Remember the Commodore 64?

[Scarpozzi]

My dad used to work for Sperry (before and after they changed to Unisys). They were going through layoffs so he and a few buddies started a Commodore repair center. I had stacks of Vic20s, C64s. He had an Amiga 500 in his shop that I got to play with. It was great.

The C64 was amazing for as little memory as it had.

 

[cubby1223]

Action Biker

Glad to see this on the list!

Also, Activision's Fast Tracks

And all of Epyx's olympic games, and also Jumpman.

 

[Rifter]

i would say Elite first, then Space Rogue; Space Rogue was really revolutionary, i cannot believe how undervalued it is. Also Wasteland, Phantasie III, Bards Tale 2, the various AD&D games, Paradroid, Civilization 1 & 2, Defender Of The Crown, Dungeon Master, ermm.. thats it.

paradroid OMFG i forgot about that game, it was amazing!

 

[nakedfrog]

ZOMG - HHGG - I NEVER got out of the starting bedroom, LOL. HHGG was my ONLY game I believe on the C64 I never finished (or got off home plate, LOL). If ya finished it (w/o reading ahead or cheating) - my hats off to you! Loved to INFOCOM games - was just too cerebral for me during my young ages...

Never finished HHGTTG--could only get as far as the bulldozer until I finally read the book :lol:
But I never managed to get the babel fish in my ear in the game.
Later in life, I played again and looked up the solution for that, and then got stuck on the Heart of Gold, and decided I was just done!

 

[Thebobo]

Timely article on the birth of the C=64 just came out a couple of days ago.

Turns out, the leader of the Commodore 64 engineering team retired to Yorktown

YORKTOWN
It can’t get a senior discount, but it might as well be ancient history.
The nearly 35-year-old hunk of machinery that emerged from a cardboard box in a Yorktown home, though, was ready.

It said so right on the screen.

With 64 kilobytes of memory, the 8-bit Commodore 64 computer is an elder statesman of the tech world – eager to prove its worth but unable to do a sliver of what the latest smartwatch can do.

Rest of article

 

[DigDog]

few games more i remembered .. Autoduel ... some post-apocalyptic RPG game whose name i don't remember, where you had a gang of survivors on trucks, cars, schoolbuses, and you needed to find a nuke to defuse, you looted gas and resources and crew in a way similar to pirates .. and Movie Monsters, which in playability, it was garbage, but the intro was so cool i would easily forgive it.

EDIT: the game was Roadwar 2000. crap graphics but great playability. Also, Mines Of Titan (my version was called Mars Saga, which AFAIK had some major bugs in it).

and then there was a sci-fi RPG, where you had a crew and spaceship, but combat was similar to Bards Tale; i remember you could intimidate enemies to win without fighting, and the bigger your gun, the more you intimidated, and the last gun was called something like Panzerfaust. You would discover in the end a message in space which gave you coordinates to find an alien queen .. whoops, spoilers.

 

[PianoMan]

I vaguely remember Roadwar, but Mines of Titan doesn't ring a bell. As for the last sci-fi RPG; the Bards Tale combat sounds intriguing in a sci-fi setting - although I've never heard of it.

Here's one I had to search for a long time - I couldn't remember the name, and trust me - searching for "C64" and "Castle" on Google for a computer game wasn't a very specific search.

Castles of Dr. Creep - and I just found out right now it's on Steam...

 

[Fritzo]

I still have mine, and it still works (along with a 1541 floppy drive). That little guy was responsible for my career

10 ? "C-64 ROCKS!!!"
20 GOTO 10

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My favorite game was an obscure SSI title called Cosmic Balance. It was basically a computer version of the StarFleet Battles board game, and if you got a few people over it could kill an entire evening. You'd design ships, then take them into a turn based battle. Each player would have a turn to plot the course and firing pattern of up to 4 ships, then at the end you would play out the round. It was mostly text based, but it was REALLY fun. Found a clip of it for the Apple II here: