Commodore 64

Ferrari3600 · 21-11-2016 2:35pm

Head over Heels. Excellent game on both C64 and ZX Spectrum.

ahlookit · 21-11-2016 2:37pm

Microprose Soccer for the old top-down view.

Outdoor football on one side of the tape, indoor on the other.

On the outdoor one, run down the wing, cut inside, shoot from between the edge of the D and the corner of the penalty area and you were guaranteed to score every time.

privateBeavis · 21-11-2016 2:53pm

I had a Spectrum but my neighbor had the C64 best game was pitstop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD7rB7FPepA

only problem was it took ages to load from tape and not sure if this was common issue or the neighbors C64 was extra fragile but if you walked across the creaky floorboards while it was loading it was liable to fail!!

Cravez · 21-11-2016 3:54pm

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Anyone else think Freddys fiendish circus game was really really dark and weird looking?

Fiendish Freddies gave me my phobia of clowns and the circus in general. That game was nightmare fuel.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-11-2016 5:21pm

Slightly before my time I think. I had a Megadrive before moving on to a Playstation.

chopperbyrne · 21-11-2016 7:36pm

We had a green screen Amstrad CPC 464

Dozens of pirated games.

The Rape of Lucretia · 21-11-2016 7:41pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Slightly before my time I think. I had a Megadrive before moving on to a Playstation.

We're talking computers here man. Serious stuff.
You had a toy. Then a fancier toy.
We had a serious machine.

ShamoBuc · 21-11-2016 8:02pm

Absolutely loved my Commodore 64. Hated the length of time it took to load on tape but endless hours were spent playing every game mentioned in the thread so far. My older brother got in on the act and bought the disk drive, Dig Dug was great fun while Uridium was my absolute favourite, completed it, sat back in near disbelief, then started again, pure bliss as a young fella!!

Grandeeod · 21-11-2016 9:45pm

I've read the thread from the start. Somebody mentioned a ****ing Spectrum for real computing.:rolleyes:

Honestly, the very underrated Oric 1 and successor was class.

My days before real computing ended with a commodore 128. She was a bitch.

jimmy blevins · 21-11-2016 9:53pm

nice_guy80 wrote: »

Terminator 2

Longest wait ever for a game to load
Wasn't even worth it

Still played it loads though

I member being at my friend's house hounding him to have a go on t2, waited an absolute age only to die on the first level.

deco nate · 21-11-2016 9:56pm

Never had one. but I did have a Toshiba msx 64.anyone else remember them?

faceman · 21-11-2016 9:57pm

"Hairyarseholes" remains the best cheat code of all time.

Without googling it can you remember the game though?

lambayire · 21-11-2016 9:58pm

Falcon Patrol was brilliant.

Never got past about 30% of the Hobbit.

And of course, like everyone else, I knackered my joystick
with Daley Thompon's Decathlon.

Good times!

mfceiling · 21-11-2016 10:55pm

Feck you lads. The only game I remember having was Barry McGuigan boxing. 3 quid of my Xmas money on that.

And that's why I've spent the last 20 mins watching it on youtube.

razorblunt · 21-11-2016 11:03pm

Ah for the love of christ, I've never felt compelled to watch T2 being played on YouTube.
I've now rectifed that, I just realised on Level 1, you could BLOCK. Explains why I only got past it once.

Permabear · 21-11-2016 11:36pm

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Grandeeod · 21-11-2016 11:38pm

Permabear wrote: »

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I did suggest. I started on an Oric 1.

Permabear · 21-11-2016 11:48pm

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dr.fuzzenstein · 22-11-2016 7:58am

Permabear wrote: »

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Just the same on the 64 or the 128 (which I had). Spent hours playing with basic and assembler and the same goes for a lot of my friends. One had the Freeze Frame cartridge, it had a machine code monitor where you could break out of a program and into the code. We used to save music and graphics separately and play around with them. So away with your claims of superior geekdom!

Tazio · 22-11-2016 8:55am

10 REM THIS PROGRAM WILL NEVER COMPLETE
20 POKE 53281,0
25 PRINT "THAT IS THE BACKGROUND COLOUR CHANGED"
30 SYS 64738

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. I blame this machine for the outcome of my life..... if only I'd played soccer instead..

faceman · 22-11-2016 9:31am

Did anyone have one of those Action Replay cartridges for their C64?

Paarthurnax · 22-11-2016 9:47am

Loved Golden Axe and Supremacy they were more towards the end of its era, Ghosts and Ghouls, CAbal, New Zealand story the memories.
As for the cogging as we called it, buy a new game in the Virgin mega Store etc copy it on the old tape to tape (cogger) and take it back and exchange by saying that you got 2 of the same game for your birthday or christmas.
The copying tape to tape even worked with high speed dubbing

and you could put multiple games on a c90 cassette.
Thats what the digit counter on the c64 tape player came in handy for.

ninja 12 · 22-11-2016 9:47am

faceman wrote: »

Did anyone have one of those Action Replay cartridges for their C64?

Yeah , I did .

If I remember right , I got it by mail order from the UK , from an ad in one of the magazines .

Easy cheating

buck65 · 22-11-2016 9:51am

Buck Rogers, Hero - great game, going down mineshafts blowing up walls looking for treasure, A View to a Kill - Bond game, not a clue what it was about.
Good times, frustrating at times though.

Paarthurnax · 22-11-2016 9:52am

faceman wrote: »

"Hairyarseholes" remains the best cheat code of all time.

Without googling it can you remember the game though?

Had to google it out of curiosity, knew it was in reverse alright. The game was CJs Elephant antics a game I remember nothing about.

jimgoose · 22-11-2016 9:55am

Proper bit of kit back in the day, those. Expensive, but advanced. Geek factoid: in the original Terminator film, the machine point-of-view shots as it walks into the bar feature, among all the "computery-looking" crap, some scrolling MOS 6502 assembler code - the CPU used in the '64.

doubledown · 22-11-2016 10:01am

If you're looking for a Commodore 64 nostalgia quick fix the this YouTube channel is worth checking out. He has uploaded long-play videos of gameplay from just about every C64 title you can think of.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksDR-PrStJbBG8l7DQtwrA

jcrowbar · 22-11-2016 3:14pm

doubledown wrote: »

If you're looking for a Commodore 64 nostalgia quick fix the this YouTube channel is worth checking out. He has uploaded long-play videos of gameplay from just about every C64 title you can think of.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksDR-PrStJbBG8l7DQtwrA

I love the fact that he`s put 720p as the resolution for the videos when the C64 was nowhere near capable or that.

Nesta99 · 24-11-2016 10:49am

chopperbyrne wrote: »

We had a green screen Amstrad CPC 464

Dozens of pirated games.

I had colour sceen and floppy drive but Carrier Command was the last surviving game I had....very off thread in a C64 thread!! I got an Amiga after for Commodore fans

branie2 · 24-11-2016 9:18pm

Yes, I had one was I was a kid. It was a great computer.

buried · 10-12-2016 1:39am

Another 'Last Ninja 2' C64 soundtrack part sampled for a recently released 2016 EP

scriba · 10-12-2016 1:58am

razorblunt wrote: »

... and some racing game where your futuristic car could be swapped to a motorbike. It also had Smoke on the Water as the theme song, loved that game.

LED Storm

blueyedson · 10-12-2016 10:17am

Loads of memories coming back from reading this thread of the c64.

Used to love copying the games using double tape decks...had to mess around with the amp settings and hope for d best...hours doing 1 game!

Then another program called mega tape or something that could crack some of the loaders..anyone remember that one?

Used to swap loads of games that would be copied on a turbo loader...games would load 5 times quicker could fit loads on one c90 tape !

OldMrBrennan83 · 12-12-2016 9:27am

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Oliver Beetroot · 12-12-2016 9:37am

Amiga 500 Plus FTW.

Iseedeadpixels · 13-12-2016 12:53pm

The New Zealand story my first game obsession when I was 6

Tigger007 · 23-04-2021 11:44am

Remember this soccer manager game, where it took a long time to load and as for watching little match stick men move slowly on screen. my friend played for months and eventually got a managers job in the first division

Tony EH · 23-04-2021 9:43pm

Olishi4 wrote: »

Did you have one of these?

No. Had a Speccy. Cos everyone else I knew had one. The amount of games that were passed around was obscene. :pac:

You could get a C90 or C120 with a shitload of games on them and stick it in the stereo to copy it and they usually worked.

Happy days getting a tape off of a mate and not knowing what was on it. Loading it up and going through each game one by one.

Matchday...have it.

Jetpac...have it.

Knight Lore...have it.

Green Beret! YES!

23-04-2021 9:52pm

Spent hours on this

The absolute state of it

monkeysnapper · 23-04-2021 9:56pm

Skommando wrote: »

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

I had a commodore 64 that broke twice in warranty and I asked guy in shop could I just swap it for a spectrum and he said yes ....

To this day im not sure did I make right decision.

I loved midnight resistance and target renegade.... I also completed most the the Dizzy collection .

Back in a time that you could borrow a game from someone at school ,,, take it home and copy it on my big sisters twin cassette player while she permed her hair and have a free game..... oh the happy times ....

In the wind · 22-10-2022 6:05pm

so I have just pulled my commmodore 64 out of storage after about 30 years.

Night Moves edition Christmas, 1988.

I’ve set it up and everything seems to be working as expected.

I want to get back playing Wonderboy and it loads OK all the way to the start screen and then I’m prompted to hit the function button to start the game but that won’t start the game.

I seem to remember those something else to do to initiate the game but it escapes me right now anybody have any ideas?

In the wind · 22-10-2022 6:06pm

😁

The memories!

Spear · 22-10-2022 6:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119780115#Comment_119780115

You'd want to ask in Arcade and Retro if it needs repairs:

https://www.boards.ie/categories/arcade-retro

In the wind · 22-10-2022 6:07pm

Stuck here. 😕

Inviere · 22-10-2022 6:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119780115#Comment_119780115

I did the same earlier in the year, another Night Moves pack owner here. I replaced the caps, and added a fastloader cart (makes a MASSIVE difference to loading times) and an SD2IEC as an sd based disc drive. Chuffed with it and how it turned out - https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058234628/commodore-64-restore-and-upgrades

In the wind · 22-10-2022 6:13pm

I'm not sure it's broken. It appears th load the game but I just forget how to start the game.

Cheers.

In the wind · 22-10-2022 6:15pm

Replaced the caps? I have no idea what that means. Sorry.

I have no idea what that means. Sorry.

Do you think you need to do all of those things to get it up and running or which one would be my best best to do first?

In the wind · 22-10-2022 6:20pm

Hmm digital speed loaders. Very interesting. Thanks for the nudge.

Spear · 22-10-2022 6:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119780182#Comment_119780182

He's referring to having the capacitors replaced, as they break down over time, and often leak.

In the wind · 22-10-2022 6:38pm

Ah ok, thanks.

Not sure it's broken inside. Some of my other gals won't load but do try. Load screen comes up as expected.

I suspect the tape deck head is the issue for the non loading games.

Commodore 64

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