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[joseale]

Hard to pick a favorite, but I want to say Raid over Moscow and Lode Runner. I remember as a little kid asking for a long time to get a C64 and my father eventually bringing home a C128. I eventually found (or more likely stumbled on, the manual being gigantic and in english) buried in the manual the "trick" for having it boot in C64 mode, allowing me to run all games, although the C64 compatibility was never 100%.

Others I can remember putting a lot of time into:

Racing Destruction Set
Silent Service
Beyond the forbidden forest
Fast Hack'em (not really a game)
Airborne Ranger
Seven Cities of Gold (looks suspiciously alike the heart of africa game already mentioned)
The last V8 (on datassete, would take 40 minutes to load)

gotta love a bunch of those games keeping the title visible at all times!

Oh and this damn game for which I never could figure out what to do while at the same time having me completely freaked out because death was coming after me:

Scarabaeus

 

[DavidBoring]

Seven Cities of Gold (looks suspiciously alike the heart of africa game already mentioned)

Heart of Africa is sort of a sequel to Seven Cities of Gold

 

[MisterM]

Official Father Christmas Game.

 

[ColdBrew]

Questron - Probably my first RPG, so it is special to me.
Archon - I broke so many controllers getting upset at this game.
Zork - Probably one of the first computer games I ever played.
Little Computer People - Sadly I let my guy die and it some how corrupted the disk...
Racing Destruction Set - I spent many endless hours seeing how high far I could jump stuff.

I could name lots more and also name lots of Amiga games, but that looks pretty good.

 

[StarBlazers1]

Impossible Mission was my fave. "Another visitor. Stay awhile. Staaaaaaaayy Forever!"

 

[goonergaz]

So, naturally there's loads of awsome titles already listed (GZ! I was gonna post MoM )

Anyway, I'm listing games not listed so far (hopefully - I may have missed them)

Barry McGuigans Boxing
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nR2rw6wCYgU/TelKF6CRcxI/AAAAAAAAADI/G0xbzjq71Tg/s1600/_-Barry-McGuigan-Championship-Boxing-C64-_.gif
A great system meant you challanged a boxer ranked a few places above you, slowly your power & speed would improve and you worked your way to the top!

Rescue on Fractalus

Randomly generated 'cutting edge' gameplay with 'jumps' should the guy you're rescuing be an alien who started thumping on the screen!!

BCs Quest for Tyres

Great fun and a pretty good sequel too!

3d Flip and Flop

Very addictive isometric spin on pac-man.

Survivor

Great little space shooter

The Double

Hated by many, endless days lost by me...and yes, I did do The Double - with Arsenal of course!

Little Computer People (ok, I was just beaten to it - but man...this spawned the SIMS!)

 

[Knuf]

An awesome Donkey Kong Jr. C=64 conversion has just been released (from the same GG guy who brought us PoP, btw), but it has already become a instant-classic:

 

[Brashnir]

Grand Prix Circuit

Skate or Die

Space Taxi

Curse of the Azure Bonds

Hat Trick

Menace

BC's Quest for Tires

Pirates!

 

[bjork]

Pirates! for sure.

Law of the West, Space Taxi, Impossible Mission

 

[spunodi]

Haven't seen these two but they were my favourites as a kid (playing on tapes using a joystick; golden times).

Slug

You are a Slug and your girlfriend Slug has been kidnapped while you were watching TV together. Thus you must do battle on several levels to try and find her. Dead simple and ridiculously hard (there are these indestructible bouncing pyramid things I could never get past) but appealing to a young me.

Video

DJ Puff

You are a dragon who is also a DJ. Your record collection has been stolen by some Aztec Indians and some other jazz and you must hunt them down. A nice little platformer with a nice soundtrack (from memory; and you could change it by firing at the right block). Frustratingly loops after the final boss but a nice ride all the same.

 

[MisterM]

Those Codemasters covers, takes me back to spinning the cassette carousel at Boots or WH Smiths as a child, harassing my mum for £2.99 for that Dizzy game I hadn't got yet.

:')

 

[Melchiah]

I also liked Racing Destruction Set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw3R-_flF4Y

I particularly enjoyed setting the gravity crazy high and watching the shenanigans ensue.

Yeah, my favorite as well. I created dozens of tracks, which we played together with my friend.

 

[Deraj]

For a C64 nostalgia hit, you can read 70 scanned issues of Commodore User at the Internet Archive..

 

[POWERSPHERE]

Skate or die. No contest.

 

[Lutherian]

Turrican II. This is not only a game. This is THE game.

 

[andylsun]

Stumbled across these while looking for something else in storage boxes.

Including a early Jeff Minter VIC-20 game!