at Cranberry Source at the time, while I was at Sensible. Jon Hare ended up dragging him and his co-workers out for a few drinks and an Indian meal with our lot after the show that day. It was rather amusing :-) Nice bloke too.

HG

GreenHell

I had one of those but only for about a week till I shafted it back to were it came from and got a 286 instead

DemonBaby

Favourite for me was:
Pools of radiance,loved it to pieces.
Others were raid over Moscow,magic carpet,Elite (my second fav),Sentinal( which i couldnt figure out)I also got a game from aan Autor called Harry Harrison a sci fi writer..the game was based on one of his characters called 'stainless steel rat saves the world'
I should have got him to sign it and kept it in its wrapper..mosaic company publisehd it.
twas crap though.
used to hire games from a company in England and copy them on the dual decked stereo in college.I mean back them up..not copy. .
Anyone else use the zx80 and then was awestruck with the zx81?.
DemonBaby.