What was your favourite Commodore 64 game?

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Midnight Resistance, Ocean Software, 1990

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The Blues Brothers, Titus Software, 1991

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Burger Time, Interceptor, 1984

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Tracksuit Manager, Goliath, 1988

Raid Over Moscow.

jammin', or ghettoblaster, or whatever it was called. that ruled.

alter-ego.

wizball, dudes. wizball.

Not a C64 man meself, but Bruce Lee was particularly good.

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Doomsdark's Revenge, Beyond, 1986

Rat Race:

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Ghetto pacman

Doomdark's Revenge -

Played it on the Speccy. Was the 3rd of the trilogy ever completed?

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"Stay awhile . . . stay FOREVER!"

Played it on the Speccy. Was the 3rd of the trilogy ever completed?

Apparently gash.

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PARADROID (graftgold, 1985)

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IMPOSSIBLE MISSION!!!!!

Dom - Bah. I suspended my puberty for two years waiting for it as well....

Fuck. People already grabbed "rat race" and "impossible mission" which were 2 of my faves.

THE LAST NINJA 2

Fuck. People already grabbed "rat race" and "impossible mission" which were 2 of my faves.

-- John Justen, Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

fuck dude... what are you going to do?

the image isn't loading. we talking radar rat race or roland's rat race?

i won a £10 book token in 1987 (i think) for getting the highest score on the latter at a school fete.

we had some fuckin' geeky school fetes.

One thing unique (I think) to the C64 were bootleg unofficial "remakes" of popular PC, SNES, and Mega Drive games that were far beyond the C64's ability. Here's Doom:

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plenty of the official ports bore scant resemblance to the original, did anyone else ever see that street fighter II port?? terrible.

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this game was a freaky little hippie jam:

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I had One on One with Dr. J and Larry Bird. It was awesome because you could smash the backboard and a little janitor guy would come out and bitch at you.

holy crap, about the last two posts!!! I loved those two games

CYBERNOID!!!

Mail Order Monsters... I don't think I've ever sucked at a game more.

PARADROID OTM

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Slicks, Codemasters, 1992. I *think* the first game where you actually "drove" a car, rather than just holding down accelerate and moving left and right.

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I would pretty much buy anything that "Electronic Arts" put out in that era. Almost all of it was good.

I mail-ordered Baal and it took like three months to get to me because we lived in India at the time and I had to wait and wait and finally it came and it was pretty terrible.

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yep, Electronic Arts was great. Heart of Africa was awesome, and Ultimate Wizard, too.

The music was worse than the graphics. xp

Other fun overseas C64 story: going to the "technology market" in Belgrade and buying disks with like 30 bootleg games on them, and half of them didn't work and the other half were impossible to play because I didn't have the instructions and couldn't figure out what the hell was going on.

ahhhhh bootleg C-64 disks with 8 million games on them. those were the days. why oh why did i give away my C-64 to my uncle?

I rather liked Way of the Exploding Fist, if only because of the title.

Ultimate Wizard was awesome.

Did anyone else ever end up with this:http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-64-Rendezvous-with-Rama/dp/B000B6E96E ?

It sucked.

YES. That was like the most notorious game for not being able to figure out what was happening.

California Games, dude. How stupid is it to play hackey sack on a computer??

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INTERNATIONAL KARATE

YES. That was like the most notorious game for not being able to figure out what was happening.

-- n/a, Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:53 PM (3 minutes ago)

Also competing in that category : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker

ghostbusters

rocky horror picture show: another WTF game

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has nobody mentioned the last ninja yet? i didn't like it that much, but everyone else wanks on about it.

ghostbusters was ace on the C64 and a bad joke on the spectrum.

ha ha i forgot about rocky horr.

I couldn't figure it out at all. I kept being got by someone, then losing my clothes, and then I'd die.

Last Ninja II and a game called Microdot that I got free on the cover of YC64.

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Caveman Ugh-Lympics, with wifetossing.

but impossible mission wins, yeah

bc's quest 2: grog's revenge. that fucking RULED.

also! bc bill. simple wife-beating fun for all the family.

what was it about caveman games and aceness?

Aha, here it is: http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=1670
Addictive little fucker

Seconding California Games (with particular note to the inexplicable bit where a UFO abducts your mate in the frisbee section) and Ghostbusters.

lords of chaos

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THORIN SITS DOWN AND STARTS SINGING ABOUT GOLD

EVERYONE OTM

oh aye, ghostbusters!

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karateka

bruce lee, elite, raid on bungeling bay, paradroid, and some version of international karate are the best ones i can remember

beach head and beach head ii were rad
so was heart of africa

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there's gonna be a telling US/UK divide here, isn't there? i was always insanely jealous of C64/1541 owners being able to play these awesome-looking and enormously clever american games on disk while UK firms churned out a slew of fucking crappy platformers.

anyway, i'm just visiting. i should be back on the spectrum thread.

I thought this, until I saw a 1541 churning and whirring and being generally as slow as tape.

c64s were crap, face it

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i bet this was awesome. anyone able to confirm?

I have to admit a particular liking for the commie-bashing glory that was Raid Over Moscow.

Maniac Mansion was classic didn't play it on C64 though, I remember designing similar games on masses of A4 paper with my best friend.

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Pretty hot (xxp)

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i...i think i've got a flush.

Haha, I remember me and my friends tried to play Samantha Fox strip poker, but we were a bit too young to understand what was so great about it.

Skeet + Run Stop

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Our favourite game, though, was this bootleg games called "Sex Games" (or something like that), where there were couples in different sex positions (missionary, blowjob, doggie style, etc.), and you had to jiggle the joystick from left to right, just like in sports games, and the couples onscreen would move accordingly. The problem was that further you got, the harder you had to shake the joystick; the last screen in the game was group sex, but by then the jiggling required was so vigorous that none of us ever had enough energy to pass it, and we never found out what would've happened once you win the Sex Games. :(

i never knew 64k could be so exciting :(

i had a text-based adventure game that started with your guy in a little spaceship held in a tractor beam. there was nothing in the spaceship apart from some kind of gun. i never got past that first part. i couldn't move the ship, i couldn't leave the ship, and it wouldn't even let me fire the gun. i was in tears of frustration and disappointment. worst 99p i ever spent in Tesco. if anyone can identify from that shitty description i'd be grateful, and impressed.

That reminds me of the embarrasingly long time it took me and my mates to work out how to actually do something at the locations you visited on Hacker.

yep. that game made me really mad, and I quit at about that point.

Hacker, not unknown spaceship game.

thank god somebody else did that. We felt like such tits when we finally figured it out. I don't think we played much beyond that either.

max r: i had that on the spectrum and loved it. got to a point where i couldn't work out how to get any more bastard points, mind, so just turned myself into a cooker and hoved about the place.

(seriously, for those of you who haven't played it: that's how it worked.)

ZAK MCKRACKEN

(already mentioned above but had to shout it out)

Kickstart 2

Tuomas, was this the game? (relatively NSFW)
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which game was kid tom hanks playing in the movie Big?

ACE, except I'd always die when it came to refuelling. Also played Ghosts n' Goblins a fair bit.

good call on turrican, fez. maybe the greatest shooter!

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I never owned a C64, but the one game that I played on a friend's machine that stuck in my memory would be Uridium. The spectrum conversion was great but never as good as the original.

katakis, an r-type ripoff that was more awesome than the original. featuring the theme from delta force in level 5 (@6:40 in the video)

Last Ninja and Impossible Mission are way way way up there, but I probably sank the most time into Pirates! OMG what a fantastic game.

I also loved those text adventures that were jazzed up with still pictures for each scene eg:

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Dragon World

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Mindshadow

hahah you're always on a beach.

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My favourites have all been mentioned already I think - Wizball (even better 2 player), Pirates, Paradroid. There was a game called something like Head over Heels (possibly a port from the (boo!) Spectrum) that I liked.

Also I remember another good game called Exile (another port I think), where you were a little blue guy in a spaceship who had to go round picking stuff up and using it. Its gimmick was that it followed the rules of physics (which was bullshit).

Oh, I forgot to mention the excellent sports games, Microprose Soccer (the forerunner to Sensible Soccer in my head if not in reality) and World Class Rugby.

another good game called Exile (another port I think)

Exile was originally a BBC Micro game. I played it a lot but always ended up getting stuck.

ELITE

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Also:

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Age of Adventure - I played this a lot despite being really crap at the whole RPG concept. Somehow the phrase "WHOSE ARMOR SOFTENS THE BLOW" has been stuck in my head for the past twenty years.

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Microprose Soccer (the forerunner to Sensible Soccer in my head if not in reality)

Exile! I have a version of that for CD32, which I should really dig out.

C64 faves: Jumpman, Pirates!, Delta Patrol, Maniac Mansion, and all the old Infocom adventures, most memorably The Witness, which I could never progress in

Pitfall > all that shit

all the old Infocom adventures

oh i forgot about battletech!
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Wizball, Kickstart II, Bubble Bobble.

yeah california games for sure

Archon, yes! One of the best game concepts ever. Archon II was even better.

Rock Star Ate My Hamster, obv.

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I AM THE WORD WIZARD - WELCOME TO MY CAVE
SPELL "CHDTHK"
IT'S GETTING DAAAAAAARKER

was XONIX on comodore?
that was the best game in the world.

ZORK

Every time I see this thread I get "The Model" by Kraftwerk in my head for some reason.

I am obsessed with playing this sci-fi rpg Wasteland buuut I can't find a good/free/working emulator:

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Wasteland uses a skill and attribute based system, periodically giving a character 'points' to use on attributes and skills, as well as having skills increase through use. But moreover, the character development doesn't stop when you use up the points - many places in Wasteland allow a character to separate from the rest of the party and engage in some solo activity - maybe hooking up with a prostitute, or venturing into a cat-and-mouse game within the mind of an android.

http://www.viceteam.org/

disclaimer: I never owned a C64 back in the day, but VICE seems to be the best C64 emulator

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Yeah Vice is the one I'm using. Can't get it working properly on my comp. Cuz I'm using WinXP X64 maybe..? Bah.

Not much 'hilarity' imo, but kinda makes me wanna play.

Never had one, but now I'm the "Last replier" to all five top threads on "New Answers"

Bahhh, got it working but it's super sluggish / unresponsive. Hit key. Wait. Wait. Response. Hit key, etc. Sounds fucked. IIII dunno what's goin on.

"Sound's"

I didn't see it posted anywhere upthread, but there's a place to play a lot of these games online. A lot of them don't work well (or at all), but it's worth it for those that do.

CCS64 works okay for me, but they've changed it recently to fit into Windows and for some reason the menu system seems a bit fucked.

i liked this dumb BC game (BC, the comic strip, which eventually went all born again)

See my posts above ...

LOTUS ESPRIT TURBO CHALLENGE

greatest disappointment i ever had, gaming-wise, was buying turrican 2 from a local department store, then checking the box as i was walking out of the place and finding there was no disk in the box!!

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A friend had this. Even 20-something years later, I still get the annoying theme tune stuck in my head.

Sentinel (took a long time before I worked out how to play this), Paradroid, Armalyte. But for some reason I always got hopelessly infatuated with the shittiest games - Flip and Flop for example. With the Kangaroo and Monkey and a very annoying sound whenever you moved. Which was a lot.

Nebulus was AMAZING. As was Gridrunner.

I remember playing Quasimodo to death. It was a platformer which bore little relation to Dumas, and had lots of throwing boulders at frenchmen.

I still get the annoying theme tune stuck in my head

Oh, thanks.

It was a platformer which bore little relation to Dumas

lol. wonder if there's a market for faithful literary adaptations.

Rambo

no, Frogger 64

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Played this for hours on my uncle's C128 when I was 7 or 8.

There was an NES version of that right?