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Favorite Commodore 64 game?
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WeAreStarStuff
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Beach Head II! Loved playing that with my dad as a small child.
Barbarian:The Ultimate Warrior or 'Death Sword' in the US.
One on one fighting game to the death. You gotta kill 8 other barbarians to reach the final boss Drax the Wizard.
You each have a life meter and you can either hack each other to death or hit a one hit kill with some well timed precision to lob the other guys head off. The loser of the fight has their decapitated body dragged from the arena by a little goblin
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=14ORMf6SjTc
One on one fighting game to the death. You gotta kill 8 other barbarians to reach the final boss Drax the Wizard.
You each have a life meter and you can either hack each other to death or hit a one hit kill with some well timed precision to lob the other guys head off. The loser of the fight has their decapitated body dragged from the arena by a little goblin
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=14ORMf6SjTc
Hit the spacebar to open the flight doors in Raid over Moscow.
What else...
Airborne Ranger - ALL TIME CLASSIC.
Skyfox
Zak McCracken
Law of the West
4th and Inches
Maniac Mansion
Way of the Exploding Fist
Championship Wrestling
Rock n Wrestle - I can't hear the music for this without crying with laughter.
Wacky Darts
Seriously, I could do this all day.
yessssssssDead Space64 aka Project Firestart.
What a thread (and stop posting ZX Spectrum screenshots)
My favourites (and I still own 2 x C64 and all my games)
Armalyte
Delta (predecessor to Armalyte)
Elite
Paradroid
Uridium (I admire, but don't actually enjoy playing)
International Karate+
and probably lots more I've forgotten.
My favourites (and I still own 2 x C64 and all my games)
Armalyte
Delta (predecessor to Armalyte)
Elite
Paradroid
Uridium (I admire, but don't actually enjoy playing)
International Karate+
and probably lots more I've forgotten.
DustyVonEric
Member
Yessssss!
"You can't hurt meeeee!" so good :')
Loved Montezuma's Revenge, the Street Sports Baseball, Basketball, and Football games, and the ultimate... the AD&D Gold Box series.
Many great games already said.
Mr.Do.
Mr.Do's castle.
Frak.
Pooyan.
Gribblys day out.
Thing on a spring.
Archon.
Edit anyone remember "Chiller". It was a masteronic budget title. Blatant rip off of MJ's thriller at the time. You could get away with it then.
Far too many lol. My favourite system ever.
Mr.Do.
Mr.Do's castle.
Frak.
Pooyan.
Gribblys day out.
Thing on a spring.
Archon.
Edit anyone remember "Chiller". It was a masteronic budget title. Blatant rip off of MJ's thriller at the time. You could get away with it then.
Far too many lol. My favourite system ever.
Corleth the Fey
Member
So many of the games mentioned here are amazing, but here's a C64 game I played hundreds of hours of. I was totally absorbed into its pseudo future World War 3 as invisioned in the 80's.
Project Stealth Fighter. Not so much a flight sim but stealth game played over simulated warzones, where you sneak past SAM sites, radar stations, warships and aircraft and blow your target to hell and back and leave before the enemy even knows what hit them.
Beautiful game and that manual - I must have read that thing a hundred times.
https://archive.org/details/Project_Stealth_Fighter_1987_Microprose_Software
Project Stealth Fighter. Not so much a flight sim but stealth game played over simulated warzones, where you sneak past SAM sites, radar stations, warships and aircraft and blow your target to hell and back and leave before the enemy even knows what hit them.
Beautiful game and that manual - I must have read that thing a hundred times.
https://archive.org/details/Project_Stealth_Fighter_1987_Microprose_Software
Along with Winter games! I loved the 'games' series.
Auto-Reply
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Giana Sisters (Mario clone), at the time I wasn't even aware it's a clone.
Babarian, winning by spinning around and cutting off the head of your enemy was always the best thing, after the music of course.
IK+, the sound of the ball hitting the shield is burned into my ears, boing.
Werner Flashbier, Boulder Dash clone (which is also a clone)
The Summer/Winter/California games were always a family event back in the day... everybody came together and play the stupid games that always threatened to damage your joysticks lol.
Katakis (R-Type)...loved this sidescrolling Spaceshooter, the music was fantastic.
There was aslo a game where you fly around as a witch and can enter houses/caves and you need to find keyes and stuff... never finished that one because I never figured out what to do but I always went back to it to try again.
Also, already posted this in another thread but maybe here is the better place A Tribute To Rob Hubbard
Babarian, winning by spinning around and cutting off the head of your enemy was always the best thing, after the music of course.
IK+, the sound of the ball hitting the shield is burned into my ears, boing.
Werner Flashbier, Boulder Dash clone (which is also a clone)
The Summer/Winter/California games were always a family event back in the day... everybody came together and play the stupid games that always threatened to damage your joysticks lol.
Katakis (R-Type)...loved this sidescrolling Spaceshooter, the music was fantastic.
There was aslo a game where you fly around as a witch and can enter houses/caves and you need to find keyes and stuff... never finished that one because I never figured out what to do but I always went back to it to try again.
Also, already posted this in another thread but maybe here is the better place A Tribute To Rob Hubbard
drugstore_cowboy
Member
Favorite original game would be Last Ninja 2 or Myth. There's a few nice ports like Power Drift and Bubble Bobble I really liked too.
forgot about Archon. played that one a ton and would easily be on my list.
djcatskratch
Member
I just remembered I LOVED the Hot Wheels game too!
DustyVonEric
Member
All those Electronic Arts sports games were controller breakers, but still great though.
Just looked it up. Wiki said it was Epyx games. Oh well. Either way, those games were awesome until your shit broke.
Gianni Merryman
Member
So much time has passed that I have to think hard to bring back to mind some of the many games I used to play back in the day.
These are the ones I can think of right now:
Bruce Lee
Rambo
Wonder Boy - port of the Sega game
Bubble Bubble - port of the Taito game
Forbidden forest- maybe that is not the correct name, it was a creepy game where you fight owls and giant spiders with a bow
These are the ones I can think of right now:
Bruce Lee
Rambo
Wonder Boy - port of the Sega game
Bubble Bubble - port of the Taito game
Forbidden forest- maybe that is not the correct name, it was a creepy game where you fight owls and giant spiders with a bow
Renegade and Target Renegade deserve a mention - just because of my love of scrolling beat em ups.
I'd also say wizball but I played a ton of it on the amiga instead.
Edit: I see someone said Gunship, that came with one of the most amazingly complex manuals ever, too bad it was wasted on it!
I'd also say wizball but I played a ton of it on the amiga instead.
Edit: I see someone said Gunship, that came with one of the most amazingly complex manuals ever, too bad it was wasted on it!
Here For The Free Feed
Member
probably river raid
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Enigma Force, Uridium, Zennox (sp?), Panther, Turrican, Bard's Tale, 007: License To Kill, War On Middle Earth, Ghostbusters... Loads.
Man, I loved my C64.
EDIT: Oh, shit! How could I forget the Cinemaware classic, Defender of the Crown? Blue Max and Operation: Wolf, too.
Man, I loved my C64.
EDIT: Oh, shit! How could I forget the Cinemaware classic, Defender of the Crown? Blue Max and Operation: Wolf, too.
Gianni Merryman
Member
Well, I played Summer games a lot in multiplayer with my father and my brothers and I recall it was based on precision and timing rather than waggling the jpystick as quickly as possible, at the very least I'm thinking of archery, swimming and dives.
As far as I can remember Track'n field it was a joystick breaker though, in the arcades they had to fix the cabinets once every once and then.
Neff
Member
I always thought it was Wizball but I've just realised it's actually Bruce Lee. Huh.
You know what? It's impossible for me not to think of this game when I play Dead Space.
Dead Space64 aka Project Firestart.
You know what? It's impossible for me not to think of this game when I play Dead Space.
High five for Enigma Force. Can't believe someone else actually remembers that game.
This thread reminded me of a lot of great games. I've always really liked Archon 2, Racing Destruction Set, Mail Order Monsters, Bruce Lee, Pirates, Beachhead 2...
Maybe I should try some of those more complicated games that mesmerized me as a kid but made no sense, like Times of Lore, Autoduel, and Moebius. I think those are all Origin games, too.
Oh yeah, and BC 2 Quest for Tires was scary as hell.
Maybe I should try some of those more complicated games that mesmerized me as a kid but made no sense, like Times of Lore, Autoduel, and Moebius. I think those are all Origin games, too.
Oh yeah, and BC 2 Quest for Tires was scary as hell.
Gianni Merryman
Member
Bruce Lee was one of my favourites and I had a lot of fun with it; I've recently watched a Youtube video and it was very different from what I was recalling.
This vaguely reminds there was another beat/em up game with a sort of Bruce Lee with a numchanka fighting hordes of enemies in a building, there were also boss fights in it.
Impossible mission was nice and all but as much as I tried I could not figure out what was the purpose of the game other than aimlessly entering random rooms trying not to get killed; I tend to put it into that same category of games that I wanted to like but I could not get into, like Spy vs Spy or Spiderman - the text adventure game.
Yeah, that one with the caveman, it was nice!
I loved my C64. I had so many games for it.
Some that I remember:-
Microprose Soccer
Chase HQ
Batman
Robocop
Wizball
Last Ninja games
Lords of Midnight + Doomdarks Revenge
Total Eclipse
Elite
Creatures 1 & 2
Cybernoid
Stunt Car Racer
Turrican 1 & 2
Druid
Bounder
Arkanoid
Basil the Great Mouse Detective
Exile
Foxx Fights Back
The Untouchables
Jack the Nipper
Mercenary
Myth
Netherworld
The New Zealand Story
Hunter's Moon
Sanxion
Retrograde
Hawkeye
Trailblazer
Some that I remember:-
Microprose Soccer
Chase HQ
Batman
Robocop
Wizball
Last Ninja games
Lords of Midnight + Doomdarks Revenge
Total Eclipse
Elite
Creatures 1 & 2
Cybernoid
Stunt Car Racer
Turrican 1 & 2
Druid
Bounder
Arkanoid
Basil the Great Mouse Detective
Exile
Foxx Fights Back
The Untouchables
Jack the Nipper
Mercenary
Myth
Netherworld
The New Zealand Story
Hunter's Moon
Sanxion
Retrograde
Hawkeye
Trailblazer
Yeah, I know. It's shameless how Nintendo ripped it off for Super Mario Bros!
the level design becomes pretty different from SMB after the first couple of levels. 
Oh god, yeah, I remember that. That game is such utter bullshit with all the blind jumps, get one wrong and you die instantly.
SystemUser
Member
I had an NES as my primary game machine so Raid over Moscow stands out for me because it was so different from NES games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPnSMRm3Jhg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPnSMRm3Jhg
Oh what have you done! Far too many to mention, but rattled off the top of my head:
Boulderdash
Impossible Mission
Pitstop II
Spindizzy
Paradroid
Ballblazer
Cosmic Causeway
The Eidolon
Ghosts 'n' Goblins
S.E.U.C.K (shoot 'em up construction kit)
Wizball
Desert Fox
Druid
The Last Ninja
Nebulus
Spy vs Spy
Uridium +
World Games
International Karate +
Turrican
Bubble Bobble
Green Beret
Head Over Heels
Emelyn Hughes International Soccer
Creatures
Rick Dangerous 2
Armalyte
If that looks like a huge list bear in mind in its heyday there were around 30 releases a month on C64, with usually at least one stellar release among all the pap.
Boulderdash
Impossible Mission
Pitstop II
Spindizzy
Paradroid
Ballblazer
Cosmic Causeway
The Eidolon
Ghosts 'n' Goblins
S.E.U.C.K (shoot 'em up construction kit)
Wizball
Desert Fox
Druid
The Last Ninja
Nebulus
Spy vs Spy
Uridium +
World Games
International Karate +
Turrican
Bubble Bobble
Green Beret
Head Over Heels
Emelyn Hughes International Soccer
Creatures
Rick Dangerous 2
Armalyte
If that looks like a huge list bear in mind in its heyday there were around 30 releases a month on C64, with usually at least one stellar release among all the pap.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
From what I can remember it was the first wrestling game I'd ever seen for a home system, so that was my only reason for buying and playing the crap out of it.
I remember Epyx released a MUCH nicer wrestling title later, the name of which escapes me. Maybe something like Main Event?
Also...
Yie Ar Kung Fu - I frickin' BEAT using an Atari 2600 controller! I don't think I could come anywhere close these days.
Miner 2049er - A classic.
Boulder Dash - Another classic
Goldrusher
Member
Possibly my favourite system ever. It was also the first gaming machine that was mine rather than shared with my siblings or a 'family' machine.
I've been thinking about this all day and I reckon I've decided. It's Creatures 2: Torture Trouble. That's my final answer.
Edit: no, it's Stunt Car Racer. Or possibly Badlands. Maybe Reckless Rufus.
No, it's definitely Creatures 2. Definitely.
Edit edit: I mean Stunt Car Racer. For sure this time. Not Rodland. Not BMX Simulator.
I've been thinking about this all day and I reckon I've decided. It's Creatures 2: Torture Trouble. That's my final answer.
Edit: no, it's Stunt Car Racer. Or possibly Badlands. Maybe Reckless Rufus.
No, it's definitely Creatures 2. Definitely.
Edit edit: I mean Stunt Car Racer. For sure this time. Not Rodland. Not BMX Simulator.
Schrödinger's cat
Banned
Armalyte
Citadel (the Martin Walker game)
The Sentinel (a game where the slow frame-rate enhannced the atmosphere immeasurably)
Winter Games, World Games and California Games
Gribbly's Day Out
Mercenary (3D open-world game, exceptional frame-rate. No idea what happened to Paul Woakes though)
Bard's Tale III
Battletech - The Crescent Hawk's Inception
Kickstart II
Iridis Alpha
Of course it doesn't make sense. It's a Jeff Minter game.
Dropzone
Intensity (lesser-known Andrew 'Uridium' Braybook game. A shooter with no bullets)
Drelbs
And an awful lot more.
I was a huge fan of games like Armalyte and Retrograde and Creatures. Years later I found myself working at HotGen studios, headed by Probe's Fergus McGovern. Who should I find myself working with but the programmers of those games, including the graphic artist too. Childhood dream come true. Very very good people, down to earth, modest but supremely talented.
This thread is great.
Citadel (the Martin Walker game)
The Sentinel (a game where the slow frame-rate enhannced the atmosphere immeasurably)
Winter Games, World Games and California Games
Gribbly's Day Out
Mercenary (3D open-world game, exceptional frame-rate. No idea what happened to Paul Woakes though)
Bard's Tale III
Battletech - The Crescent Hawk's Inception
Kickstart II
Iridis Alpha
Of course it doesn't make sense. It's a Jeff Minter game.
Dropzone
Intensity (lesser-known Andrew 'Uridium' Braybook game. A shooter with no bullets)
Drelbs
And an awful lot more.
I was a huge fan of games like Armalyte and Retrograde and Creatures. Years later I found myself working at HotGen studios, headed by Probe's Fergus McGovern. Who should I find myself working with but the programmers of those games, including the graphic artist too. Childhood dream come true. Very very good people, down to earth, modest but supremely talented.
This thread is great.
captainblye
Neo Member
Mail Order Monsters for sure.
